Water Colors and Lei Making

With this project we learned how to make Lei's and different techniques for water coloring. The different techniques are dry brush, wet on wet, blend, and crayon resist. 

To make the lei's we started off with tracing or drawing flowers on construction paper. After we had 24 flowers cut out we started to string them. We first strung a flower and then a small cut piece of straw in between each flower. We continued to do so until our string was full. 

An extension of this could be in science or geography.You could study the different types of flower in Hawaii and the parts of the flowers. 

3-D Art

This was project was teaching 3-D design. We made this piece by cutting or ripping paper and making folds, swirls, circles or any design we could think of and gluing it outwards on a piece of paper. The teacher at first read "All the Places You Will Go" by Dr. Seuss for motivation and for us to see good example of 3-D looking pictures. 

We were required to have 3 different folds and at least 8 piece of paper on our art. We were also told to name our place. I named mine Hil-Villie

A extension of this activity would be in English to have you students create a story about their artwork. They would think of their artwork as a town, since we had to name it, and write about why it was like that. 

Coil Pots

This project was about coil pots. We started off with a ball of clay, and worked all the air bubbles out of it. After that we too a section and made a small circular disc for the bottom. After we had made the bottom we started of by making coils. We did this by rolling a section out with our hands till it was long and tubular. After we had a coil made we circled the outside of disc with the coil. We repeated the coil making process and staked them on top of each other until we ran out of clay. 

On our pots we were required to have a couple of things; a symbol that has meaning in out culture, a primary, and a secondary color. I used a cross, blue, and green to meet those objectives.

An extension of this would be to have you student research different way clay pots are made. You would have them in groups and they each would make a pot and present how to do it to the class. It could be done as a step by step speech or in art class.

Stamping

This art project was about stamping. To do this project we first started out carving designs into a rectangle piece of stryofoam. We then used rollers and rolled ink over the piece of foam. We then pressed the template into colored paper. We did a railroad theme so we made railroad cars out of the rectangular stamps. We then drew in a background and setting.

An extension of this activity would be to have your students do a research activity on stamping and it history and make a poster about it to share with the class. 

Marbling

This art project was all about marbling. To do this project we started out with drawing a picture and outlining it with a permanent marker.After that we cut it out. We used a theme of famous place around the world. We then sprayed shaving cream in tubs and splattered paint on top of the shaving cream. We mixed and designed the shaving cream then into patterns then place our drawing face down into the mixture.  After we took our picture off the mixture we scraped the shaving cream and paint off.  

An extension of this activity would be to have your students make a poster about there drawing and place it was located. For example mine picture was on the Leaning Tower of Pisa so I would make a poster with details about the Leaning Tower.

Macrame

This project is done to introduce student to Macrame. Their are many different types of Macrame, in this project we made key chains out of hemp. We each were suppose to put at least three beads on the key chain and have it at least three inches long. 

An extension activity could be done in history. Student could come up with a presentation on the history of Macrame and different ways it is used. 

Warm and Cool Colors, Puzzle Pieces

To start off this project the class was split into to sections, warm and cool colors. The warm colors could choose to draw a duck or fox and the cool colors could choose to draw a fish or frog. Once we drew our animal, we had to give it texture of some sort.  For the background, we either had to do lines, patterns, or shapes.

An extension of this project could be for science. When you are talking about warm and cold blooded animals, you could related them back to warm and cool colors, to help remember or to explain that the warm blooded animals are to be drawn in warm colors, and the same for cold blooded animals.