Lines and Complementary Colors

This lesson is for a first grade classroom.This lesson talked about lines, patterns and complementary colors. First we started off with drawing thick and thin horizontal lines with our warm complementary color. After that dried, we made vertical lines with our cool complementary colors. After it all dried we cut out the shapes we need to use to make a bunny.

An extension of this activity could be used in math class when talking about lines. You could measure lines, compare thick and thin lines like in the plaid pattern.lines, and talk about were lines go.

Blind Drawing

This activity was done to introduce drawing in a fun way. We did this with blind drawing. We had the student put blinders on a white crayon. The students then drew three flowers on their paper. Next we had the students wet their paper with a paint brush and water. Then the students used watercolors and painted their whole paper. Were they drew their three flower the paint resisted the watercolors. This is what the finished product would looked like:

Our bulletin board with students finished projects

An extension activity of this would be in science class to be studying the parts of a flower. The could draw and label the parts on their own flower.  

Cool and Warm Colors

This project was done to introduce students to warm and cool colors. This project is called a hidden drawing. The picture is hidden, and you need special glasses to see the picture.The project is done by drawing a picture in a light cool color. We used a light sky blue color. Our theme was a hidden safari, so we all drew pictures of safari animals. After we were done with the drawing we drew over the picture with warm colors like reds, oranges, and yellows. We drew over the picture in shapes in a pattern form to hide the drawing. We also wrote three clues to be displayed with our animals for people to guess. 

 An extension activity to be down with this is to have your students write a creative writing story about their animal. Their writings then would be displayed with their drawing. 

Eric Carle

This art project was done in the same style of which Eric Carle uses to create the pictures in his books. Some of Eric Carle's book are; The Very Hungry Caterpillar,Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?,The Tiny Seed, and The Mixed-Up Chameleon, just to name a few.

We did this project by first making our papers wich we painted with many different colors and added texture too. We then let the paper dry, and once dried we cut out the setting, and charaters for our book page.  In this project my setting is at a ocean with the bird flying to tell his friend the dolphin that a storm is coming. We then glued down the setting onto construction paper and narrated the story.

This extesnion activity could be used for any grade. The this project would be to have your students make a whole story book out of their pictures. The student would each recreate anoter picture but this time would not narrate the story on the picture. The teacher would place all of the picture so the class could see them and the class would then write out a story together, then write it on the pictures. The teacher would then bind it together and it would become a class book.