Inspired by artist Jeff Koons, 2nd grade students created a balloon dog by combining ovals of different sizes. We started class by working on a quick write, pair share and class discussion as students looked at the "hook" I had displayed on the screen with prompts to get them thinking.These activities are a great way for me to get a feel for what students are noticing and a fantastic way to have them see the word wall, visual supports and use art vocabulary.
We practiced creating values with color sticks to give them a sense of how much pressure they needed to add to create values dark to medium to light. Students combined 7 ovals by drawing with their pencil first and then picked a color of their choice for their balloon dog. They added different values and created a background to complete their works.
3rd grade worked on creating polymer clay miniature mushrooms inspired by Yayoi Kusama. This medium was new to us and we spent time discussing how it feels, how it is different from regular clay and what we need to do to make it soft and workable. I gave students chunks of primary color clay and we mixed it to get secondary colors. - a great way to talk about color mixing! We looked at the 3 parts of a real mushroom and used a different color for each of the 3 parts. After practicing drawing textures on paper, we added textures on the mushroom using toothpicks, popsicle sticks, dots and spirals. I baked each piece after class in the polymer clay oven to make them hard and permanent. There was so much excitement as students received their mushroom back!
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