A collection is a group of things.
What kinds of things do people collect?
Why do people have collections?
Today you will make a collage. You will cut pictures out of magazines to make a collection of your own.
We Belong Together
Create | 2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. | A. Skill Acquisition | Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design. |
Last week we started exploring how artists get ideas.
We spent some time looking at flowers, leaves and birds, because artists look more closely at things than most people do.
Another way artists get ideas are finding beauty in everyday things and situations. Like the people who are important to them.
All people have other people they are close to and care about.
As artists we share our lives with others.
Our memories?
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| Me and My PaPa Snuggling |
Who we are and what makes us special?
Our family and friends?
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| Me with my cousins at the waterpark |
Review
Big Ideas
1. All people have others they are close too and care about.
2. As artists we can share ourselves and our feelings for others.
William Johnson. Art Class
People enjoy spending time with their friends.
Today you might choose to make artwork about one of your friends.
What do you like to do with your friend?
What do you know about your friend?
Can you make a portrait of your friend by remembering what they look like?
Remember a portrait is a picture of a person.
Create | 1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. | A. Play & Ideation | Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials |
B. Investigation | Use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art. |
A collage is made by cutting up, arranging, and gluing down materials such as paper, string, fabric, and newspaper.
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"Coller is a French word, that means to glue something together, so it makes sense that a collage is when you glue materials to a flat surface.
In collage you can use many different materials to make something new!
Materials needed:
White Paper for background
Colored Construction Paper
Pencil
Scissors
Glue Stick
Crayons or Markers (optional)
Watch this video for our collage lesson
This week we will practice making our own collage.
You can make a collage of anything you want.
Click on the link below for your grade level skills.
Paper Play!
Create | 1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. | A. Play & Ideation | Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials |
Create | 2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. | A. Skill Acquisition | Through experimentation on, build skills in various media and approaches to art making. |
Tearing Paper
Artists sometimes use their hands to tear paper.
What kind of shapes do you see?
Why do you think this artist used torn shapes?
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| from Leo Lionni's book Frederick |
Paper tearing:
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| The Snail by Henri Matisse Cutting Shapes:
 Arranging Shapes: What will you think about as you arrange your shapes? Try several arrangements  Dog made by Kindergarten student Share Time/Reflection: What two ways can you make shapes with paper? What kind of shapes can you make by tearing? cutting? Which method to you enjoy most? |
What Can You Make with 10 Black Dots?
10 Black Dot Book
