Pinch Pot

 Today, we are making pinch pots out of clay! 

Natural clay comes from the earth. It is made up of fine-grained particles of rock that are broken down over many years and then mixed with water. Clay can be different colors ranging from grey to red-orange, to brown.

The color of the clay depends on the rocks and minerals that it is made of. 

Can you think of things made from clay? 
Flower pots, plates, cups, bowls, sculptures and bricks are all made from clay.

You can make a pinch pot with clay by making a ball, pressing your thumb into the clay and squeezing it between your finger and your thumb.

The only art tool we will need to make our pinch pots is our hands!

Steps to making a pinch pot

Dave the Potter

Pinch Pots

These are Kindergarten pinch pots! 

You can make a pinch pot with clay by making a ball, pressing your thumb into the clay and squeezing it between your finger and your thumb. Many sizes of bowls and vessels can be made by the handbuilding method of pinching clay.  

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Steps to making a pinch pot

For Clay Review-End of Class

K Self Portrait

 Kindergarten Self-Portraits

Instructions Day 1 :

Intro. Video

Demo Video-Drawing a self-portrait:

Draw Face and Trace in Sharpie

Materials:

12x18 white paper

pencil & eraser

Mirror

Sharpie

Intro Video: Self-Portraits

Self-Portrait Demo.

My Favorite Things

 

My Favorite Things

 

I am an Artist-These are a few of my Favorite Things 

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens...

What were some of the children's favorite things?

Artists are inspired by things they like and do. 

Today we are going to be drawing some of our favorite things. 

Supplies:

Large piece of paper

Sharpie or marker

Crayons/markers to color after drawing (optional)

Demo Video

What are your favorite things?
Favorite animal?
Favorite food?

Favorite season?

Favorite insect?

Favorite activity?

Favorite toy?
Favorite game?
Favorite outfit?
Favorite movie character?
Favorite holiday?
Favorite people?

Circle the drawing of your most favorite thing!

Color if you have time!

Share/Reflect: Share your one very favorite thing

Collections

 

Collections

 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. 

How did you decide which pictures to choose for your collection?

Where ARE the Wild Things

 

Where ARE the wild things?

 This week we will read a beloved story, Where The Wild Things Are

This book has inspired children for decades to imagine a magical place full of fantastic creatures.

After reading the story, we will use our imaginations to create our own beasts and monsters.

Supplies:
Paper
Markers & Crayons
Construction paper (red & white)
Glue

Video for instructions

Printmaking

Thinking and Working as Artists-Printmaking

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.

Art is Basic Printmaking

How is printing different than painting?

Can you think of something else you could dip in paint to make a print?

Lines Make Shapes-- PRINTING!

Be a shape detective...
What shapes can you find in these pictures?

How might you print these shapes with the straight line tool? 

Where a Line Bends a Shape Begins 

(Play before shape discussion)

Printing shapes with a straight line tool.

Video of printmaking techniques

1. Demonstrate making basic geometric shapes. 

2. Have students practice first without paint to understand how to place their printing tool.

3. Students may get a second sheet of paper to create their own composition, or they may continue on with their first. 

Supplies:

- Tempera paint

- Paper

- Cardboard pieces

K Shape Friends

 

Kindergarten - Paper Playground

 

 Making a Paper Playground Sculpture:

Today we are going to make a paper sculpture of a playground. Sculpture is three-dimensional. You can see it from many sides because it stands up from the base. 

Think about last time you played on a playground...

What were some of your favorite things to play on?

Materials:

- Paper strips 1" wide

- Base

- Glue stick or Elmer's Glue

photo from RaisingArizonaKids.com

Playgrounds: 

Look for lines and shapes as you watch!

Paper sculpture techniques:

Roll

Accordian Fold 

Fringe

Video for techniques

Paper Play!

 

Artists at Work: Tearing and cutting with paper

  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? 

from Leo Lionni's book Frederick

Paper tearing:

• With the grain
• Against the grain
• Finger position
• Tearing a Line
• Tearing a Shape

Video for tearing and cutting

Cutting Paper

Artists use scissors to change the shape of paper.  

How can you tell that the artist cut these shapes with scissors?
What shapes do you see?

The Snail by Henri Matisse

Cutting Shapes:

• Using Scissors
  -safety-how to hold
  -scissors poem
• Cutting squares, rectangles, and triangles
  -using more than one strategy

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?

Ten Black Dots

 What Can You Make with 10 Black Dots?

        10 Black Dot Book

Video Lesson

Instructions:

1. Glue down between 1and 10 black dots
2. Draw 
3. Color

K - Meet the Crayons!

 

Artists at Work: Crayon

 What can I do with a crayon?

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.

Experiment with Crayon Techniques: Using the tip and side of the crayon, and creating a rubbing using crayon

As artists we will discover many ways to use materials in the art room. 

What is a crayon, and how is it made?

How crayons are Made-Mr. Rogers

How to make a crayon video link

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Let's try some different ways we can 

 use our crayons!

Materials needed:

Crayons

2 or 3 of broken, peeled crayons

2 half sheets of copy paper

Small piece of consruction paper and a few small squares of construction paper

glue stick

Video Lesson

K - We can use natural materials to make art

Materials for making art are all around us!

Some artists make art from natural materials.

What are natural materials? 

Can you tell what natural materials these artists used to make their art?

• Intro, Watch first part of video
• Pass out rocks, students sort rocks
• Video part 2, Students arrange their rocks to create pictures, stories, etc.

    

Reflect/Share:

How did you decide to sort your rocks? 

How did you decide to arrange your rocks?

Reflect/Share:

How did you decide to sort your rocks? 

Did you work alone or with a  partner/ as a table?

How did you decide to arrange your rocks?