Activity #1 April 6 - April 10 |
See Video below for Instructions |
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Ahoy, Mateys!!!
Shiver Me Timbers ~ It's Pirate Week!!! Please watch our short video and create a Pirate Self Portrait. Draw yourself wearing your best pirate gear. You can draw your ship and your crew with your own flag and your pirate loot. Add your pirate name using the Pirate Name Sheet (click here). I also added my examples for inspiration. If you finish early, get outside and go on a Pirate Adventure!!! Yo Ho Ho...I can't wait to see your Pirate Treasures. Email them to me! Aaaaarrrrrggghhh!!!! All hands on deck! Love, Mrs. Fuller AKA Rapscallion O'Patches |
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Activity #2 April 13 - April 17For your next ART Activity we are travelling back in time...WAY Back!!!! We are starting about FIVE THOUSAND years ago in Ancient Egypt.
Ancient Egypt was one of the greatest and most powerful civilizations in the history of the world. It lasted for over 3,000 years from 3150 BC to 30 BC. The civilization of Ancient Egypt was located along the Nile River in northeast Africa. Daily life revolved around religion. The land was filled with temples. A strong belief in the afterlife led the people to build pyramids as tombs for their pharaohs. Wealthy important Egyptians were buried in the pyramids. All people prepared for the afterlife as they preserved, or mummified their dead relatives. The tombs were filled with objects for the dead to use in the afterlife. Tutankhamun or "King Tut" is probably the most well-known Egyptian pharaoh. He lived around 1341 to 1323 BC and was only 10 years old when he became a pharaoh. He was called the boy king and ruled until he died at the age of 19. Inside King Tut's tomb they discovered 5,000 items, including his gold sarcophagus, or burial box for the mummy. See Downloads below for step by step tutorials. You can draw the pyramids or King Tut's Sarcophagus and don't forget to EMAIL ME your finished Art Work! |
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Activity #3 April 20 - April 24We are still heading way back in time to Ancient Egypt. We are going to try our hand at Egyptian picture writing or Hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics is an ancient writing system that uses pictures and symbols instead of letters and words. It is most often associated with the ancient Egyptians. Each symbol in hieroglyphics writing is called a hieroglyph.
Let's write your name in Hieroglyphics and create a Cartouche!!!! A cartouche is your hieroglyphic name drawn inside an oval. It was meant to protect the pharaohs from evil spirits in life and after death. A cartouche was written on tombs, but could also be worn as an amulet, to protect the pharaoh and bring good luck. Attached is your hieroglyph sheet to find your name and draw it inside an oval. Create your Cartouche and send me a picture of you holding it. 
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Learn about Hieroglyphics below.
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Bonus Earth Day Activity
Wednesday, April 22nd, is Earth Day. In honor of Earth Day, I included a drawing tutorial, my Earth Day message, and a few coloring sheets. You can create using what is provided or make your own imaginative recycled art. It is completely up to you!!! Snap a photo of you with the Love Our Earth theme and send it to me to share with our DRA family.
Activity #4 April 27 - May 1These times of Social Distancing has me thinking about the changes a butterfly goes through. For this week of Distance Learning, let's stick with our Earth Day theme and create some butterfly inspired Nature Art. You can do one of the attached drawings to create your art or work on the attached symmetry handout. Your butterfly can be made using chalk, pencil, paint, or items you find in nature. Get creative!!! If drawing a butterfly isn't your thing, create a chrysalis. I have also attached a butterfly life cycle diagram.
Butterflies are perfectly symmetrical, which means the same on both sides. Butterflies have bilateral symmetry. This means that if you drew a line through the middle of a butterfly's body, you could fold one wing on top of the other and they are exactly the same!!! You can create your butterfly by folding a paper in half and creating half a butterfly along the fold. Once cut out you will have two equal size wings! Use the attached directed drawing to create your wing pattern or get creative with printmaking. |
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Bonus Mother's Day ActivityApril showers bring May flowers they say. So let's kick off May by creating our own flower bouquets!
Mother's Day is Sunday, May 10th!!! Let's create one of the attached flower bouquets or vase drawings for Mom. We start off our ART lesson by choosing one of the attached flower bouquets or vase lessons to create. Last week we learned about symmetry in nature. Most vases are symmetrical, the same on both sides. You can simply color one of the attached pictures or draw your own. You can color or paint or use paper to cut out your art. Use real dried flowers to glue into your vase or make some out of tissue paper or recycled objects. You are the artist. It is your choice. 
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Activity #5 May 4 - May 8Welcome to the Jungle!
Let's take a quick look at artist Henri Rousseau (1844-1910). Rousseau was a post-Impressionist painter. He worked as a saxophonist and toll collector before beginning to paint at age 40. He was a self-taught artist and created many jungle inspired scenes despite never visiting a jungle in person. Some critics ridiculed him for his style, but he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius. This is a two week lesson, so this week we will begin by creating a drawing of an animal found in the jungle or rain forest. The rain forest is a world like no other. These tall, dense, wet and warm forests are said to be the oldest living ecosystem on earth. There are approximately 10 million species of animals, plants and insects known to man and more than half of them call the rain forest home. See the step-by-step tutorials on how to draw a few of these animals. Choose what you want to create and follow the instructions. If your heart is set on a particular animal, please draw it, color it, and send it to me. Next week we are going to take our animals and collage them into a jungle scene. Please do not throw away your animal drawings!!! We will need them for creating our completed jungle scene collage. |
See Henri Rousseau's paintings below.
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Activity #6 May 11 - May 15
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Welcome to the Jungle my friends!
I hope all my artists kept their animal drawings from last week because this week we will finish our jungles by creating a collage. A collage is a piece of art made by sticking various materials such as photographs and/or pieces of paper, fabric, or found objects on a backing. I incorporated nature into my examples!!! |
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We cut out the animals we drew last week and then glued them onto another sheet of paper. We then took a nature walk and found different leaves and flowers and moss to add to our jungles. You can add leaves from your yard or draw them onto paper and then color, cut and add to your collage. The choice is yours.
Feel free to use the step-by-step animal drawing as well. >> Choose what you like and get creative in your collage making. |
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Activity #7 May 18 - May 22
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This is it DRA...our last ART Assignment for this school year. This week we are taking our art skills outside.
Let's get out and create some nature art. One of my favorite assignments this year with my older students was your MANDALAS!!! Mandala means both circle and center in sanskrit. A mandala is a sacred space, often a circle, which reveals inner truth about you and the world around you. A mandala has radial symmetry. This means it is the same all the way around and if you divide it up like a pie, it will have equal parts. I have included some amazing nature mandalas to inspire you. For my younger artists I have also included some amazing nature art for inspiration. If a mandala is too difficult, try to write your name with things you find in nature. You can even try to make a portrait of yourself or your family with objects you find outside.
Artists, let's get outdoors!!! Make this last art project your best. As always, please email me your creations! You all have worked so hard this year and you have truly made many many masterpieces. I am one proud ART TEACHER!!! This week I plan to get all your artwork at school taken down, packed up and returned to the wonderful artist that created it. Please stay tuned for artwork pickup. Love, Grace, and Happy Creating, Mrs. Fuller |
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