Earth Day- Recycled Art

Today is Earth Day! 

Check out these Earth friendly art ideas!

Today are some simple projects you can do by reusing (not consuming) art materials! 

Recycled Robots

Plate Art

Found Object Color Wheels

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New Enrichment Packets

There are new art materials for week 6 & 7! 

Click here for a direct link to the document! 

There are so many ideas! 

Also, if you are in need of technology please fill out this form. 

Technology Needs Survey

Be on the lookout for new projects coming soon! 
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Doodle with Diane Bleck!!

Want to learn how to doodle or improve your doodling skills! Check out doodler and artist Diane Bleck!!

So many fun ideas and activities!

She will be doing a live virtual workshop at 2pm today! 

Head over here to join and make some doodles with her! (scroll to the bottom of page to register!) you can also get the Doodle Days workbook for free! 

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Paper Airplane Challenge!!

Here is a fun challenge for you (and your family!) 

Who can make their plane fly the farthest?

All you need is some paper (junk mail, copy paper, notebook paper-maybe one flies farther than the other?) 

Here's a video to if you need help! 

How to Fold a Airplane

Bonus Challenge-If you have tape, whose plane can fly the farthest with the most coins taped to it? Where is the best place to tape the money?

I think I know what I am doing today!! Don't forget to share your airplanes!

This challenge and handout were from Kids Activities Blog !

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It's World Art Day!

Today is World Art Day!! 

World Art Day is an international celebration of the fine arts, which was declared by the International Association of Art (IAA/AIAP), to promote awareness of creative activity worldwide.
The first World Art Day was held on April 15th, 2012, a date chosen in honor of Leonardo da Vinci's birthday which is also April 15th!! 

Today, create anything you want! It can be of your own creation or you can visit this page and pick an idea from here! 
And hang it up! Show it off! Tell someone about it!
Hang it in a window, on the fridge, on your wall, send a photo to a friend, family member or me!
Let me see those creations!! 

Need some inspiration?

Visit the Vincent Van Gogh Museum and find your favorite artwork! 

Click here to Visit the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam 

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Get Creative on the Couch!

Get Creative from the couch! 

Are you looking for a a ton of ways to make and see art? Well, if you are visiting, I bet you are! 

I can't take credit for this , but a HUGE thanks to Mrs. Velazquez for compiling this. 

Click here to get it!!

This giant list has links (just click the text) for
Art contests
museums
art games
digital art
art education
art at home.

It looks like a huge bingo board if you ask me! Can you get a bingo by visiting all the sites in a horizontal row, vertical row, or diagonal row?

And do forget to email me your creations, or use hashtag #flsart on social media!
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Earth Day Week!! Day 1

Earth day is coming up! 

So I am creating a series of projects that help the earth and recycle materials! 

That means you can find most of these art materials in your house! 

What is Earth Day?

Check out Annie and Moby as they talk about Reducing, Reusing and Recycling

Recycling with Annie and Moby!!

Contact me at mgorham@oswego.org if you need the Brainpop login! 

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Art for Kids Hub Reminder!

Just a reminder to check out Art for Kids Hub if you are bored! They have so many videos on their website and are always posting new ones!

Parents, have no fear! I highly recommend them! They also can be found on You Tube Kids (ad free!) 

Art For Kids Hub!!

A student favorite! I use this as a reward, for my early finishers and get asked is it Art Hub day often? This father will draw along side his children demonstrating the art elements and principles of design. They usually color their projects, but that is not needed. They also draw with sharpies (easy to see when recording) so don't feel like you need one of those either!  There are several topics and something for everyone and age on this. THIS IS A YOU TUBE CHANNEL!! So beware of random ads. You can add the channel to Kids You Tube and get it ad free-which I highly recommend. 

Art for Kids Hub You Tube Channel

Their blog has embedded videos with you tube ads but children can't navigate to other suggested videos. Click here to see their blog

Click here to visit their website and choose how to view

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What to do with....chalk!!

Do you have sidewalk chalk?

Besides drawing on sidewalks, you can also draw on other materials!! 

This one will be a little messy, so make sure you ask and adult first! 

You will need a white crayon, some paper and chalks. You can modify this and use whatever you have lying around (think of the blank side of a cardboard box, inside of a cereal box-if you had paint you could paint the cardboard, and work on it when its dry!). Those would make awesome backgrounds! 

If your internet is limited, or you only have pencil and paper 

download Jenny's owl how to sheet (or screen shot it) to help you

Jenny K's how to sheet draw an owl

Now that the sun is out you can get outside with your chalk and have it last more than a day! 

I love this colorful and easy idea with sidewalk chalk and painters tape (or any tape!) 

I love the color and geometric shapes! 

You couldn't even practice your tints and shades!! 

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Patterned Eggs!!

This week, make a patterned egg and post it in your window! There are walking egg hunts happening. This means, while you are out on a walk, you can try to spot the eggs in windows of houses in your neighborhood! 

Here is an egg to print and color.

Printable Egg 

No Printer? No Problem, you can draw one (or hold your paper to the screen you are using and trace it)

Let's take a minute to talk about patterns!

Patterns are designs that repeat!

You can add different types of lines

And then add alternating shapes to make a pattern

Have fun! Use what materials you have around the house! 

Try putting rows of patterns
I have

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Shaving Cream Marbling!!

Today we are going to do a messy one! 

BUT the results are amazing!

Shaving cream marbling is a fun way to add beautiful swirly designs to paper. 

 Here's what you need:

Shaving Cream

Paint- ( I used finger paint) but acrylic paint, watercolor paint , even food dye

Pen to write your name on paper

Paper (I did half a sheet of 9x12 paper)

Cardboard scrap to scrape shaving cream

Spray some shaving cream about the size of your paper.

 Flatten and smooth it with the cardboard 

Stick with analogous colors (colors next to each other on the color wheel)

Put a few drops of color on the shaving cream.

 Swirl (with your finger, or a fork)

Gently press your paper onto the shaving cream. 

 Pick up your paper, and flip it over, use the cardboard to scrape off the extra shaving cream. (you can add the used shaving cream back to your pile and reuse it over and over again! 

REVEAL!! 

Look at those beautiful swirls!! 

Now you can make something with this! Bookmarks, draw something on top of it. 

Tomorrow I will be posting an egg project that these would be perfect for! 

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New Art Materials for Weeks 4 & 5!!

There are new art materials for week 4 & 5! 

Click here for a direct link to the document! 

There are so many ideas! 

Also, if you are in need of technology please fill out this form. 

Technology Needs Survey

Be on the lookout for new projects coming soon! 

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Robot Week- Robot Sculptures!

It's our final day of Robot Week !!

Today you are going to use items you have around your house to create a robot ! 

You can use:

Legos

Blocks

boxes

cans

Clean recycled items

Paper

Markers

Whatever you can find! 

I would love to see what you come up with! 

Email them to me! 

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Robot Week- Foil Robot

Here is another project you can do with your cardboard robot from this week!

Foil Robot

You will need:

Cardboard robot (click here for project) 

Liquid glue 

or 

Paint

Paintbrush
Piece of tin foil

Robot Week- Robot Rubbings and Prints

Today we are going to take our cardboard robot from yesterday and do two different things with it! 

No robot (check out the project here) 

Crayon Rubbing

You will need :

 copy paper (the back of junk mail works too!)
peeled crayon
*Place crayons in a cup with warm water, paper will come right off!!**