Week 11: Holiday Greeting Cards

December 20, 2009

With this the last class before the winter break, we will make holiday greeting cards.

Sources:
http://michaels.com/art/online/projectsheet?pid=j00540&categoryid=64583
http://michaels.com/art/online/projectsheet?pid=h00189&categoryid=64583
http://michaels.com/art/online/projectsheet?pid=h00144&categoryid=64583

Materials Needed:

Scissors

Glue

Straight and circle cutters
Card stock (various colors)
Ribbons
Vellum
Inks
Stamps
Embossing Powder
Embossing Gun
Hole Punch
Brads

Week 10: Dal Art

December 5, 2009

Art Class: Dal Art

Using some of the staple legumes in Indian diet, lentils, we will use our imaginations to create design mosaics in earth tones: landscapes, portraits, motifs of cars or flowers?

Materials Needed:

Pencils for sketching in the design Cardboard rectangles

Glue

Various legumes

Sources:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5155710_create-bean-art-kids.html
http://www.marthastewart.com/article/magical-beans-mosaic

Week 9: Thankfulness Scratch Art

November 21, 2009
Art Class

With Thanksgiving less than a week away, it seems fitting to center today's creations on things we are thankful for.

We will use a technique I used to love when I was a kid involving bright colors overlaid with black crayon, after which the design is scratched off--Fun!

Sources:
my memory
http://www.kidsart.com/q010100.html

Materials:
paper
crayons
toothpicks

Week 8: "Fabric" Dying

Date: November 14, 2009

Lesson Title: "Fabric" Dying
Subject: Art


Activities and lesson notes:
The dying of fabric is an ancient art of India. After a short discussion of that art, we will do our own dying, by using markers and wet wipes and rubber bands. We will then incorporate the dyed "fabric" into a bookmark design.


Sources:
http://www.indiaenvironmentalportal.org.in/node/3038
http://www.kinderart.com/painting/tiedye1.shtml/
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/art/tieanddie.htm
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/51570/bandhani-work
http://www.indiasite.com/arts/bandhani.html

Materials needed:
wet wipes
rubber bands
plastic gloves
markers
cardstock
ribbon
hole punch
glue

Week 7: Watercolor Peacocks

Date: November 7, 2009

Lesson Title: Watercolor Peacocks
Subject: Art

Activities and lesson notes:

The kids have been excited to use the watercolors in my box, so we brought them out today to use to depict the vibrantly colored national bird of India, the peacock.

Materials needed:

watercolor paper
pencils
sharpener
paint
water
paper towels.

Week 6: Creating Masks

October 31, 2009

Since it is Halloween, we will decorate, and cut out some pre-printed (or create our own) masks. There will be animals, Kathakali style, Indian lady or guy, animals, butterflies... It will be fun to see how the creations look in the end!

Materials needed:
Cardstock
Scissors
Glitter
Markers/crayons/colored pencils
hole punch
string

Sources:
http://www.freefunfings.com/masks/pages/animal.html
Really great resource!!!
http://www.pitara.com/activities/colouring/17.htm

Week 5: Rangoli

Date: October 10, 2009

Lesson Title: Rangoli

Subject: Art

Activities and lesson notes:

After a short discussion

- of the traditional art of rangoli in India (when, where and by whom—and have they ever seen it or know someone who does it?)

- asking to keep the artwork to display at the 10/24 Diwali celebration (no class next week)

- reminding to handle chalk carefully or it will break and to work left to right and top to bottom so as not to smudge (reverse for lefties)...

We will create our own rangoli, in a slightly non-traditional way. We'll use pressed chalk sticks and black construction paper for our designs, and map them out before hand with pencil on paper with a grid of dots.

Sources:

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/rangoli.htm

http://www.diwalifestival.org/diwali-rangoli.html

http://www.4to40.com/activities/artcraft/index.asp?article=activities_artcraft_rangoli1

http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/art/rangoli.htm

Materials needed:

white paper with gridwork of dots

pencils

black construction paper with gridwork of dots

chalks

cleanup bin

music (of course)

Week 4: Portrait Drawing

Date: October 3, 2009

Lesson Title: Portrait Drawing-- Model: Mahatma Gandhi
Subject: Art

Activities and lesson notes:
In honor of Gandhi Jayanti, we'll try our hand at producing portraits using gridwork to guide our strokes, and using pen and ink drawings of Gandhiji for our model

Sources:
http://www.4to40.com/coloring_designs_patterns/index.asp?category=Coloring_Book&keywords=Gandhi

Materials needed:
Blank gridwork sheets
pen and ink printouts of Gandhi's image with gridwork superimposed
pencils
erasers
crayons as desired
background music (always better to draw with music)

Week 3: Kandil

Date: September 26
Lesson Title: Kandil Making
Subject: Art

Activities and lesson notes:
In anticipation and preparation for Diwali, we will make lanterns.

Sources (websites, books used, etc.):

http://www.balagokulam.org/kids/arts/kandil.php
http://specials.rediff.com/getahead/2007/nov/05slide1.htm
http://www.thetoymaker.com/Holidays/Diwali/Rangoli1.pdf
http://purpletrail.com/partytrail/holiday_parties/diwali/diwali-decorations

Materials needed (markers, scissors, etc.):
variety of colors and textures of paper
glue/tape
string
hole punch
scissors

** Thank you for your patience as the teacher grows accustomed to the needs of a class of this size and this age range!! Today's kandil making class was somewhat chaotic, but taught much about how to approach such an undertaking in future :). **

Week 2: Mandalas

Date: September 19, 2009
Lesson Title: Geometric Mandalas
Subject: Art

Activities and lesson notes:

- Tell a little bit about mandalas and what they represent. Also how they can be created in their geometric forms.
- Show examples of geometric mandalas.
- Let them choose either a pre-printed mandala to color in themselves, or a blank page to create their own.

Sources : http://www.exoticindiaart.mandala.htm
http://www.mandalaproject.org/What/Index.html
http://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/detail/mandala-geometry-lesson-plan/
http://www.wikihow.com/Draw-a-Mandala

Materials needed (markers, scissors, etc.):
Paper
Pre-printed sheets
Markers, Colored Pencils, Crayons

Pencil Sharpener
Rulers
Circle forms to copy (plastic lids etc)

Compass

Week 1 Self-Portrait Mural

Date: September 12, 2009
Lesson Title: Self-portrait Mural
Subject: Art

Activities and lesson notes:
1. Introductions--Teacher and background in art
Students and their favorite way to express creatively
2. Brainstorm--Art, where do we find it? US? India?
3. Using pencils, create outline of students on mural.
4. Ask students to use markers to draw on clothes, jewelry, face, etc--to tell the story of who they are, what they like, and so on.
5. In closing minutes of class, discuss what they created, and ask them to place a star on the area of India where they have family.

Sources: none
Materials needed: roll of white paper, tape, markers, pencils
Prep required: create teacher self portrait for example and outline India on roll