Looking for Art

[Sassafras]

projects/activities/ideas for third graders. I have googled this topic and have found nothing that looks interesting. If you have any good websites please share them.

Thanks

[javamomma]

Here are a few of my favorites:

**desert landscape picture: Water color with oranges, reds, and pinks (Becomes background, sunset). Let picture dry overnight. Next day use black construction paper to cut out cactus, mountains, ect. Glue over the water color.

**Out line a picture with heavy crayon and water color inside the lines. (Usually do this in spring with flowers, butterflies, ect.)

**Chalk pictures of pumpkins. Draw picture then use elmers glue to outline. Then fill in with chalk.

[dolmansaxlil]

When I taught third grade art last year, I had a LOT of success with my kids. I did something similar to the desert scene suggested, but I did it at Hallowe'en.

I did kind of a fun project where I gave them a couple templates that looked like large jars (I had several different shapes). They they had to fill the jar with something impossible. The other grade 3 teacher did the same project this year, but covered some social studies curriculum by making them choose either a rural or urban scene. Another teacher did "What do you see out your window", where they had decorative window templates that they had to fill with a natural scene.

When they were covering symmetry in math I had them fold their papers in half, then draw half of a symmetrical object in pencil on one side of the fold. They then traced over the pencil with black crayon. I folded the papers and ironed them (use a cloth over top!). The crayon made the design on the other side. They then filled it with chalk pastel.

I'm in Canada, so around Remembrance Day, we did a Georgia O'Keefe inspired poppy. It was really easy to show them how to draw a poppy so the petals went off the page like O'Keefe did. I then showed them how to blend oil pastels. These were stunning when completed.

To introduce the elements of design, I did up centres. I took 6x6" squares of paper, and folded each into fours. At each centre, they had to do a specific element of design. So for line, they filled 1/4 of the paper with vertical lines, one with horizontal, and one with diagonal. I had them do thin and thick, dotted and solid, etc. In the fourth quarter, they wrote "Line". I brought in texture plates and other things to create texture with crayons, and they had to show a different texture in each square (Again, Texture was printed in the fourth square). I also had an art appreciation centre where they had two posters of famous art works. They had to write what was similar about them in one square, what was different in square two, which was their favourite and why in square three. It was a great way to introduce the elements, and the kids really enjoyed it. I had a couple of other centres, but they're escaping me right now.

We did a colour wheel. They had a large sheet of fingerpainting paper folded into 12 squares. They used fingerpaint to fill a square with red, one with yellow, and one with blue. They added texture with a variety of objects I brought in. Then I guided them through mixing to get orange, yellow-orange, and red-orange, as well as the other colour wheel colours. I then gave them templates to choose from, and they cut out their shape from each colour and we arranged them in the colour wheel on black paper.

[Sassafras]

Those are great ideas. I can use the chalk drawing outlined in glue with a bio-poem and have them draw a picture of themselves. I love the Georgia O'Keefe Poppy picture too.

I'm loking for ways to tie art into poetry writing. Last year I used my digital camara a lot. I thought about using a photo of each child, cutting it in half, then have the students draw the other half.

[Sassafras]

http://www.angelfire.com/stars3/education/art.html

Lots of good ideas.

[sjk]

I also use the sunset/sunrise pictures. These are really effective.

Sketches of apples in series - a whole apple, an apple with a bite out of it, an apple with two bites, then the apple core - can just do straight pencil sketching or painting/pastel also looks good.

http://www.hitentertainment.com/artattack/

has lots of ideas

Paper mache vases - using balloons, paint and varnish

[landreth2007]

To create a "snow" picture have the students watercolor the entire sheet of paper blue. While the paper is still wet, sprinkle salt sparingly over the paint. After the paper dries you can brush off the salt to reveal the "snow". Continue to decorate using whatever media you wish.

[aya]

Check out www.ilearntechnology.com it has a link to a site called Artsonia. An online children's art museum, you can get great ideas and put your students work online...so cool!:)