Saturday, November 16, 2013

Pop Art Popsicles with Kindergarten

So, I never use popsicle sticks, but I finally found a project that allows me to use them that isn't rinky-dink!

Day One: We learned how to mix primary colors together to make secondary colors...
I had them fold their paper in half a couple of times to make 8 boxes. They painted the primary colors first, then we mixed them together to fill the other boxes. They had 2 extra boxes they could paint a color or pattern of their choice in.



Here's a modification I made for one our students with special needs.



 
Day Two: Making Popsicles!
 
I started by telling the kids we were going to cut up our paintings from last week....the sheer looks of terror I got....

We drew a simple "U" shaped popsicle in each box. Some of my art challenges were to draw one with a bite taken out, one that was melting...etc.



We added shadows to each popsicle and a little white highlight. I think they understood what we were doing....haha. I explained that popsicles are frozen and ice is shiny, so to show that texture we needed a little reflection of light. Maybe that stuck with some of them...who knows, but they did it and their popsicles look awesome!





2 comments:

  1. These turned out great!!! Terrific shading. Your story reminds me of a time a couple of years ago where I asked 3rd or 4th graders to cut their paintings into fourths and trade all but one of their fourths with others in their groups (groups of 4 kids). One boy was absolutely horrified and refused to do it!! Said he wanted to show his WHOLE painting to his mother. After quite a bit of negotiating, I got him to trade one or two of his fourths and stop crying!!! I guess the message is, you never know for sure how they are going to react.

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  2. Thanks for your comment! I looked through your blog and got lots of great ideas!

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