Sunday, March 16, 2014

Monster Unit for Kindergarten

Each year I teach a monster unit plan to my Kindergarteners. It’s a great way to explore a lot of different media under the guise of fun monster projects.

Cityscape with Monster Collage

Read “Monster’s Don’t Eat Broccoli”

Oil pastel cityscape painted with tempera cakes…collage paper monster.

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Wild Thing Painting ~ One-Day Lesson

Read “Where the Wild Things Are”

Oil pastel drawing, painted with tempera cakes…

 

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Monster Sculpture (2-3 Day Project)

Watch BrainPopJr video on Sculpture: http://www.brainpopjr.com/artsandtechnology/art/sculpture/preview.weml

Using paper tubes and cardboard scraps, build a monster on a base. Next paint with cool color tempera cakes.

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Day Two: Add eyes, mouth, hair, yarn,  feathers, pipe cleaners, googly eyes and paper for habitat.

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I set up a hot glue gun station at one of my back counters…once the kids had at least 2 layers of paper/colors for their eyes then they could come visit me for feathers and googly eyes. They did a really good job following directions and having fun creating.