Gumball Machines by 3rd Grade

Inspired by Wayne Thiebaud’s “Three Machines”  1963
I showed a BrainPop video on Pop Art that gives a nice description of Pop Art for kiddos. The video focuses on Warhol, mostly, but does show a glimpse of “Three Machines”.

Day One: Drawing and Painting the Machine
I used my Ladibug document camera to draw this step-by-step with the class. I passed out butter lids they could trace for the glass globe.


I let the kids use some glossy, red latex enamel for the machine…it will stain, but I gave several warnings and they did fine with keeping their clothes clean.
I demonstrated how to paint and add the shadow/highlights.

Day Two: Adding Gumballs
We stamped marker lids using black paint inside the glass globe. Then I passed out trays of primary colors and they used their color mixing skills to create secondary and intermediate colors.

Goal Wall for Art Room

 

Here's my required Goal Wall...I was resistant at first, but it has turned out to be a good thing to have. The kids can use a piece of free draw when they finish a project to draw the "art goal". This past month I've had the question : Can you draw a realistic face?

 

I have about 25 clothespins on a string that I simply clip the artwork to. The kids submit their art and at the end of the day I look through it and hang it up if they accomplished each goal.

 

Once we fill up all the clothespins, I will change the goal.

 

The objectives poster is a piece of laminated poster paper that I wrote on with dry-erase marker, that way I can easily change out the goal without making a whole new poster.

 

 

Here's some of my realistic faces that made it on the Goal Wall.

 

2nd Grade

1st Grade

 

3rd Grade

 

 

One Day Projects for Thanksgiving

 

"Mayflower Collage"

1st Grade

Draw water with blue oil pastels.

 

Add background information.

Draw a boat on brown paper and cut out.

 

Cut white sails and glue to paper.

(Draw two lines coming up from boat for sails.)

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"Crazy Turkey Collage"

2nd Grade

 

 

 

Trace a circle and cut out for turkey's belly.

Cut out a head with a neck (bowling pin shape) and glue behind circle.

Cut a triangle for the beak.

Add eyes and wattle.

Use long strips of paper to make accordion fold legs.

Cut paper for wings and feathers.

 

 

2nd and 3rd grade

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"The Mayflower in a Bottle" Drawing

4th Grade

 

 

(this could be a one day lesson if you color with crayons...we plan on painting them with watercolors next class.)

 

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!