Art

 

Students will improve their small-motor skills at the “Art Center.” They also will improve their aesthetic appreciation of the world. The art center allows for creativity.

Teachers need to model how to:

·        Use and store materials

·        Clean up

 

Materials

·        Pencils

·        Paper

·        Colored paper

·        Scissors

·        Tape

·        Stapler / staples

·        Crayons

·        Colored pencils

·        Markers

·        Paint

·        Scraps

·        Hole puncher

·        Glue

 

 

Activities

·        Illustrate and make covers for student written books

 

·        Make puppets or characters from books

 

·        Make a mask to go along with a story that has been read/written by the students

 

·        Design a book jacket

 

·        Illustrate music and poems

 

·        Make _____ with clay/playdough

 

·        Paint _____ using watercolors

 

·        Draw _____ using crayons/markers/colored pencils

 

·        Read about an artist/illustrator

 

·        Study illustrations in books with the same illustrator and look for patterns

 

·        Make a puppet

 

·        Read and follow directions to make something

 

·        Read a how-to-draw book and make a drawing