Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Halloween Art


Halloween Art is Howling Fun!
I have a lot of patterns to run through the copier which require the children to practice those cut on the line skills, as well as tracers of those same patterns for those years the copier wasn’t cooperating!  However, I love watching my students create their own art using the concept of TLC Art.  Using squares and rectangles of specific sizes, we are able to cut circles, ovals, triangles, etc as we create amazing art.  Developing visual perception takes a bit of work, but as the year progresses, the children truly improve in that area.  Today I thought I’d share our witches and trick-or-treaters.  The trick-or-treaters is from an old TLC Art book or freebie.  The witch we made up as we created it today!  I think they turned out cute.  We added the witches to our “What Are You Afraid Of” hall display. 
We use discoveryed.com & my kinders love the "spooky favorites: twelve days of halloween." 



Here’s how we made the witch:
Construction paper & sizes
Light green 6”x9” (head)
Dark green 1”x3” (nose)
White 2”x4” (eyes fold in 1/2 to cut 2 eyes)
Black 1 1/2”x3 (eyes fold in 1/2 to cut 2 eyes)
Purple 1/2”x12” (hair)
Black 6”x9” (triangle for hat)
Black 1”x7” (hat band)
Orange 1”x7” (trim to fit above hat band)
Use black scraps from the hat to make a mouth (some made their mouths like the photo below & some made zigzag mouths!)

For circles & ovals cut corners & trim/round the points
For triangle fold in half & cut on the diagonal
**This project took my class about 30 minutes to complete!!


Tuesday, October 23, 2012

October Activties


October Activities
October has been so busy!  We are working on a Farm unit as we prepare for our field trip to the farm at the end of the month.  In addition, we are studying about Halloween as well as beginning our AMSTI unit on Trees, and squeezing in Red Ribbon Week activities.  Combining all of these has been an amazing feat for the 4 K teachers.

Red Ribbon Week 

And of course we combined our farm art with our Red Ribbon door decoration!


Farm

Shape Tractors and Scarecrows




Halloween

Frankenstein was fun to make 
(and I see we need to repair one!)
The children shared silly things that frightened them!!

They really loved making these Frankensteins!!  We painted a small paper plate green, added a fun hair piece, eyes, nose, ears, and drew a zig-zag mouth.




October isn't over yet, and we have more things on the wall and more fun things to make!  Learning is so much fun!