Egpytian glue portraits

Sorry for the absence! I've been sick for the better part of the past week, and with that came a pounding headache and light sensitivity. The last thing I wanted to do was spend time editing photos for my blog! I have so many projects to get to, though.

Here's a fun project I did with my grade 5's.They are currently studying ancient Egypt, and I wanted to do a portrait study with them.

Students used a computer period to do a study of ancient Egyptian profile portraits. They sketched out an idea that they were happy with, and then we did a guided draw of the facial details once we were back in class.

Once students had finished their drawing (in pencil), they used glue to outline their drawings. The next day, they used chalk pastels to fill them in. The finishing touch was a few jewels, which they glued on as accessories. They're beautiful!!

Onomatopoeia art

It's been a while since I've posted a project - it always seems to be that I'll have a couple of weeks where we are "in process", then suddenly I'll have several finished projects to share (such as I do now.)

Inspired by a picture I saw on pinterest, I decided to do a lesson on onomatopoeias with my grade 5 and 6 art classes.

We started by talking about what onomatopoeia are, then we spend some time looking at some comic books, and some artwork by Litchenstein, Next, I showed the class a short video from the original Batman movie, and had them call out the onomatopoeias that flashed on the screen.

I had tracers available for students if they weren’t confident doing the lettering, but others just went off on their own and they all turned out so great.

 

When they were done the lettering, they coloured it in (using ONE color, unless they could make a VERY special case as to why they needed more) then cut it out carefully.

 

The next step was to collage an entire sheet of paper using old dictionary pages. Next, they traced a shape, such as an explosion or a cloud, on the back, and cut it out. After gluing their shape onto a new sheet of coloured paper, they cut it out, leaving a border. Then they glued THAT onto ANOTHER sheet of paper, then glued their word on top.

Look at how great they look!

 

This is a project that used a TON of paper, and there were scraps everywhere, but the results were so great that it was definitely worth it!

This took two 1 hour periods.

Urban/rural bird collages

Today I did my first ever collage with a grade 2/3 class. I found an idea similar to this somewhere online, but I can't find the original source so I don't know how I can credit it! If anyone ever stumbles upon it, please let me know.

My plan was to make these collages (I figured it goes with urban and rural studies, which they will be doing soon enough)

I started by cutting out pages from an old atlas (Notice I did my example on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.)

 Kids had to cut out the white border, and glue it onto the black papers (pre-cut by my grade 6's).

 Then they used black cardstock to cut out the power lines.

 Then they used "pretty paper" (aka scrapbooking paper) to cut out grass and flowers. Finally they added some birds to the top of the power lines, and our first ever collage was done!

I find when I look at these, I imagine that the birds traveled to wherever their map says. This took a full 1 hour period to complete, but was nice because students didn't need to bring more than glue and scissors. A nice, successful, EASY Friday afternoon!