Peer Lesson 10--Crafts

Mother's Day Beaded Bracelets

 
 

For this project, I made home-made beads from cut up strips of magazines, that were rolled by hand into beads and then threaded onto a piece of string. The end result being the creation of a beautiful beaded bracelet.

I also placed the bracelet on a heart-shaped card, which I designed and cut out from construction paper and that listed the reasons why my mom is special to me.

This is a great project, especially for 5th and 6th grade students, as crafts offer students independence in creation, but simplicity in use.


Extension Art Activity: Use this type of project for teaching students about Social Studies and Multiculturalism. For example, after showing students examples of Native American beadwork items, have students make their own beadwork project using home-made beads that they can make from items such as old magazines, catalogues, or newspaper ads.

Peer Lesson 9--Clay

Clay Mask Sculpture

 
 


For this project, I learned about the different types of clay and terms associated with using clay in artworks, i.e. unity, scoring, hand building, and pinching. Cubism or Realism was the artwork theme that I had in mind when sculpting my face mask.

I also learned some history about other cultures and how masks are related to those cultures, as well as some background history about how Cubism or Realism as an art form was started. Cubism is where realistic art forms are transformed into abstract forms.

This is a good project for students to learn about art forms that can sometimes be confusing, as well as being able to show students how to look at and appropriate various forms of artworks.

Extension Art Activity: Use this type of project in Social Studies for studying cultures where masks play an important role in the people's lives. Such as the Native American cultures that made totem poles or cultures like the Maori of New Zealand, who made totem-like objects. After discussing these cultures in class, have students make their own masks or totem-like objects that represent their families or cultural traditions out of clay.

Peer Lesson 8--Science-Seasons

Fall Tree

For this project, I had the choice of making a Fall or Winter scene that showed what a real tree would look like during either of those 2 seasons.

I traced my hand and arm on construction paper to form the trunk of the tree and the branches. Next I glued different colored pieces of tissue paper to create a leaf effect on the tree branches. I also used cotton balls for the clouds, crayons for the pumpkins, and finally glitter to emphasize certain parts of my fall scene.

This is a great project to help students to visualize the many different colors, shapes, lines, and textures associated with different seasons that they are learning about in science.

Extension Art Activity: Use this type of project with a Geography lesson by having students create some of the landscapes that they might see in the different countries around then world. You can also tie in how the different seasons look in different countries as well. Students will be able to retain their Geography lessons better by making them into an art project, which then can serve as a visual study tool.

This project could also be used in Science to make different habitats that the plants or animals being studied in class might live in.

Peer Lesson 7--Scratchboard Art

Mother's Day Cards

 For this project, I created my own home-made scratch board art, and used to make a Mother's Day card.

To make a scratchboard, you first make a drawing of what image you want to transfer.
Next use crayons to color then image.
After coloring, next paint over the colored drawings with black paint, and on the opposite side from the black paint, scribble pencil lines only where the images that you want transfer is.
 Finally use a small wooden dowel to scratch of the black paint only where you want your colored design  to show through.

This project is great for showing students how easy it is to make artworks at home without having to buy expensive supplies. It also shows how the combination of different colors can produce different effects in art.


Extension Art Activity: Use this to help students design their own Math flashcards to study from. By having students make their own home-made math flash cards, the parents are not required to spend money to buy them and the students will retain the information better, as they will be studying it as they make the flashcards. Also, the flashcards can be saved and used for future review.

Peer Lesson 6--Crayons

Crayons

 For this project, I used a combination of different crayons, shapes, lines, and emphasis to create a scene that tells something about myself.

My scene shows me at my future upcoming graduation from NSU in December 2013. It also shows my  love of the beach and the ocean.

This type of project is great for promoting self-awareness in students, as well as learning about their future goals and dreams in life.



Extension Art Activity: Use this with Language Arts to encourage students to write about themselves or others that they admire. Students can make drawings that they can color to go along with their writings.

Another activity would be for students to make their own Picture Book story, by using only the drawings that they have colored and made to tell their own original story, which then can be shared with the class.

Peer Lesson 5-Multicultural-2

Creatures

 For this project, 3 students had to cooperate to make the 3-part creature, in order to teach students how to work together and to appreciate the fact the not everyone is the same or does things the same way. Basically the activity promotes tolerance and acceptance of others.

On this creature, I drew the head part, the fold my drawing inside and passed to someone on my left or right as directed by the teachers, while the person next to me passed their drawing to me for me to draw the middle section of the body of the creature.

Finally to draw the legs and feet of the creature, all of the drawings were again passed in a different direction so a different student from the first two artists could complete the creature.



Extension Art Activity: Use this for Science to show how changes in genetics can cause changes in plants, animals, and people. For example, instead of using a Punnett Square to show how what type of individual is created when certain genetic factors are left out or put together, a drawing could be made by 3 different students to show what they think the resulting person, plant, or animal could look like.

Peer Lesson 4--Multicultural-1

Masks

For this project, I made a mask to represent myself without words, in order to show students tolerance of others that may look or act differently from their families.

I used a paper plate, foam cut-out pieces, glitter, paint, string, glue, and construction paper to make my mask.

This a great a project to teach about tolerance of others and their cultures. It also gives students a chance to show off their individual cultures to the class.




Extension Art Activity: Use this type of project for Language Arts and/or Social Studies by having students make masks of different characters described in a story that they are reading or using in class, and then use the masks to have a play about the story.

Another activity that students could do with the masks is to write their own stories to go with then mask, and then have the class send them to another school in another city, state, or country. The schools receiving the masks and stories, can then add on to the story and make their own masks to go with it and then mail theirs back to the original school, as a form of cultural exchange.