PicaSsO MoNstERs!
I have been waiting a full year to post this project! Last year, I had to document all of the steps and by the time I did that, it was too late to blog about it. This is one of my second graders' favorite projects and it was adapted from a lesson that has been floating around the net for awhile. In that lesson, the kids all made witches, but I thought my kids would like more variety, so I came up with this. Materials : Info (books, visuals, videos) about Pablo Picasso, construction paper in all colors, scissors, glue, scissors, black marker, patterns for heads (see below), masking tape, pencils, variety of items for decorating (google eyes, glitter, pipe cleaners, etc.), metallic markers Art History: Discuss Pablo Picasso and share various examples of his cubist portraits. I show the video Dropping In On Picasso . Encounter: Step 1- The Head Hand out patterns for the monster heads, I have 4 different patterns that I hand out to each table. We discuss which shape head would
I teach ES art at an American School in India and I have been trying to comment on your giveaway post for the past two days but kept running into technical glitches. I wanted to share that my colleague uses your ceramic bird project with her grade 1 students :) I also would love to get some new inspiration for projects using felt. We have way too much of it for some reason and I'd love to use most of it up by summer. Thanks for blogging! -Amy
ReplyDeleteI've NEVER won a blog giveaway!!!! Yay! Thank you! I can't wait to put these items in my classroom and wear that adorable necklace!!
ReplyDeleteAnna,
DeleteCan you send me an address via email?
mrspicasso26@yahoo.com
Your package is ready to go!
Thanks,
Denise