Miss Nelson's Art Projects

Description: For this project, we reviewed Vincent van Gogh's life and used visual thinking strategies to infer ideas about Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night . Then, we created our own silhouette image. We covered a large, dark-colored paper with bright and colorful tissue paper. Next, from black construction paper, we cut out our desired landscape.   Extension Activity: Vincent van Gogh's life could be integrated into language arts. Students could research or be presented with facts about his life. Students could write a narrative about his life and include a picture of a silhouette and collage. The visual the students create will allow the students to show their creativity in addition to sharing their knowledge about Vincent van Gogh. 

Description: In this in-class activity, we explored water-resistant art materials. We drew with crayons, sharpies, oil pastels, and water-based markers on coffee filters. Next, we covered our coffee filter with watercolor paint and watched to see what art materials would blend with the paint or keep their initial drawn-on shape. Since it was close to Valentine's Day, we could make our Dot Day coffee filters into a valentine. Extension Activity: A coffee filter watercolor Dot Day activity could be integrated into Language Arts and/or Science. The teacher could read the short story "Dot Day" by Peter H. Reynolds. Students could be given multiple art materials and asked to write their predictions down about them being water resistant and then explore and carry out the project. The teacher could teach the students the necessary vocabulary around this activity. For example, the word resistant.