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Sakura
AVP lesson for today! Sponsored by Community Financial Credit Union... Why not celebrate the Japanese sakura (cherry blossoms!) today with an official hanami indoors...paint or draw some cherry blossoms (simple flower petal configuration) or find a sakura project on Pinterest, like tissue flowers glued to real branches from your backyard. Then have a Japanese themed picnic in the living room, dumplings, steamed veggies and rice, edamame, ramen - I know you all have ramen in the pantry 'cause the shelves at Kroger are empty! And to finish, watch some of the beautiful Japanese flower-viewing videos from #virtualhanami
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AVP lesson for today! Sponsored by Community Financial Credit Union... Why not celebrate the Japanese sakura (cherry blossoms!) today with an official hanami indoors...paint or draw some cherry blossoms (simple flower petal configuration) or find a sakura project on Pinterest, like tissue flowers glued to real branches from your backyard. Then have a Japanese themed picnic in the living room, dumplings, steamed veggies and rice, edamame, ramen - I know you all have ramen in the pantry 'cause the shelves at Kroger are empty! And to finish, watch some of the beautiful Japanese flower-viewing videos from #virtualhanami
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A Creative Calendar for Those At Home!
MONDAY! Art Appreciation Day
FOCUS: Book Illustration
Pick 5 storybooks off the shelf (or at this point maybe off the floor or under the bed!). Choose ones with different illustration styles. Make note of the artist who created them! Talk about what art materials and media the illustrator used. Lois Ehlert uses found objects; Eric Carle, hand painted papers; Anita Jeram, pen & ink, watercolor. Add some Art Making: Design a new cover or page in a new medium for your favorite book...crayon, chalk art, markers, toothpicks! Share your art with the PCAC (see ways to do that above!)
TUESDAY! Every Tuesday during our summer art camps, we have Tie-Dye Tuesday. Campers and staff wear anything with tie dye on it: bandanas, T-shirts, shorts, sneakers, even socks! Stage a family or kid picture featuring your tie-dye and send your family pic in to us...we will share them all on facebook and the #PCACTieDyeGallery, tag @pcacplymouth
WEDNESDAY! - It's Art Challenge Day. For this project you will need
*Something to draw with - pen, pencil, or thin marker
*Plain paper
*10 small random objects - like a coin, dryer lint, game piece, keys, chap stick, fork, tea bag, dry breakfast cereal, whatever!
The Challenge: Choose your first object and set it on the paper. Check it out...flip it over, turn it sideways. What does it remind you of? Now grab your pencil or pen and draw around the object to complete the picture. I have included a few samples here. Repeat with other objects - maybe combine one or more...share them with us at the PCAC!
THURSDAY! It's Throwback Thursday - At the Howard house, that means we take out creative things that we used to do when we were "younger" and have some fun! Try some playdough or homemade salt dough, crayons, legos, sidewalk chalk, marshmallows and toothpicks...
FRIDAY! Photo Field Trip Friday
Grab your phone, ipad, digital or traditional camera...we're going outside. Exercise + art! Stay in your own outdoor space, yard or neighborhood (just your family today, please). Our goal is to find and document things that you have never noticed before...leaf print on the sidewalk, giant squirrel nest in the tree, cool patterns on the manhole cover. Try to frame your subject in the camera window (older students can look up the "rule of thirds" before you go!) And don't be afraid to change your body or camera position to get better lighting! Upload your best shots and have an online family gallery showing.
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MONDAY! Art Appreciation Day
FOCUS: Book Illustration
Pick 5 storybooks off the shelf (or at this point maybe off the floor or under the bed!). Choose ones with different illustration styles. Make note of the artist who created them! Talk about what art materials and media the illustrator used. Lois Ehlert uses found objects; Eric Carle, hand painted papers; Anita Jeram, pen & ink, watercolor. Add some Art Making: Design a new cover or page in a new medium for your favorite book...crayon, chalk art, markers, toothpicks! Share your art with the PCAC (see ways to do that above!)
TUESDAY! Every Tuesday during our summer art camps, we have Tie-Dye Tuesday. Campers and staff wear anything with tie dye on it: bandanas, T-shirts, shorts, sneakers, even socks! Stage a family or kid picture featuring your tie-dye and send your family pic in to us...we will share them all on facebook and the #PCACTieDyeGallery, tag @pcacplymouth
WEDNESDAY! - It's Art Challenge Day. For this project you will need
*Something to draw with - pen, pencil, or thin marker
*Plain paper
*10 small random objects - like a coin, dryer lint, game piece, keys, chap stick, fork, tea bag, dry breakfast cereal, whatever!
The Challenge: Choose your first object and set it on the paper. Check it out...flip it over, turn it sideways. What does it remind you of? Now grab your pencil or pen and draw around the object to complete the picture. I have included a few samples here. Repeat with other objects - maybe combine one or more...share them with us at the PCAC!
THURSDAY! It's Throwback Thursday - At the Howard house, that means we take out creative things that we used to do when we were "younger" and have some fun! Try some playdough or homemade salt dough, crayons, legos, sidewalk chalk, marshmallows and toothpicks...
FRIDAY! Photo Field Trip Friday
Grab your phone, ipad, digital or traditional camera...we're going outside. Exercise + art! Stay in your own outdoor space, yard or neighborhood (just your family today, please). Our goal is to find and document things that you have never noticed before...leaf print on the sidewalk, giant squirrel nest in the tree, cool patterns on the manhole cover. Try to frame your subject in the camera window (older students can look up the "rule of thirds" before you go!) And don't be afraid to change your body or camera position to get better lighting! Upload your best shots and have an online family gallery showing.
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Here are some MORE of Lisa's favorite creative projects to try out with things you may already have at home.
Have fun! Email us your picture if you like and I will post them on our facebook page [email protected]
Have fun! Email us your picture if you like and I will post them on our facebook page [email protected]
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A New Friend or Character Engineering!
Materials: Pencil or pen Any kind of paper Design and name a new character for your favorite TV show or book. What is their power or mission in the storyline? What kind of clothes express their personality? Write out a character identity paragraph, or make a list of their strengths and challenges, like: Clever, Fearless (but afraid of mice), doesn't go anywhere without their lucky rock, always wears red hats. |
Patterns (3 and up!)
Use small objects to make tabletop patterns Materials: * Small stuff - Buttons, Coins from the penny or change jar, paper clips, shaped breakfast cereal, etc. * Colored or white paper Fill the paper with shapes, rows and columns of objects in patterns...silver and copper, horizontal and vertical paper clips, Cheerios and Chex in circles... Take an overhead picture of your work and then start another. Or make a mini collage of all of them together on the kitchen table! ***Make sure you put all the change back in the jar! You can eat the "art" cereal, or sprinkle it out in the snow for the animals |
WINTER ONLY....Designer Ice Garden
Overnight Indoor/Outdoor Project - See Pics above! Freeze nature-friendly stuff in colored (or not!) water for a mini outdoor sculpture garden Materials: * Foil pans or Plastic containers (empty and clean, to-go containers from the recycle bin?) * water in pitcher * Cold weather and flat outdoor spot to freeze your Art Ice *Suggestions for freezables: unwrapped hard candies or lifesavers (holiday leftovers?), sliced or shredded carrots, small pine cones, raisins, colored tissue paper, colored bottle caps, dried flowers or petals, single leaves, bird seed. *Water can be left clear, or use a few drops of food coloring, jello powder or drink mix (gatorade, koolaid, lemonade, tea - even those not-so-fresh packets left over from last summer, or the tea that no one likes :) HOW TO! Indoors: Gather your freezables and arrange them in the containers. Think about your color pallette! Fill pitchers with water. You can color ahead of time, or add color outside. Outdoors: Place containers on a flat surface - they will be here overnight, so the front sidewalk is probably not a great spot! Pour water into containers at least 2 inches deep, but thicker is better especially with large containers like a foil lasagna size pan! use a stick or fork to adjust placement of the objects in the pan. Sprinkle drink or jello powder over top, or add food coloring and gently stir. Leave overnight to freeze. Clear a snowy area off to display your big ice. Definitely take pics! |
