School Programs :: Art :: Kindergarten
Cool Hands & Warm Hearts
Students learned about the warm and cool colors. We then created two paintings using these colors. Next, we traced our hands on the cool painting and our hearts on the warm painting and cut them out. We finished them by gluing them to black paper.
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Secondary Bugs
Students learned about the primary colors and then experimented with tempera paint, creating secondary colors. Once they were dry, students created bugs from their paintings and cut them out. We then glued them to green paper and finished our bug creations with pencils and markers!
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Mary Cassatt Family Drawings
Students studied the paintings of American Artist Mary Cassatt and discussed the element of family and the different ways of drawing them. Students sketched their families with pencils, outlined them in marker, and then colored them with crayons. Next, we glued them on to a background and added colored paper for a collage, frame effect.
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Frederick Remington Horse Drawings
Students studied the paintings Frederick Remington and discussed what makes a picture a "western". We then traced our hands and turned them into horses by adding a mane and a tail. Students added a background and outlined in black marker. We finished them by adding color!
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Henri Rousseau Jungle Drawings
Students studied artist Henri Rousseau and his jungle paintings. We practiced drawing our own jungles and then colored them in with oil pastels. We finished them by gluing animal print borders on the edges!
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African Painted Houses
We began this lesson by reading Maya Angelou's book "My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me" based on the Ndebele Tribe in Africa. We then discussed symmetry and color mixing which led us to create our own African painted houses just like in the book!
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Paul Klee Printmaking Portraits
Students studied the paintings of Abstract Artist Paul Klee and his use of lines and shapes. We discussed how to use these lines, and geometric shapes in order for the students to create their own portrait. Then students drew their image onto a foam, which we inked and made prints from.
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