Origami Tulips

 Summary: I had my class make origami tulips. I introduced contemporary modern paper artists and how origami art came to the class. I gave a short demo on how to make origami tulips with different colors of paper of their choice, and from there, I had them make their own a total of three flowers and have the back part of the flowers labeled. 

Extension: For an extension part of the project, I could have my class write a note to a person to whom they would give the flower tulips since it symbolizes "deep love for someone."

Lesson plan project (Tia, Basil, Jalyssa, Faith)

 

Hidden Safari

 Summary: We had to draw an animal of our choice, using cool colors for the background and warm colors over it so that the outline is shown when the red sunglasses are used to look over it.

Extension: Use warm and cool colors and use the outline of their hands

 Summary: We did a project related to Van Gough's landscape paintings. For this one, we used tissue paper to make a landscape collage and construction paper to make a cutout outline of a cactus to complete the desert landscape. 

Extension: For an extension project, I can have my students make their favorite flower from the tissue papers provided and have a collage of them to form a landscape.

Principles of Elements

 

In my opinion, it's necessary to teach the elements of principles and design because I see them as the main building blocks for kids to use to express their creativity in terms of being artistic. What they learn from these principles and design can be used for their future artworks so that they can experiment by combining things and be able to create new pieces or projects or apply it to their work; it also helps them clarify their message to their audience without it would be hard for the students to express their emotions and what they think.

Regarding an extension project, I would want to try teaching how to basket weave using paper; it ties in nicely with the concepts of line, use of shapes, form, depth of field since weaving overlaps, and the use of color.

Dot Day

 

Summary: In class, we did a project recognizing the power of imagination and encouraging other children to explore their creativity by making a dot in any form they want. Specifically, we made a heart shape out of cookie paper, used Crayola crayons to add our designs, and added watercolor for the background.

Extension: I could have the students create a design, pattern, or part of a circle and combine all the other three pieces from other students to form a dot.