- orange construction paper
- black construction paper
- black fineliner
- black marker
- correction fluid
- scissors and glue
woensdag 28 oktober 2009
Happy Halloween
zaterdag 24 oktober 2009
Puzzle trees
- black paper A4 size
- black paper 23 by 32 cm
- oilpastel crayons
- scissors and glue
When colouring is finished, turn around the sheet. Draw a tree on the back, with five branches: one tho the right, one to the right edge of the paper, one to the middle above, one to the left edge of the sheet and one to the left. Branches have to be small at the end and wide near to the trunk. You've got six puzzlepieces now. Cut them out and place them on the larger black sheet. Use the cut tree to check if your pieces lie well. Pate all parts on the black sheet, exept the tree of course. Maybe you can do something fun with it?
woensdag 21 oktober 2009
Spider web
You need:
- white drawing paper from 20 by 20 cm
- oil pastel crayons
- black paint
- brushes
- toothpicks
- coloured construction paper
dinsdag 20 oktober 2009
Haunted houses
- white drawing paper A4 size
- tissue paper in two colours
- brush and water
- black markers
- white chalk pastel
- hairspray
- black construction paper for background
Made by students of 10-11 years old
maandag 19 oktober 2009
Wacky witches
- charcoal
- chalk pastels
- white drawing paper A4 size
- black construction paper for background
- hairspray
How do you recognize a withc? What animals or things do you associate with a witch? What does an angry witch look like? Think of characteristis like mouth, eyes and eyebrows.
Tell children to practice first in drawing with charcoal. Explain how differences in colours have to be made. Tell them to use an eraser to erase the charcoal lines, and a tissue or your fingers to sweep out the colour.
The instruction is: draw an angry witch with charcoal and use a cold colour for the face. Draw the contours of the face first with charcoal. Then colour the face with chalk pastel. After this mouth, eyes and nose can be drawn with charcoal. Finish the drawing with charcoal. Make sure you add some typical witchy things like a cat, a bat, a spiderweb etc.
woensdag 14 oktober 2009
Take a walk with a line
You need:
- white drawing sheet A4 size
- markers
- fineliner
Start with a thick black marker and draw an interesting line horizontally across the paper. Repeat your line with rainbow colors to show emphasis and repetition. Fill your paper up with interesting line patterns in the background. Use a black fineliner. When ready it seems the coloured line looks like jumping off the page. This could also be a nice group project. Children have to discuss with eachother about the places their lines will come together and continuing the patterns.
dinsdag 13 oktober 2009
Autumn prints
- pieces of linoleum from 15 x 15 cm
- lino knife
- mat
- block printing ink
- flat piece of plexiglass
- linoleum roller
- construction paper
- lino press
Draw a leave or mushroom on your linoleum. Remember what you cut away will not print. It is not important to carve deeply into linoleum, just enough so that carved area is lower than the linoleum surface. Always carve away from your hand, always keep your hand behind the back edge of linoleum. When you want to check your printing block, place a piece of paper on the linoleum and rub over the paper with a crayon. This will create a “rubbing” and will give you an idea of what the final print will look like. Squeeze out “toothpaste” amount of ink on plexiglass. Roll ink out. Ink is ready when lines appear. Ink should look wet. If ink starts to look velvety/dry, sprinkle a little bit of water over the ink and add more ink. Put your linoleum block on a newspaper. Roll ink onto linoleum printing block, working quickly to cover all areas. Lay the block on a sheet in the printing press and press. Take away the block and your print is ready.
To make a group work, all kids have to cut out their prints. Ask some students to make a collage of all autumn leaves.
maandag 12 oktober 2009
Polka dots from Staphorst, Holland
Part of the table cloth
zaterdag 10 oktober 2009
Building sandwiches
- half a piece of coloured card board A3 size
- leftovers coloured paper
- ribbed cardboard
- noodles in different shapes
- seeds or tealeaves
- crepe paper
- glue
- scissors
- yarn
- pieces of cotton
Children create a table cloth from leftovers of cotton or paper. A plate has to be cut and glued on the table. The sandwich is made of ribbed cardboard. Now building can start!
Discuss with the kids what kind of food they like on their sandwich and how to represent this with the materials they have. Examples: yellow paper with holes in it will represent cheese; red yarn can be ketchup and am enrolled piece of pink cotton represents a slice of ham.
The artwork must partly be 3-D. Don't glue everything just flat, but try to work spatial and let things overlap. Make sure kids do this by showing three dimensional glueing before kids start working.
When there is enough food on the sandwich, it has to be closed with the top of a sandwich out of ribbed cardboard.
dinsdag 6 oktober 2009
Ghosts in the air
- black construction paper A4 size
- leftover cardboard
- scissors
- white chalk pastel
- hairspray
- white pencil
maandag 5 oktober 2009
Positive negative pumpkin faces
- black construction paper A4 size
- orange construction paper A5 size
- scissors
- knives and cutting blades
- glue
zondag 4 oktober 2009
Pumpkins in moonlight
You need:
- black constructionpaper A4 format
- pastel crayons
- pumpkins or pictures of pumpkins
- hairspray
- papertowels
- construction paper for background
Look with the kids to some brought pumpkins or pictures of them. Discuss shape, texture, size, colours, stem and leaves. Children have to draw at least two pumpkins, and one of them has to overlap another. Kids have to use pastel crayons on black construction paper. Tell them working with pastels will give a lot of smudge: be careful with smudgy fingers. Wipe them on a towell, and not on your artwork! Tell kids also to mix different colours. This will deepen the colours. Using brightr colours on dark ones will suggest the moonlight!
When the artworks are finished, you have to fix it with hairspray. Glue the work on a green or orange construction paper.
Made by students of 11-12 years old
dinsdag 29 september 2009
Autumn leaves with tissue paper
- white drawing sheet A4 format
- tissue paper in autumn colours
- brush
- jar with water
- white crayons
maandag 28 september 2009
Beautiful anemones
- white drawing sheet A4 size
- tissue paper in different colours
- brush
- can with water
With tissue paper you can make beautiful flowers without painting! In this lesson I chose anemones, but any flower will work. To make an anemone, fold a tissue paper three times until you have a rectangle. This rectangle has six lows now. Cut two petals out of this rectangle; this makes twelve petals totally. Six petals make one anemone. Cut petals from different colours tissue paper. Cut small and bigger ones. Take the white sheet and wet the place for the first flower with a brush. Put the petals one by one around an imaginary white circle (this is for the heart of the flower) on the wet spot. The petals will tighten themselves on the wet drawing sheet. Stich all petals this way. Overlap is allowed, working on the edge too. Cut little circles (flowerhearts) out of black tissue paper and stick them with water. The tissue paper has started 'bleeding' yet. The brighter the colour of tissue paper, the better it bleeds. Light colors bleed less. The colours of the tissue paper will blend together. If all is well, you'll see rays from the black heart into the petals. If not, wet the flowers again with a brush and water. Be careful, petals might shuffle. Let the artwork dry a little. When it's still moist a bit, pull of all petals. Your beautiful anemones are ready!
zondag 27 september 2009
Landscape of tissue paper
- tissue paper in several colours
- wallpaper glue, made with extra water
- glue brushes
- white drawing paper A4 size
Students are going to make a landscape out of tissue paper. They may just tear the sheets, so no scissors! The landscapes have to be constructed from behind, so the front sheets have to be glued at last. While doing it this way, colours can be glued overlapping, which gives more tints. Explain the students to use white tissue paper to make colours lighter. The glaciers on the mountains in the example are created by not glueing the white tissue paper entirely. Dry parts will stay white, wet parts take over the colour that's underneath.
zaterdag 26 september 2009
Mothers finest
- coloured paper A4 size
- scissors
- glue
- leftovers coloured paper
- leftovers yarn, wire, pipe cleaner
- buttons, feathers etc..
- leftovers of cotton
Traditionally, people love to decorate themselves. With what do people decorate themselves? Is this the same in all countries? What kind of decorations can you mention? Discuss decorations and write different kinds of decorations on the blackboard.
Each student gets two coloured sheets of paper; one for the background and one for the face. Fold the sheet for the face lengthwise and draw half a face against the fold. Don't forget the ears! Cut the face and glue it on a background, letting a bit space between face and background. uit en plak het op de achtergrond met een beetje ruimte eronder. So don't glue it flatly. Cut eyes, nose and mouth out of leftover paper and glue them on the face. Decorate the face with different materials. Thing of earrings, glasses, hair, make-up, chain, necktie etc.
(Photographs: Willem Wienholts)
Autumn trees near the water
- light blue drawing paper A4 size
- oilpastel crayons
- tempera in autumn colours
- brushes
Fold the paper in half. Above the fold is the country, below the fold is the water. Students draw with oilpastels some trees without leaves in the grass. Those trees have to be coloured firmly. Below the fold is the reflection of the trees in the water. The trees have to be drawn again, but mucht less thick coloured.
When the trees are ready, students get a plate with five colours of tempera: yellow, orange, red, brown and green. leaves have to be made by tamponning with the brushes. Tell your students to tampon with two or more colours at the same time, so don't mix up the colours.
When the leaves are ready and the paint is still wet, fold the paper again. There is now a lighter print of the foliage at the bottom of the sheet: the reflection in the water. The branches of the tree will now be visible again, because part of the paint is now on the bottom of the sheet.
donderdag 24 september 2009
Leave collection
You need:
- white drawing sheet A4 size
- tempera and brushes
- metallic pens and fine markers in several colours
Children make a composition of autumn leaves, considering variation between large and small leaves and different leaf shapes. The leaves may overlap eachother. To print the leaves, cover the bottoms with undiluted tempera in fall colours. Press the leaves with a book. If you want to make a print over another printed leave (overlap), you have to wait until the former print has dried. This won't take long , because the veins will give just thin prints.
When all prints are ready, the leave collection has to be complemented with drawn leaves. Use fine colour markers, including metallic. Draw the veins close together. Paste the work on a coloured background sheet.
maandag 21 september 2009
A spider and his web
You need:
- white drawing sheet A4 size cut lengthwise
- crayons
- water paint
- brushes
- jar with water
- black finepointed marker or white pencil
- coloured paper
zondag 20 september 2009
Cats like Rosina Wachtmeister
- she uses silver in every paiting
- faces are divided into colour patches
- she uses often warm colours
- backgrounds are decorated cheerfully
- figures are outlined with black or coloured lines
- eyes are very expressive because of those (black or coloured) lines
- white drawing paper A3 size
- tempera in different colours, including silver
- brushes
- newspapers
- jars with water
- tissues to clean and dry the brushes