ART INVESTIGATIONS
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Artwork is a great opportunity for young children to hone in on their observation and communication skills. Through careful, systematic observation children learn to pay attention to details. As they describe their new understandings through drawing, painting, and model building they begin to refine their observation skills.
POINTILLISM
The children had the opportunity to meet a professional
artist during our investigation. Seth’s friend Amanda came in and showed us
some of her work. She explain how she paints and uses a technique called
pointilism. Amanda showed the children some of her artwork. The children then
got the chance to work together to make a pointilism piece together with the
help of Amanda. The chidlren used q-tips and cottonballs to create their
painting.
Standards: Express interest in and show appreciation for the
creative work of others, Express individuality, life experiences, and what
he/she knows and is able to do through a variety of media, Seek new and varied
experiences and challenges.
Science: Engage in simple investigations; Use classroom and household tools independently with eye-hand coordination to carry out activities.
Social/Emotional: Manage the expression of feelings, thoughts, impulses, and behaviors with minimal guidance from adults.
Science: Engage in simple investigations; Use classroom and household tools independently with eye-hand coordination to carry out activities.
Social/Emotional: Manage the expression of feelings, thoughts, impulses, and behaviors with minimal guidance from adults.
ANDY WARHOL
Through our Art investigation we looked at multiple
different artists and their techniques. One of the artists we chose to look at
was Andy Warhol. We wanted to examine how he put multiple images together to
create a picture. We decided to make a
class collection and each child made his/her own image of a blue Lego block.
After the children were done we hung all the images together to form a single
picture. By doing this the children were able to work on their fine motor
skills as well as looking at details. The teachers provoked the children to
count the holes on top of the block and look at how big the block was and what
color blue it was made of.
Standards: Use imagination and creativity to interact with
objects and materials. Express interest
in and show appreciation for the creative work of others.
Math: Create shapes during play by building, drawing, etc. Understand and use names of shapes when identifying objects.
Physical Health: Coordinate the use of hands, fingers and wrists to manipulate objects and perform tasks requiring precise movements.
Social/Emotional: Show confidence in own abilities and accomplish routine and familiar tasks independently.
Math: Create shapes during play by building, drawing, etc. Understand and use names of shapes when identifying objects.
Physical Health: Coordinate the use of hands, fingers and wrists to manipulate objects and perform tasks requiring precise movements.
Social/Emotional: Show confidence in own abilities and accomplish routine and familiar tasks independently.
BODY PAINTING
While we have been looking at painting in different ways
many of the children found painting their bodies to be an enjoyable
experiences. To help the children express this interest, we read the book I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More, by Karen
Beaumont and then went outside with paint and brushes and let the
children explore. We planned this experience on our water play day so the
children could paint and paint and then clean up! While the children were painting
we had them focus on their body parts.
Standards: Express interest in and show appreciation for the
creative work of others. Seek new and varied experiences and challenges.
Science: Engage in simple investigations.
Physical Health: Use classroom and household tools independently with eye-hand coordination to carry out activities.
Social/Emotional: Manage the expression of feelings, thoughts, impulses, and behaviors with minimal guidance from adults.
Science: Engage in simple investigations.
Physical Health: Use classroom and household tools independently with eye-hand coordination to carry out activities.
Social/Emotional: Manage the expression of feelings, thoughts, impulses, and behaviors with minimal guidance from adults.
CLAY SCULPTURES
Looking at different medium, we did a lot of work with clay.
The children used playdough and model magic, but they were able to experience real
clay to build with. The children worked with the clay over multiple days before
they were able to make a sculpture out of their clay. The children used
different tools to sculpt with.
DAYTON ART INSTITUTE
When we began looking at the different mediums of art we
started our journey at the Dayton Art Institute. There we were able to view
many types of art such as paintings, sculptures, collages, and photography.
Since we began at an art gallery, the children and the teachers decided we need
to create an art gallery to display our own art works that we have been working
to create over the last few months. Please join us as we showcase our artistic
talents at the Explorer Art Gallery.
MARBLE PAINTING
To help the children gain more appreciation from different
artist the children had the opportunity to look at different artists styles and
imitate their styles. The children had looked at some of Jackson Pollacks work.
To help the children understand that you can paint in different ways without
using a brush the children had the opportunity to do some marble painting. The
children were able to scoop paint onto a piece of paper inside a box and then
dropped in a few marbles. They then closed the box up and shook it as hard as
they could. The children predicted what the paper would look like and then
opened the lid to find out.
PAINTING TOOLS
After painting with paint brushes in multiple ways the
children had the opportunity to paint with different types of objects. The
teachers collected some random objects around the room and introduced them
during meeting time. After the children had time to think about what they
wanted to paint with the children had the opportunity to pick their own
objects. The children then used their different objects to paint with. The
children and teachers discussed the different ways the objects could be used to
paint with as well as the different types of prints that the objects made.
Standards: Use
imagination and creativity to interact with objects and materials. Express interest in and show appreciation for
the creative work of others.
Math: Create shapes during play by building, drawing, etc. Understand and use names of shapes when identifying objects.
Physical Health: Coordinate the use of hands, fingers and wrists to manipulate objects and perform tasks requiring precise movements.
Social/Emotional: Show confidence in own abilities and accomplish routine and familiar tasks independently.
Math: Create shapes during play by building, drawing, etc. Understand and use names of shapes when identifying objects.
Physical Health: Coordinate the use of hands, fingers and wrists to manipulate objects and perform tasks requiring precise movements.
Social/Emotional: Show confidence in own abilities and accomplish routine and familiar tasks independently.
PENDULUM PAINTING
While learning about different types of art the children
tried their hand at pendulum painting. The children helped fill up the bottle
hanging on the pendulum with paint that they chose and then sung the pendulum
over their canvas. The children worked to predict what would happen before they
swung the pendulum and discussed with the teachers what did happen.
PICTURE PUZZLES
While discussing the medium of pictures we wanted to give
the children the opportunity to work with photographs in different ways. The
children first looked though different magazines with beautiful pictures and
picked out the pictures they liked best. Then the children used their fine
motor skills to cut up the pictures in different ways. Afterwards the children
worked to glue the picture back together. This experience was wonderful for the
children to refine their fine motor skills.
Standards: Use creative and flexible thinking to solve
problems. Carry out tasks, activities,
projects or experiences from beginning to end.
Science: Use simple tools to extend investigation.
Physical Health: Coordinate the use of hands, fingers and wrists to manipulate objects and perform tasks requiring precise movements. Use classroom and household tools independently with eye-hand coordination to carry out activities. Show confidence in own abilities and accomplish routine and familiar tasks independently.
Science: Use simple tools to extend investigation.
Physical Health: Coordinate the use of hands, fingers and wrists to manipulate objects and perform tasks requiring precise movements. Use classroom and household tools independently with eye-hand coordination to carry out activities. Show confidence in own abilities and accomplish routine and familiar tasks independently.
REFLECTIVE ART
To look at how we can change the way the paint looks on the
paper we made reflective paintings. The children had the opportunity to paint
on paper. Afterwards the children folded their paper in half. The children and teachers discussed how the
painting looked the same on both sides of the paper. The children were able to
mix the colors together to make new colors also.
REVERSE PAINTING
Through our investigation of painting we looked at different
techniques. One technique we wanted to investigate further was reverse
painting. The children had the opportunity to paint on the table and then put
their paper on the table over the painting. The paint then transferred to the
paper and created their picture. The children used their fine motor skills to
draw shapes and letters in the paint on the table.
Standards: Express interest in and show appreciation for the
creative work of others. Seek new and
varied experiences and challenges.
Science: Engage in simple investigations.
Physical Health: Use classroom and household tools independently with eye-hand coordination to carry out activities.
Social/Emotional: Manage the expression of feelings, thoughts, impulses, and behaviors with minimal guidance from adults.
Science: Engage in simple investigations.
Physical Health: Use classroom and household tools independently with eye-hand coordination to carry out activities.
Social/Emotional: Manage the expression of feelings, thoughts, impulses, and behaviors with minimal guidance from adults.
SPRAYING NAMES
While looking at different ways we can use paint, we decided
to look at spray painting. The children had the opportunity to work on letter
recognition, beginning with their own names while looking at spray painting.
The children searched through a pile of big letters and found the ones in their
own name. They then took their letters outside and lined them up in the correct
order and sprayed them with watercolors in spray bottles. The children worked
their fine motor skills as they used their muscles to squeeze the spray
bottles.
Standards: Use creative and flexible thinking to solve
problems. Carry out tasks, activities,
projects or experiences from beginning to end.
Science: Use simple tools to extend investigation.
Physical Health: Coordinate the use of hands, fingers and wrists to manipulate objects and perform tasks requiring precise movements. Use classroom and household tools independently with eye-hand coordination to carry out activities. Show confidence in own abilities and accomplish routine and familiar tasks independently. With modeling and support, print letters of own name and other meaningful words with mock letters and some actual letters.
Science: Use simple tools to extend investigation.
Physical Health: Coordinate the use of hands, fingers and wrists to manipulate objects and perform tasks requiring precise movements. Use classroom and household tools independently with eye-hand coordination to carry out activities. Show confidence in own abilities and accomplish routine and familiar tasks independently. With modeling and support, print letters of own name and other meaningful words with mock letters and some actual letters.
TAPE ART
After the first attempt at doing tape and the result not
being very successful, we decided we should retry this activity. The children
were each given pieces of tape and they worked to create different shapes out
of the tape. Afterwards the children painted over the tape with watercolors.
When the paint was dry we peeled out the tape and the children were able to see
the negative spaces where there was no paint.
Standards: Use imagination and creativity to interact with
objects and materials. Express interest
in and show appreciation for the creative work of others.
Math: Create shapes during play by building, drawing, etc. Understand and use names of shapes when identifying objects.
Physical Health: Coordinate the use of hands, fingers and wrists to manipulate objects and perform tasks requiring precise movements.
Social/Emotional: Show confidence in own abilities and accomplish routine and familiar tasks independently.
Math: Create shapes during play by building, drawing, etc. Understand and use names of shapes when identifying objects.
Physical Health: Coordinate the use of hands, fingers and wrists to manipulate objects and perform tasks requiring precise movements.
Social/Emotional: Show confidence in own abilities and accomplish routine and familiar tasks independently.