Shape Assignment Ideas

This month my emphasis is the art element of Shape.  I have a couple of very simple ideas. 

#1. Give each child a white piece of construction paper and a simple shape (I used a circle).  The assignment is to incorporate the shape into a drawing.  Glue down the circle where ever they would like then draw a picture with the circle as part of the drawing. Some examples would be an eyeball, the top of an ice cream cone, the cener of a flower, a tire on a car, the head of a bird, the sun, a clock in a classroom.  I encouraged the students to try to fill the whole page as much with color as they could, usually great art doesn't have a lot of white.

The green machine

A Castle and a Happy Face.  Artist, my five-year-old daughter

 

#2. Give each child a large dark blue piece of construction paper, a large orange piece,  and a half a piece of yellow.  Have the children cut out the shapes of  a jack-o-lantern (orange the pumpkin, yellow the eyes, nose and mouth, and the blue for the background.) then glue to the blue.  Create some fun texture with line as you have the children use a crayon to draw one continuous line around the eyes, nose and mouth. They are not allowed to cross over a line, but may make a U-turn and go another direction.  Fill up the pumkin with line. 

 

#3.  Using leaves have the children create a shape like in assignment #1 and create a halloween/autumn scene. 

 

#4.  I think it would be fun with an older group of children to bring in a long piece of butcher paper and ask them to create a mural with many shapes.  Get the class divided into groups and give 2 shapes per group and an area on the butcher paper they are assigned.  Give them an over all theme to use for the mural and see what is created.  This would be fun just to see what team work can create. 

 

Remember to encourage them to think of their own ideas, not to copy their neighbor.  Art has no wrong answers so cheating would just be silly.  Also remember that if you are excited, they will be excited.  Thanks for your hard work and time.  Have fun!

 

-Camille

 

If you have any other fun ideas let me know so that we can all  share together.

Thanks again.