I'm at a new school and my students had very little experience with things other than paper & pencil. I'm trying to provide as many "experiences" as possible. I felt like they did such an amazing job, and they truly seemed to enjoy creating these works.
It is Hispanic Heritage Month, and I'm trying to feature a different artist each week. For week one, we learned about the life and work of Frida Kahlo. We looked at the still life paintings of Frida, and noticed watermelon in most of them. I had students each make a slice of watermelon with a "bite" out of it. They also added flowers around the watermelon as a nod to Frida's iconic look. We used construction paper, construction paper crayons, and liquid glue(trying to give them more experiences with it to master how much & where to put it).
I really like this video for my young artists.
It is honest without oversharing details of her suffering & related work.
The prompt I gave my students was to create a wing creature in flight. We discussed what could be a "creature". They decided it could be an animal, imaginary creature, food monsters, robot, or a person. Here are some of the amazing pictures they created. I think they are incredibly fun!!
