Art With Mr.E: Make a Cardboard Tube Creature With Me

Supplies: Cardboard Tube, Construction paper, Scissors, Glue...and you might also what to use crayons, markers, or other supplies you might have at home.

Creature Portraits: 3rd

Week 2 of the 2013-2014 school year brought us these fun "creature" portraits.  Week 1 we reviewed self portraits & created a full body "normal" portrait with an interesting place for the background.  This week I wanted to continue with portraits, but put a fun spin on it for my students.  We started with "normal" instruction for portraiture.  After they spent sometime with a mirror, pencil, and paper...I introduced THE TWIST!  The kids LOVED it!!!  Some did a lot of erasing...others just added onto themselves.  

We also discussed taking our creatures & creating a story based off of them.  I've got to look at the curriculum, but I'd really like to pursue them writing some & drawing a narrative to go along with these!

OK...LOOK AT THIS NEXT ONE & THINK ICONIC MOVIE CHARACTER!

GIVE UP?

Here is a hint...."BABYRUTH"

Monster Collage: 1st Grade

I love monsters...aliens...creatures!!!!  Every time the bookmobile came to our village...I'd be the first one on asking for every book they had on the topic!  Sweet memories of staying up late with my dad and watching Star Trek & other crazy shows/movies about such things. As an art teacher...I ADORE ART WORK ABOUT THEM!!!!  Aren't these great!!!  SO UNIQUE!  None of them look like my teacher example...which truly blesses my heart.  Nothing worse than seeing 100 pieces of art that look like little clones of your own.  

Shoe Transformed: 4th Grade

So the 4th graders started by drawing their shoe/boot as is.  They were then asked to transform the shoe/boot into an animal/creature w/ an environment.   They are in progress, but I thought I'd share what they have so far.  

Day 2 on TP Monsters: 1st Grade

 I gave my students a second day to work on their monster/creatures, but I was a bit concerned.  A second day with Kindergarten & 1st Grade students can sometimes mean over working the surface...aka MAKIN' A MESS OF THINGS!?!?!  I was pleasantly surprised by my 1st graders.  Maybe the leap to 2nd grade has already happened?!?!  Most of them did a wonderful job of adding to their pieces without over adding!  

Paper Sculpture Creatures: 1st Grade

These are my teacher examples.  

I don't know if I've ever posted pictures of my teacher examples because I mainly want to show off my student work!  

I was just having too much fun with this project though & thought I'd share!! 

You will see the blue guy again down below...one of my students must have really liked my example. ha ha

They start with a TP roll, a pipe cleaner, and full access to the scrap box.  Half way through the class I start having students bring their little monster/creatures up to glue googlie eye balls on.  They pick what they want & where they want them...and I hot glue them on(googlie eyes & Elmer's glue are not friends!!).  We talked about how they could be inspired by emotions, animals, monsters, or aliens.  Next week we'll be finishing them up, and creating a landscape collage for them to live in!