May. 31, 2007
Snakesss art project
This is one of my treasures from ATIC. It has a lot of great simple projects in it. We hadn't done any art projects for awhile so we got right to work!  We started with a warm up that is not in the book. Dividing a piece of copy paper into six squares we spent some time experimenting with patterns, one pattern to each square. This gets those creative juices flowing and ready, instead of them kicking in half way through the project then wishing you had thought of that great idea at the beginning! Next you draw a wriggly line across a piece of paper, making sure it crosses the whole page, and turn it into a snake. Don't make little teeny snakes in the middle. You also want the snake to be fat enough so there is room inside to add the design. Always fill the whole page when you are drawing. The head is a fat heart with a blunt tip if it's a poisonous snake, or a long skinny one if it's not. Decide on a pattern and fill in the snake with it. Now do another snake that slithers under the first snake a time or two. Use a different pattern on the second. Just one more snake slipping under the others and you are done. Any more snakes and it just looks crowded and messy. This is Timothy's. He wished he didn't get quite so crazy on the curves. That is how they learn, though. I have a really hard time sometimes not telling them not to do it this or that way, but do it like that, oh it would look better this way, adding my own touches. But they don't learn that way. If they ask I may give some very general ideas just to get them going, or on a separate piece of paper a quick example. They do learn a lot from watching each other and seeing how it turns out if you do things differently.  Here is Aria's. This is actually her second try, she wasn't happy with the first, but she got tired before she did the last snake on this one.  Here is Willow's.  Autumn's..............  mine.  I love doing these things together. I love to hear my children chatting happily to each other about their drawing, and making up stories about it as they go. I just don't know what I would do with myself if they were gone at school all day! I love having them around and spending time with them.......it is such a blessing to watch them grow and learn. I feel sorry for all those parents out there that barely know their children. Have a blessed day! Amy |
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Jun. 1, 2007 - Untitled Comment
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