Design a chips bag

 You need:

1. drawing paper 
2. pencil
3. pictures of chips bags 
4. color pencils
5. black marker 

Look at chips bags and discuss what stands out. 

• the name of the chips is usually at the top of the bag
• the name is large and sometimes in 3D letters 
• bright colors
• taste and weight is on it
• it has an image of one or more chips 
• special features can be on it, like New, Party Pack or Less Fat 

Draw the wavy outlines of a chips bag. Think of a name and flavor for your chips. Draw the name on the bag in large 3D letters. Draw some chips on the front. Write the weight on the bag and some details. 

Color with color pencils or aquarel pencils. Outline letters and details with a fine black marker. 

Thanks to Pascal Cuijpers and his students (Connect College, Echt - NL) for this lesson. 

Still life with fruit

door leerlingen van groep 5

You need:

1. corrugated cardboard
2. scissors
3. white drawing sheet
4. tempera paint
5. brush
6. glue
7. colored construction paper

Vies and discuss still lifes of fruit in different styles (for example Caravaggio and Cezanne). How is the fruit arranged? Why at that way? Which parts are light and which parts are dark? What does that mean? 

Provide each group of students with a bowl of different fruit types. Students paint the fruits (no drawing first!) after a good observation. 

Cut a fruit bowl out of the cardboard. Cut out the fruits with a small white edge. Stick the fruits on a colored sheet, be sure to let them overlap each other. Stick the cardboard bowl. Some fruits will partly disappear in it. 

Elements of art: space, color, value. 

In 'The Factory' of Andy Warhol

made by students of grade 1

You need: 

1. colored paper 12 by 12 cm
2. black construction paper 50 cm by 15 cm 
3. tempera paint
4. brushes
5. apples
6. glue
7. black marker 

Tell about Andy Warhol's Factory. 

First lesson: "We are going to work today in the factory of Andy Warhol. Choose four colored sheets. Make apple prints in complementary colors: on a blue sheet you print an orange apple, on a red sheet you print a green apple etc."

Let dry and paste the colored sheets on black construction paper.

Second lesson: make a second print in a complementary color: on the orange apple you print a blue one etc. Let dry. Outline the apples with a black marker and add seeds and stem. 

Blue dotted paper mache plates and bowls

 

You need:

1. plate or bowl
2. newspaper strips
3. wallpaper paste
4. white wall paint
5. tempera paint
6. cotton swabs

Cover newspaper strips with wallpaper paste on bowl or plate. Be sure to have 6 layers. Let dry.

Remove the paper mache carefully. Paint it white with wall paint. Let dry.

Use cotton swabs to print patters of blue dots. 

Fruit in complementary colors

You need:

1. white sheets 20 by 20 cm


2. pencil


3. ruler


4. oilpastels


5. watercolor paint


6. brushes


7. jar with water

This lesson is originally from Miriam Paternoster's fantastic art lesson website: Arteascuola. 

Follow the link for a description of this lesson and be sure to look around there for more great art lessons!

By students of grade 4

Popsicles

Made by a student of grade 5

You need:

• water colour paint


• drawing sheet 25 x 25 cm


• brush


• white crayon


• jarswith water

Dras six popsicles with a white crayon on a white sheet. Paint them with watercolour paint. Paint the background blue, leaving an edge from about 2 cm white.

Still life fruit

Made by a student of grade 4

You need:

1. acrylic paint 


2. canvas


3. brushes


4. bowl with fruit

Talk about still life paintings and show some artworks from famous still life painters. 

Tell students it's all about composition and colour. 

Place a bowl filled with fruit on a table. Students paint this bowl on their canvas. 

Veggies

Made by a student of grade 3

You need:

1. veggies


2. white drawing sheet


3. liquid watercolour paint


4. crayons


5. indian ink


6. brushes


7. jar with water

Talk about veggies and why we all have to eat them. Show several veggies.



Use crayons to draw several veggies on your sheet. No overlapping.  Just draw the outlines, don't colour them with crayons.

Colour with liquid watercolour paint. Use two colours to make the paint bleed.

Paint the background dark grey with dilluted indian ink.