Category Archives: Grade 4/5 Art Projects

These are the next step up in the art education process with even more advanced techniques and projects for grade 4 and 5 students

Enter, Notan.

Grade 5:  Flipping the Positive and Negative With Notan I recently purchased this book, Notan: The Dark-Light Principle of Design and even though I have so far only taken a rather cursory look at it – I found the images … Continue reading

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More Zendalas, Please

Grade 5:  Exploring Pattern with Zendalas This was a quick lesson to fill in with the grade 5’s as the 4’s were working on their Medieval castles.  There was less instruction on my part than the last time I taught … Continue reading

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Dabbling in Surrealism

Grade 5:  Learning Surrealism, Constructing Pictures Session 1 I came to the class with an example of a picture I had created using magazine cutouts in the style drawing from an art and cultural movement known as Surrealism, that began … Continue reading

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Class Letters

Grade 5 Paper Mache Letters with Action! Painting This was a project that took quite a while to complete, but the process was a good one, and had some fun moments along the way … We began with building the … Continue reading

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Why is Blue Dog, Uh, Blue?

I had to order the book from the States, but I knew I wanted to do an art project based on George Rodrigue’s  Why is Blue Dog Blue?.  Such a fun book.  His artwork illustrations just get you wantin’ to bust open … Continue reading

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Drawing Cylinders, Drawing Snakes

Grade 5 / Drawing Snakes The idea was to draw cylinders using a light source to render them 3 dimensional.  So, why not make them snakes?  Snakes coming out of the frame, even?! (Psst.  I found the idea at Fine … Continue reading

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Exploring Op Art / Doin’ the Wave

Grade 5 Op Art The grade 5’s were really jazzed to get at some art that messes with optics (they had been seeing some examples that I had posted on the board).  This one required some concentration on their part, but … Continue reading

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The More of Paper Masks

Grade 5 Paper Masks:  Taking it Further Part II. Class 5 & 6.  Just when they thought they were finished with masks, I had them work with them one more time.  The teacher and I paired up the students, with … Continue reading

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Paper Masks and More

Grade 5 Paper Masks:  Symmetry, Repetition, Layering Part I. This was an extremely popular project I did with two classes in two schools.  It spanned several week’s work, but the processes and results were well worth the investment of class … Continue reading

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Exhalation

Grade 5 Line Project/Exhalation About the same time as the Grade 6’s at St. Michael were wielding umbrellas, I had this class pantomime blowing/spewing/singing/laughing/calling:  exhalations!  As with the other class, I photographed them in two different poses, suggesting they think … Continue reading

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