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2014-15 Projects for Fourth Grade:
December: Clay
Project: Clay Masks
Students will expand their skills with working clay in this activity. They’ll learn to roll out a sheet of clay, cut out shapes using tools, and attach shapes by scoring.
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January: Color
Project: Artist Trading Cards (ATCs)
Each student will have the opportunity to create 3 ATCs. Each ATC is a mini work of art. This project will likely take a bit of time to set up if you choose to let the kids use all the medium to create the cards – but as you read more about them, you will discover that the use of mixed media is highly emphasized.
Artist trading cards examples by Mark Dicey
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February: Shape
Project: Mosaics with Templates
Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It may be a technique of decorative art, an aspect of interior decoration, or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a cathedral. Small pieces, normally roughly cubic, of stone or glass of different colors, known as tesserae, are used to create a pattern or picture. In this lesson, students will create mosaic scenes using colored construction paper squares as their tesserae.
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Whoever you are—whether you’re a math guy,
into comics, like to build things, like to sew or doodle…the nice thing about modern art is that you can make any kind of art. ANY personality can be an artist!
March: Line
Project: Crayon/Chalk Skyline Transfer
Students will select a simple skyline (or other scene) from those placed around the room, or create their own, being sure to vary the types of lines in the drawing. From there, they’ll create a layered “transfer” surface using chalk and crayon in several colors. In the final step, they’ll overlay their drawing on the transfer surface and trace the line once more. They’ll end up with two pieces of art: a skyline in reverse on the colored surface, and a skyline in color on a white surface.
Artists manipulate line to create shapes, movement, location, direction, character, expression and more.
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