Annie Monaghan's Art Room
  • Home
  • Elementary Art
  • Middle School Art
  • Camp projects
  • Lesson Plans
  • About Me
  • My Artwork
  • Art is everywhere!
  • Contact me
  • Professional

Kindergarten Name Snails

9/18/2015

1 Comment

 
Picture
First new blog of the new school year hooray!  This year has gotten off to a brilliant start and I am so excited about my talented students and the amazing art that they have already created and about seeing what they will make in the future!!!

To start off the new school year very strong, Kindergarten students created these awesomely adorable multimedia snails.  

We began by learning about lines.  There are many different sorts of lines, straight lines, curvy lines, curly lines, and spiral lines.  After practicing drawing spiral lines many times, students created a snail shell by using oil pastels to draw a very large spiral to fill their paper.  Next, they took on the task of filling the spiral with their name repeating.  This was a great exercise for Kinders to practice writing their name and also created an interesting pattern throughout the shell.  
After adding a head and tail with oil pastel as well, students used watercolor paints to make a colorful, fun snail.  They were very excited as they watched the watercolor and oil pastel resist and the drawings showed through the paint.
Once the snails were done, students carefully cut around the snail and glued it onto a blue (or black) piece of paper and drew some clouds.  Before adding the 'dirt' and 'grass,' we discussed texture.  Texture is what something feels like or what it looks like it feels like.  Kinders recognized that puppies may feel "soft, "fuzzy," and "squishy" whereas a tree bark may feel "rough," "hard," and "bumpy."  They glued down cut pieces of paper to create a dirty and grassy texture.
The favorite part of the project was probably adding the finishing touch of the silly goggley eyes.  What I have learned is that googley eyes make a kindergarten student a very, very happy student.


Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
1 Comment
Ann Jennings
10/1/2015 08:05:37 pm

Annie, I love your blog site and the photos and article you put together about the Snail project. Have you shared this with my students' parents yet? Or shall I forward this on to them? Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together. It's beautiful!

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Annie Monaghan.
    Art lover.
    Art creator.
    Art teacher.

    RSS Feed

    Categories

    All
    1st Grade
    2nd Grade
    3rd Grade
    4th Grade
    5th Grade
    Abstract
    Art History
    Art Videos
    Auction
    Batik
    Cardboard
    Chalk Pastel
    Clay
    Collaboration
    Collage
    Colored Pencil
    Color Wheel
    Contour Lines
    Drawing
    Highlights And Shadows
    Kindergarten
    Landscape
    Mural
    Names
    Notan
    Observational Drawing
    Oil Pastel
    Online Art
    Origami
    Paint
    Painting
    Papier Mâché
    Patterns
    Portraits
    Pre K
    Printmaking
    Relief Sculpture
    Remote Art
    Remote Learning
    Sculpture
    Self Portrait
    Self-portrait
    Sewing
    Shapes
    Sharpies
    Still-life
    Symmetry
    Texture
    Tissue Paper
    Warm And Cool Colors
    Watercolor
    Weaving

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.