Day 1: Look at Jasper Johns presentation together and talk about pop art. Ask students probing questions about what makes his number artworks interesting to look at. Back at tables, walk students through how to fold their drawing paper into 12 squares. On the board, demo how to do bubble numbers. Start with 0, demo on the board and have students mimic in the first box. Then move onto 1, so on and so forth. Have students use pencil for this.
Day 2: Have students choose 3-4 different oil pastel colors to use to color in their letters. Tell them that they must use each color at least once inside each number.
Day 3: Students should color each box individually behind the numbers. This is good practice for coloring around and not over the top of their numbers. Tell students that each box should have more than one color in it and each box should be colored differently.
See attached rubric.
This is a great tie-in to the Common Core Curriculum in math for kindergarten.
Before doing the oil pastel version, we practiced using crayons on a smaller piece of paper. This lead to a great discussion with students about the difference between oil pastels and crayons.
**For students with motor skill problems, I allowed them to trace the numbers with foam tracers first. This project then became practice in coloring in the lines.
THE STANDARDS
Visual Arts Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes
[K-4] Students know the differences between materials, techniques, and processes
[K-4] Students describe how different materials, techniques, and processes cause different responses
Visual Arts Standard 2: Using knowledge of structures and functions
[K-4] Students use visual structures and functions of art to communicate ideas
Visual Arts Standard 3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas
[K-4] Students explore and understand prospective content for works of art
[K-4] Students select and use subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning
Visual Arts Standard 5: Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others
[K-4] Students understand there are different responses to specific artworks
[K-4] Students understand there are various purposes for creating works of visual art
lpskeen07/04/2013 at 04:27am
OK my only question is, how do you (easily) teach children to fold paper into 12 squares? All the ones in the pictures here have 16.
Popjaws08/01/2019 at 01:37am
@lpskeen: draw several lines to assist: first two horizental ones, then 3 verticals. see if there are 12 squares :)
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