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The last art class before Mardi Gras we have a party - New Orleans
music, a King Cake with a plastic "baby" inside and crown the
king or queen of Mardi Gras (whoever gets the piece with the baby inside).
I also pass out doubloons and beads - I buy them at Accent Annex online
- pretty cheap. I also decorate the room with various things I have
collected for this - foil umbrella glitzy wall figures, craw fish
whatever. You could also make doubloons out of clay, etch design, fire
and paint metallic.
Another thing I have wanted to do is to make small "floats"
and use say, Barbie and Ken dolls as the king and queen but I only see
my students once a week and there has never been any time left for
that.
Art of India
- lesson ideas from Sky McClain Art
of Japan - lesson ideas page. Also see Sky
McClain Art Room Art of
Africa
From Jeryl Hollingsworth La
France Elementary School South Carolina
African Animal Batik
Grade level: 1st grade (adaptable to other grades)
 
From Jeryl: We read the book African Animal ABC and they drew
the animals on a square of muslin with q-tips and melted crayons ( I have
crayon melters). White cotton fabrics work best. You can also use real
cheap brushes (available in quantity from Sax - they come in a clear
plastic canister) Then we crumpled them dropped them in a pail of dye. I
used a different color for each class. I had some service learning
students from the high school iron them between newspaper. I pinned them
to a big piece of burlap so it looked like a quilt to display them.
Note from Judy: muffin pan on top of a warming plate can be used to melt
crayons - be careful they don't get too hot (remove from heat if they
start to smoke). Have proper ventilation when melting wax...and stress
safety around cords.
From Jeryl's World's Fair:
Each grade did a different continent in their studies and I matched it in
art. Fifth grade did castles because they were Europe. I did a power point
with lots of castles to look at and we used some pages from Jay Conley,
Sharpies and water color. Kindergarten did Australia and I
read them some cute Koala books and we did dry
brush to make
the texture. It was amazing how well they understood it. They painted along with me. We also did bark painting.
(crumpled
paper bags dipped in water-painted with good old South Carolina red mud and then
q-tips dipped in white tempera. They drew their animals first with
Sharpies.
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