Hi Vicki I use powdered tempra which my kindies when I am taching secondary colors. I sprinkle a little of each color and give them and Ice cube and we...
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art_education@yahoogr...
Sep 1, 2007 9:08 am
List members, This is a monthly reminder about your options with the Art Education list group. Did you know you can configure your membership so that you get...
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Wanda Smith
artistwls
Sep 1, 2007 11:47 am
How about a small sketch or technique practice book? Use the Japanese binding technique, http://www.sdmart.org/pix/japanesebook.pdf. They could use their own...
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pent19
Sep 1, 2007 1:16 pm
My last few years during my high school experience, our school tested out block scheduling , by doing a part time block. Classes like gym, art, music, science...
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pent19
Sep 1, 2007 1:22 pm
You could make an art game . Match a picture of complementary colors to the term. or definition to term, artists artwork to the artists name, as a way to...
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linda mcconaughy
lmcconaughy
Sep 1, 2007 1:25 pm
This sounds like a fun challenge to pose to your students! ... January. Well they came in today. Thinking I was ordering 4 packets each of 3 x 5 and 4 x 6...
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Judy Decker
jdecker4art
Sep 1, 2007 3:16 pm
Dear Art Educators, Many of you have enjoyed Tricia Fuglestads video shorts. Here is a new one for Monochromatic: ...
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al haskvitz
reacheverychild
Sep 1, 2007 6:09 pm
Block scheduling has never been proven to be of value to core classes except in math. There is a lot of research on the Internet to this effect. In art it...
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cen_aca_dp
mrspicasso26
Sep 1, 2007 6:28 pm
We do a project for Patriot's Day (September 11) using index cards. I cut them to resemble gift tags & attach a loop of thread to one end. The students ...
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cen_aca_dp
mrspicasso26
Sep 1, 2007 6:33 pm
Here is something I have done with the stuff. :) Submitted by Denise Pannell, Defiance Lesson: Impasto Painting - Van Gogh "Pudding" Paint - for Impasto - from...
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Victoria Patterson
westshoredes...
Sep 1, 2007 6:55 pm
I fold them (or have the kiddos do it) in half horizontally with the plain side out. The first day of school, or first class, students put their name on...
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reen shannon
reenshannon
Sep 1, 2007 7:03 pm
I had a really bad experience with block scheduling although my situation may be different than yours. I teach at an alternative high school and for the first...
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Judith Stenger
artreach678
Sep 1, 2007 11:03 pm
This is my third year in a block schedule school ( thirty plus years of teaching), and I really love it. We alternate days, except the kids have math every...
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Anna K. Ball
annamagpie
Sep 2, 2007 1:10 am
Use them for making tesselation templates ala jim mcneill. see http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/mcneill.htm He has a GREAT video. anna in...
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wanda smith
artistwls
Sep 2, 2007 3:05 am
I mix the powder tempera in a blender, keeps down the dust and does a good job of mixing. I use it if I run out of a certain color during the school year. I...
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MaryAnn F. Kohl
brightring
Sep 2, 2007 3:12 am
I use it to make easy fingerpaint... Plop a puddle of liquid starch on a tabletop, plop some tempera powder on that, and let the kids paint with fingers right...
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Julie Casebourn
juliecas
Sep 2, 2007 3:48 am
I have used powdered tempra to create what I'll call... the poor man's marbleized paper... hahaha.. or the frugal art teacher's marbleized paper??? Of course...
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Julie Casebourn
juliecas
Sep 2, 2007 3:50 am
By the way, Dick Blick has an awesome and very, very cheap lesson on marbleizing paper on their website under the 2006 lesson plans section. It doesn't use...
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Linda
lindwoodwebtv
Sep 2, 2007 1:01 pm
I have had a 90 minute art period with grades 3-5 for years and love it. Kids love it too. At the beginning of third grade when the kids are experiencing the...
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klynblink182
Sep 2, 2007 1:12 pm
Before I became an art teacher I took art at my HS for 2 years. We had block scheduling. Having an 80 minute art class was nice and very productive. We...
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Brandy
bergiemoore
Sep 2, 2007 4:36 pm
-To help the students paint a mural, by adding MANY many together after the students have coloreded on them. As long as the design is on the card before they...
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Vicki Kolden
vickolden@...
Sep 2, 2007 6:39 pm
Thanks for all the great suggestions for the old Tempera powder. I guess I won't have to throw it all out. They put boxes and boxes of the stuff in my...
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Shellee
ndclay01
Sep 2, 2007 7:01 pm
Hi, I am searching for a lesson that I remember seeing on foreshortening. The project was to look down at your feet and draw the view using foreshortening....
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Anna K. Ball
annamagpie
Sep 2, 2007 7:03 pm
I have a couple of things. 1. A KWL-- what do you know about art? (k) what do you want to know about art? (w) and I leave the last part til the end of the...
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Barbara Davis
bdavis@...
Sep 2, 2007 7:07 pm
If you have a lot of powdered tempera you can do "lawn paintings" with it. My colleague has a great lesson plan that explains how the kids come to consensus on...
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Judy Decker
jdecker4art
Sep 2, 2007 8:44 pm
Dear Art Educators, Genie sent me her PowerPoint.... It is large file. I have put it on IAD temporarily. You may download it from this link: ...
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Terri Noell
terrinoell
Sep 2, 2007 11:27 pm
I mixed mine with beach sand and use it for all my students' sand art/painting progects...works great! Terri k-5 Florida ... ...
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Sarah Palmer
robertsonpal...
Sep 3, 2007 1:34 am
I give my students a questionnaire on the first day. I've attached it here...feel free to adapt it to your preferences. I find this information interesting...
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wanda smith
artistwls
Sep 3, 2007 12:06 pm
I think it is in an older Art and Activities if any one knows right off hand plese post it to the group. I do this every year with my art 1 students, they...
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ginayac
ginamarie_mo...
Sep 3, 2007 12:22 pm
Hi Everyone, I hope you all are off to a great start for the school year! I am curious to see how you all go about making Pinwheels for Peace. Last year I used...
