Dot Day Project

In art this week we focused on "Dot Day." We read a story about a little girl who didn't believe she was an artist and couldn't create anything. Then she turned into an artist after she discovered that even her simple little dot was art.  We spent one whole class period experimenting with different art supplies to create our own dots. I really enjoyed creating different dots with paint.  

I also really liked doing bubble dots, bubble dots were easy, but messy.  All you have to do is mix a little bit of food coloring with bubbles and then just blow bubbles on to the paper.  The messy part comes in to play when the bubble would pop either before or as it hit the paper.  So as the bubble popped it would usually pop in your face.  

Below are some examples of my artwork from "Dot Day" 

Dot Collection Presentation 

Dot Collection Presentation 

Clay Dot

Bubble Dots

Watercolor paint- liquid starch

Crayon Resist 

                                               

                              











Extension Activities: 

1. For a math activity I would have students draw a dot and then find the radius and circumference of there dots. 
2. For Language Arts I would have kids look at pictures of different dots and then write a short story of what the dots are saying to them.  

Footprint Project

Project Explanation: 
Footprint Project is a project that could be used at the beginning of the school year to help a teacher get to know their students.  The footprint should include items that describe the person that the foot belongs to.  This way the teacher can see the students art abilities as well as learn about their background in a creative way.

Project Steps:

1. Plan out what you want to put on your foot/feet on a piece of notebook paper
2. Trace your foot/feet on a piece of construction paper the way you want them to look
3. Cut out your foot/feet
4. Place various mediums on your foot/feet to design it.
Medium Examples:

• Paint
• Markers
• Crayons
• Colored Pencils
• Stickers
• Construction Paper
• Glitter
• Beads
• Any other items that could be used to design it

*** You will want to place your items that you are gluing on your foot/feet before you glue them down so you will know if you have enough room.  

*** You will also want to use a hot glue gun or a piece of cardboard for the heavier items that you add to your foot/feet

5. Make sure all items are securely glued down

My Foot:

I chose to do both of my feet and then shape them into a heart.  I choose to do this because I feel like I have a big heart and am always trying to help people.  There is an owl and sunflowers on my feet because I love both of those things.  I love to read and have an enormous sweet tooth, so I put a book and an ice cream cone on my feet.  I teach ballet to kids ages 3 to 10 for JFK so I put stickers of ballerinas on my feet.  I also put stickers of birds and owls on there because I like to be outdoors.  I also did my feet in the color yellow because I love the color as well as the sun and its warmth.  

Extension Activities:

1. An idea for another activity would be to have the students introduce each other by drawing items that describe them. 

2. You could have students trace there hands and  make a butterfly out of it when they learn the life cycle of a butterfly.

3. When the students learn about the presidents they could trace there foot to describe that president and what he was like as a leader and a person.

*** You can use this project in many different ways, the endless possibilities are up to you!