Welcome to Lines, Dots, and Doodles. This is the place for students, parents, and teachers to find out what has been going on in my art class. I have included pictures of my student's artwork and basic explanations of the projects. I hope when you leave this blog, you feel inspired to create. Feel free to browse this blog and borrow any of my art lessons.


Sunday, November 15, 2009

Abstract Paintings, Pre-K


My Pre-K students, in my opinion, is the hardest group to create lessons for. I love these students, but creating lessons developmentally appropriate for them has always been a challenge for me. I really like how these turned out, however. It truly is one of the first Pre-K lessons that I have been very satisfied with and will likely repeat in the future. This lesson was all about teaching these students how to paint with watercolors. I began by telling them the Paul Klee quote, "A Line is a Dot that Went for a Walk." We started with a black crayon and walked a line all around our paper. Then students used watercolors to fill in the space. Some students tried to fill in the spaces neatly inside the lines, but others did not. I was fine with what ever they wanted to do. I encouraged them to use as many colors as possible, but to try not to put colors on top of each other. It is easy for these students to start with a colorful picture and then put too many colors on top of each other.

2 comments:

  1. I have been a pre-k teacher for the last 9 years of my 23 year teaching career. i have lots of successful art projects that my students have done. I would be glad to share them with you! And when I say art projects, I do not mean anything with a ditto or pattern, my art activites are all open ended.

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  2. Hello Mrs. C. I would love project ideas. I often search the internet for good art project for pre-K, but normally I find the projects to be too cookie cutter. I want my student's art to be truly creative and origional. I would love any suggestions.

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