Kindergarten

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Kindergarten

• Core Knowledge Visual Art Component

• Elements of Art, Color, Line, Sculpture,
• Looking and Talking about Works of Art

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Visual Art as aCore Knowledge Subject

• Elements of Art
• Color
• Line
• Sculpture
• Works of Art
• Looking at Art
• Talking about Art

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• your child will come to understand that, while
  art is doing, it is also seeing and thinking.
• By looking closely at art, and talking about it,
  your child will begin to develop a love of art
  and a habit of enjoying it in thoughtful, active
  ways.
• -E.D. Hirsh Jr. from What a Kindergarten Needs to
  Know

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Media Cast New videos that will help
Kindergarten this year include but are not
limited to
Who is the Artist? Artists of Line and Color Public Sculpture American Legacy
For the Love of Art
Clay Fun
Tissue Paper Creations

Mobiles How to Create Them

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School Wide Art Show 2008-2009

• The winners of the individual school art shows
  will be framed and displayed downtown at the
  Center for the Arts May 2.

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Think Outside the Box

• Stay in the Circle

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• Sit Up
• Lean Forward
• Activate Your Mind
• Nod Your Head
• Track your Teacher.

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Safety First
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Always come to school in clothes you are ready
to learn in. - Mrs. Cliburn 2nd Grade Teacher
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• The law of the echo.

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• For the kindergarten, art should mostly take the
  form of doing drawing, painting, cutting and
  pasting, working with clay and other materials.
• Beyond looking at art and talking about art do
  try to provide your child with materials and
  opportunities to be a practicing artist!
• Be positive in responding to your childs
• Reactions
• Questions
• Feel free to go beyond the questions provided
• Follow the path of your childs curiosity.
• - E.D. Hirsh Jr. from What a Kindergarten Needs
  to Know

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Portfolio

• Fold in half
• Write your name, grade level school
• in big block letters with the big markers
• Fill the Space Be Creative

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My Portfolio
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My Kindergarten Student Portfolio
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Quarter 1
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What do Artists Do?

• Do you like to play with
• Clay?
• Drawing pictures?
• Build with blocks?
• When you do these things...
• youre making art!
• People have been making art since the earliest
  times.
• In fact, making art is one thing that makes
  people different from animals.
• Can a cat draw?
• You can!

• People who create art are called artists.

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What do Artists Do?

• Some artists
• draw with pencil on paper
• paint pictures
• Maybe youve painted on paper with
• Brushes
• Watercolors paint
• Many painters use oil paints to paint pictures on
  canvas.
• Canvas is a material that is
• Thick
• Tough

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What do Artists Do?

• Other artists make statues these artists are
  called sculptors.

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What do Artists Do?

• Other artists produce what s called a collage
  when they
• Cut paper into pieces
• Cut other materials, such as cloth, into pieces
• Then they glue the pieces onto a surface.
• One thing that all artists need is imagination.

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Collage Project

• You can make a collage too.
• The only things you need are
• Paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• Be Creative

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Color, Color Everywhere!

• What color are your eyes?
• What colors are the clothes youre wearing?
• What color is a school bus?

• What color is the sky today?
• The world is alive with color.

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Color, Color Everywhere

• How many colors can you name?
• When we think of some things, we think of their
  colors.
• When we think of the sky, we think of blue.
• What colors does grass make you think of?

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Color, Color Everywhere

• How about ketchup?
• Color can make a big difference in the way we see
  some things.
• Would you like to dip French fries in green
  ketchup?
• Wouldnt it be funny to drink blue milk?
• You can put a few drops of blue food coloring in
  a glass of milk and try it.
• It tastes the same, but does it look right?

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Blue Atmosphere

• Some artists
• Use color in their paintings.
• Dont include people or things.
• Helen Frankenthalers Blue Atmosphere is a
  painting made up of colors.
• The colors seem to float in the air because of
  the special way the artist put the paint of the
  canvas.

Blue Atmosphere
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Blue Atmosphere

• Thought the artist called this painting Blue
  Atmosphere, theres a lot of red in it.
• The fiery red seems to be pushing back the cool,
  deep blue.
• What name would you give this painting?

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Color Project

• You can make your own color paintings with
• 1 Sponge
• Paper
• Tempera
• Poster paints
• Take a sponge, wet but not dropping, and run it
  over the paper.
• Then dip your brush in the paint.
• Let the paint drip onto the paper.
• Do this with several colors.
• What happens?
• The paint drops spread out and mix together.
• Now, what will you call your color painting?

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• A really good picture looks as if its happened
  at once.
• - Helen Frankenthaler

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Follow That Line!

• You may not notice it unless youre looking for
  it, but youre surrounded by lines.
• Lines are all around us
• In nature
• In art
• You make lines every time
• You write your name
• Draw a picture

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Follow That Line!

• Lines on the street tell cars what side to stay
  on.
• Sidewalks are filled with
• Lines
• Cracks
• Zebras are striped with lines.
• Bare tree branches make lines against the sky.
• Look at your hands theyre covered with thin
  lines.
• Lines come in all kinds
• Straight
• Curved
• Zigzag
• Wavy

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Different Kinds of Lines

• Each kind of line has it own personality.
• Straight lines point us in a direction,
• like an arrow.
• Curved lines make us think of motion,
• like a ball rolling.
• Zigzag lines are full of energy,
• like a bolt of lightening.
• Wavy lines can be calm,
• like waves lapping on a beach.

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Line Project

• Hunt for lines where you live.
• Do you see straight lines around
• Windows?
• Doors?
• Curved lines around
• A clock face?
• Can you find any zigzag or wavy lines in
• Curtains
• Now make a line book.
• Youll need paper and crayons.
• Using as many colors as you want
• On two pages draw straight lines.

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People and Dog in the Sun

• Artists used lines in different ways.
• Heres a painting by Joan Miro (ZHU-ahn mih-ROW)
  in which the lines are easy to see.
• But what is it a painting of?
• The title will help you.

People and Dog in The Sun
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People and Dog in the Sun

• Miro called his painting People and Dog in The
  Sun.
• Miro believed in painting what he saw in his
  dreams.
• Dreams can be a little strange.

People and Dog in The Sun
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People and Dog in the Sun

• Lets look at the lines in Miros painting.
• Can you find some straight lines?
• How about some curving lines?
• Miro has lines come together to make shapes?
• What do you think the round red shape is supposed
  to be? (Think of the title.)

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People and Dog in the Sun

• Where is the dog?
• Use your finger to trace along the lines that the
  artist has used to draw
• The dog

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People and Dog in the Sun

• Use your finger to trace along the lines that the
  artist has used to draw
• The people
• If you turn the picture upside down, only then
  does the big boy stand on his feet!

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• I try to apply colors like words that shape
  poems, like notes that shape music.
• - Joan Miro

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The Purple Robe

• Now lets look at a painting by Henri Matisse
  (ma-TEECE).
• The first thing you might notice about The
  Purple Robe is the
• Bright colors
• Joyful colors

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The Purple Robe

• Now lets look at the lines in the painting.
• In The Purple Robe, look for the lines that are
  like each other.
• These repeating lines that are like each other.
• These repeating lines are called patterns.

The Purple Robe
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The Purple Robe

• Do you see the different patterns on the
  wallpaper behind the woman?
• One side has a pattern of straight lines, while
  the other side has a curvy pattern.
• Take you finger and trace the different lines.
• Look for the patterns dont forget
• The robe
• The vase on the table
• Can you find some patterns where you live?

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• Creativity takes courage.
• - Henri Matisse

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Tuning the Samisen

• Look at this picture by the Japanese artist
  Hokusai (HOE-coo-sye).
• Its made up completely of lines.
• What did Hokusai draw?
• You may not know exactly, but you probably
  recognize a person holding a musical instrument
  that looks a little like a banjo.
• Hokusai named this drawing Tuning the Samisen.
• Its a picture of a musician getting her
  instrument ready to play.

Tuning the Samisen
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Tuning the Samisen

• Can you find some thin lines in the drawing?
• How about some thick ones?
• Do some things in the drawing look soft to touch?
• Does anything look hard and smooth?

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Contour Line Project

• Find one of your favorite toys and put it on the
  table in front of you.
• You can use a
• Teddy bear
• Fire truck
• Doll
• Boat
• Whatever you like
• Look at your toy to see if it has any
• Straight lines
• Curved lines
• Wavy lines
• Zigzag lines
• Using a pencil, draw the outline of your toy.
• Keep making lines that show what your toy looks
  like.

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Different Types of Lines

• Matisse painted many lines
• Bold
• Thick
• See how different they are from the lines used by
  Miro in People and the Dog in the Sun
• Sharp
• Thin

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Mothers Helper

• This painting is by the Mexican artist Diego
  Rivera (dee-AY-go ri VAIR-a).
• Think about the title of the picture, Mothers
  Helper.
• What do you think the girl is helping her mother
  do?
• Look at the expressions of on the faces.
• How do you think the girl and her mother feel?

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Mothers Helper

• If they were to speak
• Who would speak first
• What do you think she might say?
• Look away from the picture and then quickly look
  back at it.
• What do your eyes see first?
• Are they drawn to the bright yellow-orange
  bouquet neat the center?
• Where else is the color repeated?
• What other colors did Rivera use?

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• I dream a lot.
• - Diego Rivera

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Warm Colors

• Some colors are warm, like
• Reds
• Oranges
• Yellow
• This doesnt mean that a red page is actually
  warm to the touch.
• It does mean that such colors can give us a warm
  kind of feeling.
• Warm colors, like red, orange, and yellow, might
  make us think of
• A fire engine
• Flames
• The sun
• Sandy beaches.

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Cool Colors

• Some colors are cool, like
• Blue
• Green
• Purple
• They make us think of
• The cool ocean.
• A shady lawn.
• While warm colors seem to jump forward, cool
  colors seem to be farther away.
• Paintings made up of mostly cool colors usually
  have a different feeling than those with mostly
  warm colors.

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Warm/CoolColor Project

• Separate your into warm and cool piles.
• Crayons
• Markers
• Colored pencils
• Oil pastels
• Then draw a picture of a tree using only warm
  colors.
• Next draw the same thing using only cool colors.
• When you look at your pictures, what thoughts do
  each of them bring to mind?
• Which is your favorite?

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Warm and Cool Colors Paintings

• Here are two painting
• One done with mostly cool colors.
• The other with mostly warm colors.

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Hunters in the Snow Cool Colors

• In Pieter Bruegel (BROY-ghel) the Elders
  Hunters in the Snow, what season is shown?
• Have you ever notice how there are fewer bright
  colors in winter than in spring?
• The artist tried to suggest the cold winter
  weather by using mainly
• White
• Black
• Brown
• The trees are bare.
• The icy gray-green of the frozen pond is matched
  by the dull color of the sky.

Hunters in the Snow

• Bruegel lived in the north of Europe, where the
  winters are
• Long
• Very cold

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Tahitian Landscape Warm Colors

• Many years after Bruegel, and far, away from
  Europe, there lived an artist by the name of Paul
  Gauguin (go-GAN).
• He spent part of his life on an island
• In the South Pacific Ocean called Tahiti.
• Where it never gets cold.
• In his painting called Tahitian Landscape,
  Gauguin used warm colors to make us
• Feel the hot sun.
• See the bright, clear skies.

Tahitian Landscape

• Look at Gauguin's painting and point to all the
  warm colors you can find.
• Red?
• Yellow?
• Orange?

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• The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the
  cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the
  note I seek in my painting..
• - Paul Gauguin

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Looking at Pictures Really Looking!

• Art is first and foremost
• Making
• Doing
• Children needs lots of time and materials to
• Draw
• Paint
• Cut
• Paste
• Work with clay

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Looking at Pictures Really Looking!

• But the love of art also develops through seeing.
• Looking at works of art and talking about them
  can be
• Rewarding
• Enjoyable
• As you look at art sometimes with adults help
  you need to
• Touch the pictures
• Tracing lines with your fingers
• Pointing out colors

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Le Gourmet

• The painting is by Pablo Picasso.
• A gourmet (gore-MAY) is someone who knows a lot
  about good food.

Le Gourmet
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Le Gourmet

• What is the little girl doing?
• What might be in her bowl?
• Does she like it?

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Le Gourmet

• What colors has Picasso used in this painting?
• What color did he use most?
• If you were going to make a painting using a lot
  of one color.
• What color would you use?

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• I dont say everything,
• but I paint everything.
• - Pablo Picasso

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Sculpture

• Sculpture are usually made of
• Clay
• Wood
• Metal
• Stone
• Plastic
• Have you seen any sculpture in your town or city?
• Sculptures come in all sizes, from figures as
  small as your thumb to works bigger than a
  full-grown tree.

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Sculpture Statues, Monuments, and More

• The second one shows a totem pole that was made
  by Native Americans who live near the Pacific
  Ocean.
• The statue and the totem pole are also called
  sculptures.

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Sculpture Statues, Monuments, and More

• A sculpture isnt flat like a painting.
• You can walk around a sculpture and look at it
  from all sides.

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Looking at Art

• Its fun to
• Look at art
• Talk about art
• You can really look at the pictures whether you
  see a painting
• In a museum
• A store
• A house
• Reproduced in a book
• Does the painting have one color that seems to
  stand out most?
• Pick out three colors and see how many places the
  artist has repeated them.

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Looking at Art

• Describe some of the line in the painting.
• Straight?
• Curved?
• Zigzag?
• Wavy?
• Thick?
• Thin?
• Clear?
• Blurry?
• Do any of the lines make a pattern?

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Looking at Art

• If there are people in the painting?
• What do their expression tell you about them?
• What might they be thinking or saying?
• Can you imagine a story about this painting?
  Would it be
• Happy?
• Scary?
• Funny?
• Serious?
• Mysterious?
• Something else?

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The Banjo Lesson

• This painting is by the African-American artist
  Henry O. Tanner.
• Can you see where he painted his name in the
  lower-left corner?

The Banjo Lesson
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The Banjo Lesson

• Who do you think these two people might be?
• What are they doing?

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The Banjo Lesson

• How do you think the man feels about the boy?
• What part if the painting has the most light?
• Where do you think this light might be coming
  from?
• Do you see how Tanner had made the two people
  stand out by shining the light around them?

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The Bath

• The woman who painted this, Mary Cassatt
  (ka-SAHT), was an American, though she lived most
  of her life in Paris (a big city in France).
• She loved to paint pictures of women and children
  together.
• When she painted this picture about one hundred
  years ago many people did not have running water
  and big bath tubs.
• Children were sometimes washed with water in a
  small basin.

The Bath
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The Bath

• How do you think the basin got filled with water?
• Is there something in the picture that someone
  used to fill the basin?

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The Bath

• Who do you think these two people might be?
• How does the women seem to feel about the child?
• Use your finger to trace some of the different
  lines you see in the painting.

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• some of us are born into the world with such a
  passion for line and color.
• - Mary Cassatt

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Compare Paintings

• The bath might remind you of the painting you
  just looked at, The Banjo Lesson.
• Can you think of some ways in which these
  paintings are alike?

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Sculpture Statues, Monuments, and More

• Look at these pictures.

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Sculpture Statues, Monuments, and More

• The first one shows a statue of one of our
  presidents, Abraham Lincoln.

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Sculpture Statues, Monuments, and More

• If its a small sculpture, like this blue
  hippopotamus, you can pick it up and examine it.
• An artist who creates a sculpture is called a
  sculptor.

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Statue of Liberty Copper Sculpture

• A very big statue is probably the most famous
  sculpture in the United States the Statue of
  Liberty.
• Miss Liberty was designed as a light house.
• Can you find her torch?

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Statue of Liberty Copper Sculpture

• Did you know people can walk
• Around the inside of it?
• Climb up to its head?
• The statue is made up of hundreds of sheets of a
  metal called copper.

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Statue of Liberty Copper Sculpture

• The copper covers a strong framework, of iron.
• It is one of the largest sculptures in the world.

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Clay Sculpture

• Have you ever made your own sculpture out of
  clay?
• You can make a more detailed cat and mouse like
  these by adding
• A few toothpicks
• Broom straws
• A little yarn

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Clay Sculpture Project

• Make a turtle sculpture.
• You will need
• Modeling clay or play dough
• Plastic knife or a pencil.
• Divide your clay into two parts.
• One part should be twice as big as the other one.
• Make two balls out of your clay.
• The big ball is going to be your turtles body,
  the little ball will be the head.
• Stand on your tiptoes and drop the big ball on a
  smooth floor.
• Now the ball of clay should have a flattened
  side.
• Pick up the clay and turn it over.

• Make legs by pressing the flattened ball at four
  corners.
• Turn the clay over and stick the smaller ball to
  the front of the larger ball, smoothing them
  together with your thumbs.
• Then you can make a design on the turtles back
  with a plastic knife or a pencil.
• To sign you sculpture, you can put your name or
  initials on the turtles stomach.

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Snap the Whip
Snap the Whip

• An American artist, Winslow Homer, painted this
  picture more than one hundred years ago.
• It shows boys playing a game at recess.
• In the game of Snap the Whip
• Children hold hands in a line
• Then they run behind a leader
• Who runs fast and turns quickly.
• You can get thrown out of the line!

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Snap the Whip

• Do you see the little red schoolhouse in the
  background?
• Does it look like your school?

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Snap the Whip

• Have you ever played this game?
• How can you tell the boys are moving?
• Name some of the colors in the painting.
• Do the colors seem mostly cool or warm to
  you?
• If you were going to be one of the children in
  the painting, which one would you be?
• Why?
• If you were to paint a picture of children
  playing a game
• What would you paint?
• What would your picture look like?

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• I prefer every time
• a picture painted outdoors.
• - Winslow Homer

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Childrens Games

• Pieter Bruegel painted this picture more than
  four hundred years ago.
• But many of the games it shows are still played
  by children today.

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Childrens Games

• Bruegel painted more than ninety different games
  in this single painting!
• Do you see any games you recognize or have played
  yourself?
• Can you find children playing marbles?
• Tug-of War?
• Leapfrog?
• Do you see the children walking on stilts and
  rolling hoops?

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Childrens Games

• If you have a magnifying glass, it may help you
  see the tiny figures.
• Of course, what youre looking at is just a small
  copy of the painting.
• The real painting is a whole lot bigger.
• About four feet high by five feet long.

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Childrens Games

• To see all of these games going on at once,
• Where would you have to be standing?
• What colors did Bruegel use for the childrens
  clothes?
• Do the children in the painting dress differently
  from the way you dress today?

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Mobiles

• Did you know that some sculptures can actually
  move?
• The American artist Alexander Calder invented the
  mobile.

Lobster Trap and Fish Tail

• Most sculptures stand still, but a mobile moves!
• Look at Lobster Trap and Fish Tail.

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Mobiles

• Which part do you think is meant to be the trap,
  and which the fish tail?
• Do the dark shapes at the bottom remind you of
  plants swaying under water?

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Mobiles

• Calder carefully balanced all the section of this
  mobile so that even the slightest breeze would
  push it shapes in one direction or the other.
• He also had to arrange the arms so that none of
  the parts would hit each other when they moved.

• Mobiles are fun to watch.

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• The sense of motion in painting and sculpture
  has long been considered as one of the primary
  elements of art.
• - Alexander Calder

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Mobile Project

• With an adults help, you can make a mobile.
• Youll need
• Two plastic drinking straws
• Four feet of string or fishing line
• Some cardboard (or heavy construction paper)
• Scissors
• Use a small piece of string to tie the two straws
  together to form an X.
• Then use about a foot of string to hang the
  mobile from.
• Draw four shapes or objects on the cardboard.
• You could make
• The moon
• The stars
• Your favorite animals
• Shapes like triangles, circles, and squares

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Mobile Project

• Whatever shapes you decide on, make them about
  the same size.
• Cut out the shapes and decorate them on both
  sides.
• Now ask an adult to help you punch a hole in the
  top of each shape.
• Cut four pieces of string, each about 10 inches
  long.
• Tie one end through the hole in each shape, and
  the other end to one of the ends of the crossed
  straws.
• Hang you mobile where there's a breeze and watch
  it move!

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Story Time
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Text References

• Text from
• Hirsh, Jr., E.D. (2006). What Your Kindergarten
  Needs to Know. New York, NY Bantam Dell Inc.
• ArtQuotes.net Online. Available
  http//www.artquotes.net.

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Photo-References

• Page 63, 78, 80 Blue Hippopotamus picture is
  taken from Wikipedia under Creative Commons 2.0
  license.
• Page 64-65,78 Totem Pole pictures is taken from
  Wikipedia under Creative Commons 2.0 license.
• Page 78-79 Lincoln Memorial picture is taken
  from Wikipedia under Gnu Free Documentation
  license.
• Page 18, 63 99-100 Alexander Calders picture is
  taken from Wikipedia under Gnu Free Documentation
  license.
• Page 95-97 Alexander Calders picture is taken
  from a flicker website located at
  http//www.flickr.com/photos/sabel/3307330788
• Page 46-47 Diego Riveras Mothers Helper
  picture is taken from Diego Riveras Biography
  website located at http//www.diego-rivera.org/bi
  ography.html
• Page 38-40, 45 Matisses Purple Robe picture is
  taken from Scituate website located at
  http//www.scituate.k12.ma.us/docent/mati3.htm
• Page 24-26 Helen Frankenthaler Blue Atmosphere
  picture is taken from Scituate website located
  at http//www.scituate.k12.ma.us/docent/abstr1.ht
  m
• Page 42-44 Hokusais Tuning the Samisen picture
  was taken from an Asian Educational website
  located at http//www.asia.si.edu/collections/zo
  omObject.cfm?ObjectId45211
• Page 84 The Student Cat and Mouse picture was
  made by Wallswizard67 in Grade 4 located at
  Artsonia.com art gallery.
• Page 20 The Student Collage picture was made by
  Anmalina2 in Kindergarten located at Artsonia.com
  art gallery.
• Page 20, 57, 67 The Student Collage picture was
  made by Brittany3372 in Grade 12 located at
  Artsonia.com art gallery.