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Semester of Art Appreciation & Crafts With Stories

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Svetlana Khmelnitsky
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In this ongoing semester long course, each week students will get acquainted with famous art by one new artist, listen to the story, play games, and create crafts.

Class Experience

US Grade Pre-Kindergarten - 2
Beginner Level
  • Children will: • learn a few facts about artists • learn (or review) what artists do • practice their observation skills • exercise their fine motor skills while working on an art project • be encouraged to use their imagination throughout the class.
For Week 1 (Goya's Paintings)
Materials for Craft:
•	Play dough or modeling clay in different colors
•	Cardboard sheet about 7 x 9 inches (cut out from cookie box or cereal box) 
•	Jar lids like ones from jam, mayo, or peanut butter
•	Part of paper towel tube  or toilet paper about 2.5 inches tall
•	Small stickers
•	Scotch tape
•	Markers or crayons 
•	Glue
•	For the warm season: 2-3 flowers like dandelions; for the cold season: 2-3 medium size leaves or 1-2 cut short fir tree's (or pine tree's) branches


For Week 2 (Van Gogh Paintings)
Materials for Craft:
1.	Cardboard sheet about 9 X 6 inches or a big PAPER plate
2.	White (or pink) playdough + green playdough
3.	A twig shaped like a small tree (without leaves)
4.	Markers
5.	Scissors
6.	Scotch tape


For Week 3 (Monet's Paintings) 
Materials for Craft: 
•	Cardboard sheet (could be cut out from cereal box) about 7x9 inches
•	Blue and Green construction paper
•	Napkin OR Tissue Paper (preferably in one of the following colors: white, blue, pink, or yellow)
•	Glue 
•	Small scissors
•	Scotch tape
•	Markers 


For Week 4 (Renoir's Paintings)
Materials for Craft:
1.	A jar lid OR a cardboard cutout circle (about 5 inches in diameter)
2.	Playdough (2 different colors; one might be red or pink)
3.	Plastic drinking straw (optional) 
4.	Small piece of aluminum foil (optional) 
5.	Old greeting card (optional) 
6.	Small buttons, beads, sequins, plastic bread bag clips, or any other small decorative materials 
7.	Scissors 


For Week 5 (Mary Cassatt's Paintings) 
Materials for Craft:
•	Paper towel tube OR toilet paper tube
•	Napkins OR tissue paper 
•	Aluminum foil 
•	Small piece of cardboard OR jar lids of any kind (like from jam, mayo, or peanut butter)
•	Construction paper
•	2-3 pipe cleaners OR drinking straws OR  old pencils
•	Small stickers (optional)
•	Scotch tape
•	Markers or crayons 
•	Glue


For Week 6 (Rousseau's Paintings)
Materials for Craft:
•	Shoe box WITHOUT LID OR TOP  (please cut it off if attached)
•	Playdough 
•	Wide blades of grass and/or multiple leaves in oval shape OR any kind of green plants
•	In winter (when there are no green plants), substitute with any of the following: construction paper, tissue paper, clay, playdough, pipe cleaners
•	Glue 
•	Crayons or pencils 
•	Scotch tape


For Week 7 (Klimt's Paintings) 
Materials for Craft: 
1.	2 pages of white  paper
2.	Cut out a face of a man and/or a woman about 2x2 inches (could be a cut out from a newspaper or magazine)
3.	Scraps of construction or any other colorful paper preferably in bright, shiny colors (even aluminum foil!)
4.	Scraps of wrapping or any other paper with patterns on it (colorful cut-outs from magazines work great too!)
5.	Sequins, confetti, glitter, or any other small sparkling and bright decorations (optional)
6	Pencil
7	Scissors
8.	Glue
9.	Markers 


For Week 8 (Klee's Paintings)
Materials for Craft:
1.	Cardboard sheet (cut out from cookie box or cereal box)
2.	Empty Kleenex tissue box (ANY shape)
3.	Scraps of construction or any other colorful paper
4.	Plastic bread bag clips (optional)
5.	Scissors
6.	Glue
7.	Markers 


For Week 9 (Picasso's Sculptures:)
Materials for Craft:

ANY assembly of recyclable objects. Here are some suggestions.

•	boxes that could be easily cut (like boxes from cereal, cookies, tea, soap, cosmetics, toothpaste, etc.) 
•	paper towel rolls (OR toilet paper rolls)
•	plastic containers (yogurt cups, cottage containers, fruit cups, pint-size plastic berry baskets, etc.)
•	plastic bottles of any size
•	Magazine or newspaper pages 
•	Wrapping paper 
•	Construction paper 
•	Old greeting cards
•	Jar lids or plastic bottle caps  
•	Any other small items that could be glued or attached with scotch tape (examples: beads, buttons, pompoms, paper clips, bread bag clips, etc.)

Basic items:
•	Glue 
•	Small scissors
•	Scotch tape
•	Markers or crayons
•	Play dough or modeling clay 


For Week 10 (Arcimboldo's Portraits)
Materials for Craft:
•	Cardboard about 10 X 10 inches
•	Pencil
•	2 - 4 short pine branches
•	1 big pinecone 
•	A few leaves or some blades of grass
•	2 acorn cupules (acorn “cups”)
•	Short twigs
•	Any other light weighted natural materials or leaved plants 
•	Playdough
•	Glue 
•	Scotch tape
For the craft portion of the class, parental help is required for younger students (ages 4-5) and recommended for older students (ages 6-8) due to the use of scissors. 
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Ages: 4-8
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