Tales With Fine Art and Crafts: Art Appreciation.
In this ongoing course, each week students will get acquainted with famous paintings by one new artist, listen to the story, play games, and create crafts.
Svetlana Khmelnitsky
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5.0
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What's included
1 live meeting
55 mins in-class hours per weekClass Experience
US Grade Pre-Kindergarten - 2
Beginner Level
This ongoing class will meet once a week. Every week students will listen to a story that will include paintings by famous artists, like Klee, Goya, Van Gogh, Klimt, Monet, and Arcimboldo. Kids will learn a few facts about each artist, discuss their paintings, and play the "I Spy" game. In the second portion of each class, children will make crafts inspired by the artworks presented earlier. Students will need basic materials for the crafts (please see the supply list for each class). Each week's artist: Week 1: In Goya's Kingdom: the Life of Nobility Through Goya's Eyes. Week 2: Van Gogh Paintings: One Fine Day in the Life of a Young Girl Week 3: Visiting Monet's Garden: an Enchanting Adventure Through Impressionists' Landscapes. Week 4: Golden Fairy Tale: Discover Klimt's Paintings and Get Inspired Week 5: Cat and Bird: Fun Adventures With Paul Klee's Paintings. Week 6: Having Fun with Arcimboldo's Unbelievable Portraits. 🎨✂️🤩 My goal is threefold: to familiarize children with famous works of art, to inspire creativity, and to make kids realize that they are artists who can make their own choices about their creations. Class is appropriate for (𝐂𝐄𝐅𝐑: B1, B2, C1, C2) PLEASE MAKE SURE TO CHECK THE LIST OF MATERIALS NEEDED FOR EACH CRAFT. ALSO, PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT FOR THE CRAFT PORTION OF THE CLASS, PARENTAL GUIDANCE IS REQUIRED FOR YOUNGER STUDENTS (AGES 4-5) AND RECOMMENDED FOR OLDER ONES (AGES 6-7) ) DUE TO USE OF SCISSORS AND OTHER MATERIALS.
Learning Goals
Students will do the following:
• learn a few facts about artists
• learn or review what artists do
• learn or review what types of art are called still life, landscape, and portrait
• name shapes and colors
• consider how different paintings make them feel
• practice their imagination and creativity
Other Details
Parental Guidance
For the craft portion of the class, parental help is required for younger students (ages 4-5) and recommended for older students (ages 6-7) due to the use of scissors.
Supply List
For Week 1 (In Goya's Kingdom) 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 (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 5 (Cat and Bird) 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 6 (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
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Joined August, 2020
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Teacher expertise and credentials
I am a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia with bachelor degree in Psychology. Also, I studied Early Childhood Education in Israel and Ukraine.
Before I started teaching on Outschool, I've being teaching creativity classes inspired by classical music and fine art in afternoon preschool program working with Pre-K through 2 Grade children. Earlier, I was a homeschooling mom for 7 years.
I believe that childhood is the best time to inspire human creativity. By regularly exposing children to works of art and classical music as well as helping kids to process their experiences through games, crafts, and dramatic play, adults have an opportunity to cultivate their creativity.
I LOVE reading books in general and children's literature in particular. I think there are so many great and beautiful kids' books waiting to be discovered. I also love co-creating with the kids: bouncing my ideas of theirs.Reviews
Live Group Class
$13
weekly1x per week
55 min
Completed by 42 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 4-8
1-4 learners per class
