Semester of Art Appreciation & Crafts With Stories
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.
Svetlana Khmelnitsky
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What's included
10 live meetings
9 hrs 10 mins in-class hoursClass 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 includes paintings by famous artists: Goya, Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Rousseau, Klimt, Picasso, Klee, and Arcimboldo. Students will learn a few facts about each artist, discuss their paintings, and play games with artworks. In the second portion of the class, children will make crafts inspired by the works of art presented during the first part of the class. The topics for crafts will be suggested, but not restricted to the teacher's ideas. In general, the crafts will be open-ended. Students will need basic materials for crafts (please see the supply list for each class). Each week's topic: 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: Loving Paintings of Renoir: Family Life in the "Old Times" Week 5: Woman Impressionist: Women and Children in Mary Cassatt's Paintings. Week 6: Travel to the Jungle With Henri Rousseau's Art Week 7: Golden Fairy Tale: Discover Klimt's Paintings and Get Inspired Week 8: Cat and Bird: Fun Adventures With Paul Klee's Paintings. Week 9: Picasso's Sculptures Made of Junk: Repurposing and Creating Week 10: Having Fun with Arcimboldo's Unbelievable Portraits. Class is appropriate for (𝐂𝐄𝐅𝐑: B1, B2, C1, C2)
Learning Goals
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.
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 6-8) due to the use of scissors.
Supply List
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
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
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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
$12
weekly or $120 for 10 classes1x per week, 10 weeks
55 min
Live video meetings
Ages: 4-8
1-4 learners per class
