The Art Chest

32   Fifteen minute programs
Grade(s): 1-3
Curriculum Area: Fine Arts

Designed to provide easy-to-follow techniques in arts and crafts, The Art Chest emphasizes creative expression while building a child's confidence and enjoyment in simple art projects. Common art materials are used, including crayons, pencils, chalk, tempera, clay, and string.

Teacher Guide: 64 pages includes objectives, classroom preparations, materials, program content, pre - and post viewing suggestions for the teacher and teaching illustrations for each program. 

Programs:

2. Drawing Without Lines
Students will learn the difference between drawing with and without contour lines.

3. Beginning Design
The elements of good design are illustrated.

4. Drawing Animals
The structure method and the contour method of drawing are presented.

5. Colored Chalk
Techniques of using colored chalk to draw, blend colors, and outline for effect are seen.

6. Sponge Painting
Various ways to use a sponge as a painting tool are illustrated.

7. Face Decoration
Masks are made using folded paper, curled paper and tempera paint.

8. Paper Tearing
Students learn to create designs involving texture and perspective by tearing paper.

9. Like Van Gogh
Brush strokes create movement, expression, motion and roundness. Crayon colors are blended together to create highlights.

10. Stylized People
Students will learn to draw and decorate a simplified human form.

11. Making It With Paper Strips
Students learn to cut, curl and glue paper.

12. Clay Bowls
Students learn the art of working with clay.

13. Make Your Own Wrapping Paper
Students use rubbing techniques on raised or textured paper.

14. Santa Claus Christmas Tree
Making this ornament illustrates the effects of tom paper versus paper cut with scissors.

15. What's Going on at Your House?
Paper sculptures and folding techniques are used to create a house.

16. Scrap Printing
Using scrap materials, students will learn printing techniques.

18. Blow Painting
Paint by blowing through a straw.

19, String Painting
Step-by-step techniques of string painting.

20. Finger Paint Designs
Students learn to use their hands, fingers, and thumbs as effective painting tools.

21. Your Very Own Mail Box
Paper folding, gluing and using masking tape as reinforcement are demonstrated.

22. Wet Chalk
A demonstration of blending colors and overlapping objects is featured,

23. Free Drawing
How known objects, such as letters and numbers, can be made into new objects by using the imagination.

24. Free Painting
Demonstrates various painting strokes using a water color brush, a dry brush, and a sponge.

25. Pipe Cleaner People
Develops an understanding of the proportion and bendable parts of the human body.

27. Our Bunny Friends
Techniques for drawing bunnies and making paper sculpture in 3-D form are illustrated.

28. Corsage for Mom
Paper sculpture techniques are featured.

29. Egg Decorations
Students will learn how to create different types of designs and how to repeat patterns.

26. Paper Bag Puppets
Creating puppets, students learn how various parts of the face move to create expression.

30. Paper Sculpture
Students learn symmetry in design as well as ways of curling construction paper.

31. T-shirt Design
Lettering layout, including letter and picture spacing, is the focus of this program,

32. Summer Craft Ideas
Imagination and home scrap materials are used in craft creations.

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