Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Magic Carpets

Kinder: Magic Carpets

Kinder students learned about Dhurri rugs from India. These are handmade rugs that have been made in India for hundreds of years. They have many lovely designs on them. Kinder has been learning about many different kinds of lines, including straight, curvy, zig zag, dot-dot and broken/dashed line. 

For this art work, kinder students drew different lines on their "carpet" with cool colors. Next step was painting over their carpet with warm colors with "slide and glide" watercolor painting. I have found white cardstock good when watercolor paint needs to blend together, so that is what students used for this.  Students painted stripes all around the edge of their carpets in gold and silver tempera paint. Lastly, students added green and blue yarn to the corners (holes were pre-punched in the cardstock). This was simply a "pull the ends of the yarn through the loop" attachment. Yarn was the trickiest part but I had kinder students help each other on this and I did a step-by-step on it. Some students ended up typing yarn, but that looked fine also.

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