Silly Monsters

 Kinder: Silly Monsters

I read the book Go to Bed, Monster by Natasha Wing. Kinder students liked this humorous story about a monster that a girl draws that just does not want to go to bed. Finally, after drawing him a teddy bear and a bed, and reading him a story, the monster gets sleepy.  This was a really nice story to read in art class as the girl draws shapes first and the monster forms from the separate shapes and comes to life. The illustrations throughout the book are drawn as a child would draw them. 

Students also studied line-straight, curvy, zig zag and broken. We even added some loopty loops in there! Students also explored blue and yellow primary colors and discovered that green can be mixed and is called a secondary color. 

For this fun collage, students painted a 6" x 8" piece of sturdy cardboard. (These I cut down from the backing of construction paper packs). Students painted blue, then yellow, then mixed the green. We used the rhyme "blue and yellow make green, green is in the middle like a green bean; green is in the middle like a green string bean!" . Students liked this as you can imagine. Next class, students put a line onto 2 craft sticks (one large, one regular size). Students could choose any kind of line they had learned about thus far. Students then added color with oil pastels. I had pre-punched holes in the cardboard. Students put pipecleaners through the holes for "silly hair". We even made this into a line lesson. Students could have straight hair or curvy hair. Students glued google eyes and colored a cardboard nose with oil pastels. Students painted 2 old fashioned clothespins with red tempera for arms. These arms were glued on the next class. Students added additional line designs with oil pastels onto the monster face. 

These are really quite silly and very colorful!