3D Stuffed Turkey Thanksgiving Art Lesson

 3D Stuffed Turkey Thanksgiving Art Lesson

Students create their turkey drawing, they copy it and make a mirror image of it.

(I let the students trace on top of the first one and reverse it)

Then we color them in, "stuff" them with newspapers and hang them up in the classroom.

The students love this lesson and you can do it with anything, I have a lesson with tropical fish and "stuffing" them.

Pop Art 'Build a Burger' Lesson

 Build-a-Burger - Pop Art Burger Collages (12” x 18”)

Artist Focus: Claes Oldenburg

Special Ed - High School

Field trip to Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), viewing “Regarding Warhol” Pop Art exhibit and taking students to Shake Shack to purchase burgers (ADL skills)

Kandinsky's Concentric Circles Collage

Wassily Kandinsky's Concentric Circles Art Lesson 

Medium: Collage

Special Education Elementary School-age

NYS Visual Arts Learning Standards:

Standard 1: Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Arts Students will actively engage in the processes that constitute creation and performance in the arts (dance, music, theatre, and visual arts) and participate in various roles in the arts.
Standard 2: Knowing and Using Arts Materials and Resources
Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources available for participation in the arts in various roles.
Standard 3: Responding to and Analyzing Works of Art
Students will respond critically to a variety of works in the arts, connecting the individual work to other works and to other aspects of human endeavor and thought. 

NYC Blueprint Strands for Visual Arts:

Art Making - Collage, demonstrating composition 

Developing Art Literacy - Looking at and discussing art

- Developing Visual Arts Vocabulary

Art and Science Interdisciplinary Lesson - Value Scale

Students used images of insect handouts and created a drawing. Then we used rulers to intersect the insects. Each sections had to have a different value. We went over what a value scale was. Students practiced creating a value scale from light to dark on a given handout with boxes labeled. This lesson was done with Special Ed High School students. 

Mothers Day/Spring 3D Flowers

3D Mother's Day/Spring Flowers

Special Education - Elementary school age

A focus on fine and gross motor skills

Valentine's Day Hand Hearts

Valentine's Day Hand Heart Cards

A focus on gross and fine motor skills

Special Education - Elementary School Age

2nd Grade