Lines. Lines. Lines. Lines.
Lines are all around you and me! Long and short and thick and thin they'll be, curvy, wavy, broken, fancy, free! Look around how many can you see? Credit for this song goes to Scratch Garden's YouTube channel and the "Line Song"! Look it up with your child and refresh their memory about lines! We started the year off with the most basic element of art...you guessed it...LINE! The kids learned that lines are e v e r y w h e r e. They are even made up of lines! The most important lines I wanted them to learn are also the hardest to keep straight and that's horizontal - , vertical | , and diagonal \ . K-2 created magic carpets with lines! Kindergarten and first grade glued pre-cut colored construction paper on their black paper to create horizontal lines (some even chose to create a pattern!) and then drew the other 7 lines we learned about with a black marker. Second grade is a little more advanced, so they were challenged to cut their own paper into different lines and glue it down...no marker used here! Last, all grades had to add the "tassels" to the ends of their carpet (I think they liked this part the best) 3-5 worked as a table group to create one continuous line spanning over 4 different papers. Sound confusing? It's not! They had to line their papers up side-by-side and draw a line that continued on to the next person's paper. Then they outlined it...first with black marker to establish a nice thick line. Next, they outlined both sides of their black marker 4 times with 4 different colors. Finally, they sectioned off the background and created different line designs in each section! They used examples of zen tangles to get ideas. These turned out GREAT!! They were so bright and colorful! They then continued applying their knowledge of lines with line sculptures and "LINE-scapes". Our next unit is the element of art: S P A C E Thanks for visiting, be on the lookout for teachable moments at home about LINE!
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