Art Pages for Rumpel

Art Lessons

Ideas garnered from the Sharing of the Fire Conference, Boston, MA, 2005

25.A.1d Visual Arts: Identify the elements of line, shape, space, color and texture; the principles of repetition and pattern; and the expressive qualities of mood, emotion and pictorial representation.

1. Spinning Straw Into Gold

Marble Painting I hadn't heard of marble painting so I looked it up on the Net. Here is what I found:

Marble painting is a popular method of painting for preschool aged children and up. The activity isn't too messy and the results are beautiful and always different.

AGE LEVEL: 2 years and up

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Cardboard box, with sides approximately 4 inches high.
A copy paper box lid is perfect, but any other box would work great too.

2. Paint, 3-4 colors is preferred

3. Spoon

4. 1-3 marbles for each color of paint

5. Paper -- just about any kind of paper will work, however, it works best with paper that is thicker than traditional copy paper.

SET UP

To protect your workspace, cover it with newspaper. Place a smock or old shirt on each child that will be participating in this activity. Place each color of paint on its own plate, and then put 1-3 marbles in each color of paint. Put one spoon into each color of paint.

PROCEDURE

Place a piece of paper in the bottom of the box. The better your paper fits the better. Have the child scoop the marbles out of each color and place them into the paper lined box. Next, have the child shake the box from side to side and tilt it up and down, creating a motion that has the marbles rolling all over the paper.

After the marble have distributed the paint on the paper, you will see a colorful display of lines and designs. Remove the marbles
from the paper and place them back on the paint plates so that they are ready for the next child. Remove paper from box and allow to dry completely.

Marble painted artworks looks great on your refrigerator or bulletin board, but it can also be used for other purposes such as book covers or wrapping paper. Be creative!
*At the workshop the participants said to use gold paint and a round cake pan to imitate the spinning of a spinning wheel.

Spin Painting (I found this variant on the Net, too)
Buy an inexpensive salad spinner or find a used one. Add some paper plates and a few bottles of tempera paint. After your child opens the gift, show him or her how to make a spin painting by putting a paper plate on the bottom of the spinner, adding a few tablespoons of different colors of paint, and giving it all a good spin.

2. Mood Painting Use a variety of abstract techniques and colors to create the "moods" of the characters. Examples - the miller's daughter as she tries to use the spinning wheel; her mood when she tricks Rumpelstiltskin; His mood when he first hears the girl's cries; his mood when he realized he was tricked. Talk about those moods ahead of time. What colors best represent those moods? What shapes?

3. Rumpelstiltskin's Tracks

Make a clay representation of what the ground looked like after he stomped it angrily after the Miller's Daughter guessed his name.

26.B.1d Visual Arts: Demonstrate knowledge and skills to create visual works of art using manipulation, eye-hand coordination, building and imagination.

4. Fire Representation

Draw fire on a flat paper. Pinprick holes. Make the paper into a cylinder. Place a light under it and spin it to spray out the light. (use a ballpoint pen to make pinpricks). *I'm not sure how you are able to actually spin the fire, so it may take some trial and error to get it to work.

Make a mosaic fire using pieces of red, yellow and orange tissue paper

Make a 3D collage by collecting twigs, small rocks, moss, broken-up dried leaves, etc from the woods. Arrange pieces to look like the floor of the woods with a fire circle in the middle.

Found this on the Net

5. Castles: http://www.dickblick.com/lessonplans/castles/

6. Reference for a book on Kindergarten art ideas from Rumpelstiltskin:

http://www.edconpublishing.com/proddetail.php?prod=IIL02&cat=11&PHPSESSID=76375d8b41ba2e1fa0e357b24ac3bc6c

Link to a page for book from the Learning With Literature Series that center on ideas using "color."

Study Guide for Rumpelstiltskin


Marble painting is a popular method of painting for preschool aged children and up. The activity isn't too messy and the results are beautiful and always different. AGE LEVEL: 2 years and up MATERIALS NEEDED: 1. Cardboard box, with sides approximately 4 inches high. A copy paper box lid is perfect, but any other box would work great too. 2. Paint, 3-4 colors is preferred 3. Spoon 4. 1-3 marbles for each color of paint 5. Paper -- just about any kind of paper will work, however, it works best with paper that is thicker than traditional copy paper. SET UP To protect your workspace, cover it with newspaper. Place a smock or old shirt on each child that will be participating in this activity. Place each color of paint on its own plate, and then put 1-3 marbles in each color of paint. Put one spoon into each color of paint. PROCEDURE Place a piece of paper in the bottom of the box. The better your paper fits the better. Have the child scoop the marbles out of each color and place them into the paper lined box. Next, have the child shake the box from side to side and tilt it up and down, creating a motion that has the marbles rolling all over the paper. After the marble have distributed the paint on the paper, you will see a colorful display of lines and designs. Remove the marbles from the paper and place them back on the paint plates so that they are ready for the next child. Remove paper from box and allow to dry completely. Marble painted artworks looks great on your refrigerator or bulletin board, but it can also be used for other purposes such as book covers or wrapping paper. Be creative! *At the workshop the participants said to use gold paint and a round cake pan to imitate the spinning of a spinning wheel.

	Draw fire on a flat paper. Pinprick holes. Make the paper into a cylinder. Place a light under it and spin it to spray out the light. (use a ballpoint pen to make pinpricks). *I'm not sure how you are able to actually spin the fire, so it may take some trial and error to get it to work.
	Make a mosaic fire using pieces of red, yellow and orange tissue paper
	Make a 3D collage by collecting twigs, small rocks, moss, broken-up dried leaves, etc from the woods. Arrange pieces to look like the floor of the woods with a fire circle in the middle.