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Friday, May 13, 2016

School Age Storytime–Imagine the Possibilities!

A storytime for K-4th grade celebrating creativity and imagination, with suggestions for art projects, art-inspired story-starters and a brief introduction (with further suggestions) for the artists Rene Magritte and Rob Gonsalves.

Book: That’s Good, That’s Bad by Marjorie Cuyler (used with some classes as kids were arriving – kids loved to chorus “No that’s bad/good!”)

Book: The Pink Refrigerator by Tim Egan (Dodsworth leads a very dull life until a rusty old refrigerator filled with different supplies each day opens his eyes to amazing new possibilities.)

Dinner at Magritte's

Book: Magritte’s Marvelous Hat by D. B. Johnson or  Dinner at Magritte’s by Michael Garland (great lead in to the art of Rene Magritte – can share pages from Now You See It—Now You Don’t: Rene Magritte (J759.9493 WEN and/or Google: “Rene Magritte paintings.)

Book: Where’s Walrus by Stephen Savage

Book: Changes by Anthony Browne (a boy's imagination runs wild as he waits for his parents to return)

Read selections from: Imagine a Place by Rob Gonsalves and Sarah Thomson (also showed Imagine a Day and Imagine a Night).  Sarah Thomson used Gonsalves’ paintings as “story starters” for her short pieces – your kids can too: www.boredpanda.com/magic-realism-paintings-rob-gonsalves (Google image search “Rob Gonsalves” if you want more.)  David Wiesner’s book Free Fall  is a wordless book that uses similar magic realism.

Nonsense/surreal poem: One fine day in the middle of the night / Two dead boys got up to fight / Back to back they faced each other / Drew their swords and shot each other / A deaf policeman heard the noise / Came up and shot those two dead boys / If you don’t believe this tale is true / Ask the blind man, he saw it too!


Book: Are We There Yet? by Dan Santat (Caldecott winning author illustrator of The Adventures of Beekle: An Unimaginary Friend) (A boy in the backseat of a car takes the road trip of a lifetime in this book that encourages kids to savor the moment!)  Kids can see similar page turn-around magic in D.B. Johnson’s Palazzo Inverso inspired by the amazing lithographs of M.C. Escher. (Lots of images if you Google: “Escher”)

Book: If… by Sarah Perry (imagine if cats could fly, leaves were fish, mice were hair, caterpillars were toothpaste, toes were teeth, or frogs ate rainbows…)   Similar titles: Guessing Game Book: What is This? by Antje Damm (have kids imagine possibilities) Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert  (leaf pictures), Here a Face, There a Face by Arlene Alda (quick book showing photographs of  "found faces" in nature and in man-made objects), Rain Fish by Lois Elhert (wonderful “fish” created from found objects.)

Book: Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg (mistakes can be inspiration!)

Close: What a Wonderful World singable book by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele, illustrated by Ashley Bryan

Encouraged kids to explore possibilities of their own …this afternoon, weekend, month, year and throughout their lives!
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6.16 Bedminster – continued theme with “Dream On”:

Appelemando’s Dreams by Patricia Polacco (Because he spends his time dreaming, the villagers are convinced that Appelemando will never amount to much but in time his dreams change the village and all the people in it.) Booktalked: Frederick by Leo Lionni.

I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont (Fun chanting book about an irrepressible and incorrigible artist!)

H.O.R.S.E. A Game of Basketball & Imagination by Christopher Myers (Two kids create an out-of-this-world game…)  Mentioned this year’s summer reading theme – On Your Mark, Get Set, Read! – encouraged them to sign up at Clarence Dillon Library (& come see me at Bridgewater Library)

The Bear Report by Thyra Heder (related to their animal reports this year – a child’s boring school report on a polar bear gets significantly more interesting when the subject shows up in her living room!)

Elephants Can Paint Too! by Katya Arnold (Asked whether previous title was fiction or non-fiction, then asked about this one – showed true book: 599.67 ARN)…fabulous facts and photos of these amazing creatures – who knew they had 150,000 muscles in their trunks (humans have 639 in their whole bodies!) or that baby elephants suck their trunks like human infants suck their thumbs…or that an elephant can swim the distance between Bedminster and Newark airport without resting! – Cool stuff all!)

Puppets/Song – Deep in the Jungle (left over from Rainforest story time last week – promised the kids we’d do this – lyrics here: http://www.hellojoe.com/lyrics-ditj.html)

Perfect Square by Michael Hall (A perfectly happy square with four matching corners & four equal sides discovers the possibilities of change and realizes stasis isn’t as alluring as he first thought! (also nice reinforcement of the days of the week))

Encouraged kids to follow their own dreams this weekend & all summer long!
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Display? Some Things I’ve Lost by Cybele Young (objects morph then change entirely)

 

Harold and the Purple Crayon inspired craft – squiggle pictures. (draw a squiggle then have kids “finish” the picture):

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5.14 Bedm used:Andrew Draws -- David McPhail
Margritte's Marvelous Hat -- D.B. Johnson
The Day the Crayons Quit -- Drew Daywalt
If - Sarah Perry
Little Green -- Keith Baker
Palazzo Inverso -- D.B. Johnson
Froodle -- Antoinette Portis
Call Me Gorgeous -- Giles and Alexandra Milton

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Picture This – Art Exploration for Kids “Now You See It, Now You Don’t”


“What is real and what is not?  We’ll share Michael Garland’s book   Dinner at Magritte’s and then explore the art of Surrealism.”  Kindergarten through 5th grade.  

Display for browsing as kids arrive: books on Surrealism, Magritte, Dali, plus general art picture books & Greg Tang’s Math-terpieces: the Art of Problem-Solving (Picture Book Tang),  Imagine a Day, Imagine a Night, Imagine a Place (all Picture Book Gonsalves)

Read:  Changes (Picture Book Browne)

Share nonsense/surreal  poem:
One fine day in the middle of the night
Two dead boys got up to fight
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other
A deaf policeman heard the noise
Came up and shot those two dead boys
If you don’t believe this tale is true
Ask the blind man, he saw it too!

Read:  Magritte’s Marvelous Hat (Picture Book Johnson)

Read:  Dinner at Magritte’s (Picture Book Garland)

Share pages from Now You See It—Now You Don’t: Rene Magritte (J759.9493 WEN) & The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Salvadore Dali (J759.6 WEN), The Art Book for Children v. 2 p.40 “Camembert clocks (J709 REN)

Craft:  Show pages 8-10, 14-17 from Imagine That!  Activities and Adventures in Surrealism (J709.04 RAI) to inspire kids to create Surrealist collages using  pictures cut from magazines and markers to create pictures in the style of Magritte & Dali  (dream-scapes, things out of scale, day/night transposition, faces made of other things, melting clocks, etc.…)  Supplies: 11 x 17 paper, markers, scissors, glue, magazines & wallpaper scraps.

Music playing while making  pictures:  “Hey Picasso” album by Jessica Harper.
Resource Book: Salvador Dali & the Surrealists (J759.6 ROS)
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Picture This – Art Exploration for Kids “Now You See It, Now You Don’t”

Kindergarten through 5th grade.
“What is real and what is not? We’ll share Michael Garland’s book Dinner at Magritte’s and then explore the art of Surrealism.”

As children enter, have them browse books on Surrealism, Magritte, Dali, plus general art picture books & Greg Tang’s Math-terpieces: the Art of Problem-Solving (Picture Book Tang), Imagine a Day, Imagine a Night, Imagine a Place (all Picture Book Gonsalves)

· Read Changes (Picture Book Browne)

· Share nonsense/surreal poem: One fine day in the middle of the night / Two dead boys got up to fight / Back to back they faced each other / Drew their swords and shot each other / A deaf policeman heard the noise / Came up and shot those two dead boys / If you don’t believe this tale is true / Ask the blind man, he saw it too!

· Read Magritte’s Marvelous Hat (Picture Book Johnson)

· Read Dinner at Magritte’s (Picture Book Garland)

· Share pages from Now You See It—Now You Don’t: Rene Magritte (J759.9493 WEN) & The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Salvadore Dali (J759.6 WEN), The Art Book for Children v. 2 p.40 “Camembert clocks (J709 REN)

· Show pages 8-10, 14-17 from Imagine That! Activities and Adventures in Surrealism (J709.04 RAI) to inspire kids to create Surrealist collages using pictures cut from magazines and markers to create pictures in the style of Magritte & Dali (dream-scapes, things out of scale, day/night transposition, faces made of other things, melting clocks, etc.…) Supplies: 11 x 17 paper, markers, scissors, glue, magazines & wallpaper scraps

· Resource Book: Salvador Dali & the Surrealists (J759.6 ROS)

· Music playing while making pictures “Hey Picasso” album by Jessica Harper









Friday, December 8, 2017

School Age Storytime: Look Again–Art, Artists, and Imagination

K-2nd Grade Storytime utilizing the new Keith Haring picture book biography and encouraging kids to embrace art and creativity in themselves and all around.

Opened by sharing Here a Face, There a Face by Arlene Alda (photographs of “found faces” in buildings and objects – book opens with a tribute to John Lennon’s “Imagine”)

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Asked if anyone had ever played the drawing game – taking turns adding lines to each other’s drawing – a game Keith Haring played with his father.)

Read: Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing by Kay Haring (Keith’s brother)  (Inspiring picture book biography of this generous-hearted artist who created art often in unused or ugly public spaces – suggested teachers might want to get mural paper and have kids do something similar.)

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Read: Changes by Anthony Browne (The objects in a boy’s house morph around him in this intriguing book that pays homage to surrealism…)

Dinner at Magritte's

Dinner at Magritte’s by Michael Garland(great lead in to the art of Rene Magritte – can share pages from Now You See It—Now You Don’t: Rene Magritte (J759.9493 WEN), The Mad, Mad, World of Salvador Dali (759.6 WEN) both by Angela Wenzel, Salvador Dali and the Surrealists – their life & ideas + 21 activities by Michael Ross (J759.6 ROS) and/or Google: “Rene Magritte paintings” and “Salvador Dali paintings”.)

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Mentioned  life-like statues of J. Seward Johnson – many available to view at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton NJ – an incredible place to visit.

Action break inspired by stone parents in above book – “statues” game aka “freeze dance” – sing or play tunes as students dance, then stop the music and “freeze”

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Another incredibly imaginative artist M.C.Escher “Ascending and Descending” and “Relativity” (above) inspired:

Read: Palazzo Inverso by D.B. Johnson (book imagines “master’s” apprentice changing the drawing simply by turning it around – book goes forward then returns backwards (upside down) to the place where it starts!) – also have the kids notice the fish/bird end-papers.

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Return to Keith Haring who famously said “It’s your job to decide [what my pictures mean]. I only do the drawing!’  Show his pictures from: Keith Haring: I Wish I Didn’t Have to Sleep (J 709.2 HAR), read excerpts and have kids supply their own interpretations.

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Finish with:

 

 

Book: If… by Sarah Perry (imagine if cats could fly, leaves were fish, mice were hair, caterpillars were toothpaste, toes were teeth, or frogs ate rainbows…ends with “If this is the end…then dream up some more! – encouraged kids to create their own book of imaginative ideas!) 

Related programs:

http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2014/03/picture-this-keith-haring-characters-at.html
http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/08/picture-this-art-exploration-for-kids.html
http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2016/05/school-age-storytimeimagine.html

Related books:

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Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali & the Artists of Illusion by Al Seckel
Imagine a Place (also Day, Night) by Sarah Thompson, Art by Rob Gonsalves

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Thursday, October 15, 2015

Picture This: Artist Day Program

 

Artist Day Program  Table signs for this program can be found here.

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There will be a variety of activities available for children aged 3 and up including:

  • * "Cave Painting" -- in the style of the first artists 32,000 years ago!
  • * "What can you do with a line?" -- Sqiggle pictures to get those creative juices flowing.
  • * "What can you do with a dot?" -- Pointillism with Qtips in the style of Seurat.
  • * "What can you do with a dab?" -- Watercolor painting in the style of Monet.
  • * "Drawing with Scissors" -- Cut-up collages in the style of Matisse.
  • * "Mixed-up faces" -- Self-portraits in the style of Picasso.
  • * "Picturing the impossible" -- Surreal pictures in the style of Magritte & Dali.

Families can arrive and leave at any time. Parents and/or caregivers are expected to stay with children during their museum visit.

Note:  More detailed plans for single programs on each of these artists can be found in other blog entries hot-linked to the titles below.  Also done as Play With Art.

General Books & Materials:

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CDs:

  • Hey Picasso by Jessica Harper JCD 730 Harp
  • Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky ACD 425 MUSS

Books: (a sampling)

  • Eggs Mark the Spot by Mary Jane Auch
  • Color by Ruth Heller
  • The Art Lesson by Tomie de Paola
  • Micawber by John Lithgow
  • The Shape Game by Anthony Browne
  • Mathterpieces by Greg Tang
  • Tell Me A Picture by Quentin Blake
  • Dreamer from the Village – Michelle Markel
  • I Am Marc Chagall by Bimba Landmann
  • Marc Chagall: Life is a Dream

Videos:

  • Who is the Artist? Chagall, Klee, Magritte
  • Barry’s Scrapbook a Window into Art
  • The Dot

WELCOME  -- COME EXPLORE ARTISTS TODAY

EACH STATION FEATURES A DIFFERENT ARTIST OR STYLE

To get the most out of this program, we recommend that you read (or browse) the book(s) before using the materials to create your own artwork in their styles.

There is no “right way” to do art and we have only 2 rules:

1. Please clean up when you have finished a project.

2. HAVE FUN!

"Cave Painting"

The First Artists 30,000 Years Ago!

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BOOKS TO SHARE:

  • · Quennu and the Cave Bear by Marie Day
  • · First Painter by Kathryn Lasky
  • · Mystery of the Lascaux Cave by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
  • · The Mud Family by Betsy James

MATERIALS TO USE TO MAKE OUR CAVE ART MURAL:

  • · BROWN PAPER ON THE WALL (OUR “CAVE”)
  • · CHALK PASTELS

CAVE ART


Paleolithic art the oldest known (ca. 30,000 years old) examples of which were discovered in 1994 at the Chauvet Grotto in southeastern France. Other famous sites that yielded more recent works are: Cosquer, France (19,000-27,000 years old), Altamira, Spain (14,000-16,000 years old) and Lascaux, France (10,000-15,000 years old). This type of art predominately features paintings of animals.


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"What can you do with a line?"

Squiggle pictures to get those creative juices flowing.

START WITH A SQUIGGLE AND SEE WHAT IT TURNS OUT TO BE!

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BOOKS TO SHARE:

  • · Harold & the Purple Crayon books by Crocket Johnson
  • · Ish by Peter H. Reynolds

MATERIALS TO USE:

  • · Paper with squiggles
  • · Markers

One person (parent or child) draws a squiggle; the other completes the drawing to make a picture!

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"What can you do with a dot?" Pointillism in the style of Seurat.

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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte shows people of all different classes in a park. The tiny juxtaposed dots of multi- colored paint allow the eye of the viewer to blend colors optically, rather than having the colors blended on the canvas or pre-blended as a material pigment. It took Seurat two years to complete this ten foot wide painting, and he spent much time in the park sketching to prepare for the work. It is now exhibited in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

BOOKS TO SHARE:

  • · The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
  • · Monet and the Impressionists for Kids

MATERIALS TO USE:

  • · Paper
  • · Paint
  • · Q-Tips

Create a picture using Q-Tips to paint dots on your paper. Notice how your eyes blend the dots into other colors when you step back from your picture.

"What Can You Do with a Dab?" Watercolor Painting in the Style of Monet

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BOOKS TO SHARE:

  • · Katie Meets the Impressionists by James Mayhew
  • · Monet and the Impressionists for Kids

MATERIALS TO USE:

  • · Paper
  • · Watercolors
  • · Brushes

Try dabbing watercolor paint on paper to make your own impressionist painting.

Impressionism

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Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists, who began exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant.

Characteristics of Impressionist painting include visible brushstrokes, light colors, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, and unusual visual angles.

They used short, "broken" brush strokes of pure and unmixed color, not smoothly blended, as was the custom at the time. For example, instead of physically mixing yellow and blue paint, they placed unmixed yellow paint on the canvas next to unmixed blue paint, so that the colors would mingle in the eye of the viewer to create the "impression" of green. Painting realistic scenes of modern life, they emphasized vivid overall effects rather than details.

"Drawing with Scissors" Cut-up collages a la Matisse.

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BOOKS TO SHARE:

  • · Henri Matisse – Drawing with Scissors

MATERIALS TO USE:

  • · Paper
  • · Scissors
  • · Gluesticks

Create a cut-out collage with bold shapes and colors.


What can you do with a face (or a body?)

Rearrange it in the style of Picasso!

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Things to try – Draw a self-portrait, then cut it up and rearrange the pieces!

 

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"Mixed-up Faces"

Portraits in the Style of Picasso.

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An early 20th-century school of painting and sculpture that was created principally by the painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in which the subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms without realistic detail, stressing abstract form at the expense of other pictorial elements largely by use of intersecting often transparent cubes and cones. The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane. Cubist painters were not bound to copying form, texture, color, and space; instead, they presented a new reality in paintings that depicted radically fragmented objects, whose several sides were seen simultaneously.

BOOKS TO SHARE:

  • · When Pigasso Met Mootisse by Nina Laden
  • · Picasso book

MATERIALS TO USE:

  • · Paper
  • · Markers
  • · Scissors

· Gluesticks

Create a mixed-up picture of a person (or make a regular picture and then cut it up and rearrange the pieces)!

"Picturing the Impossible"

The Surreal Images of Magritte & Dali.

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BOOKS TO SHARE:

  • · Dinner at Magritte’s by Michael Garland
  • · Magritte, the Double Secret
  • · Now You See It, Now You Don’t – Rene Magritte
  • · The Mad, Mad World of Salvador Dali
  • · Salvador Dali by Mike Venezia
  •    Just Being Dali by Amy Guglielmo

MATERIALS TO USE:

  • · Paper
  • · Magazine Pages
  • · Scissors
  • · Gluesticks

Create your own Surrealist images by juxtaposing different pictures from magazines.

"Dreamer from a Village"

The Amazing Visions of Marc Chagall.

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BOOKS TO SHARE:

  • · I am Marc Chagall
  • · Marc Chagall: Life is a Dream
  • · Dreamer from a Village

MATERIALS TO USE:

  • · Paper
  • · Paint
  • · Brushes
  • · Collage Materials
  • · Gluesticks

Create your own dream-inspired images through either painting or pasting multimedia collage materials.

"What Can You Do with a Shape?" The Vibrant Images of Wassily Kandinsky

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BOOKS TO SHARE:

  • · The Life and Work of Wassily Kandinsky

MATERIALS TO USE:

  • · Paper
  • · Markers

Experiment with shape, line, balance, and color to create a Kandinsky-inspired image.

Next time – Michaelangelo Sistine chapel under card table

http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Java/Magritte.html

Info. About grounds for sculpture

Check out more ideas at: http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Picture%20This

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Picture This: Art & Geometry: Celebrating “The Perfect Square”

 
Art & Geometry: Celebrating “The Perfect Square”
Kdg-5th grade program done inside the library and as an afterschool outreach
 
A square always has 4 equal sides and 4 equal angles, but with a bit of imagination, it can become anything!   We shared books on art and creativity, made pictures by cutting up a square and also explored  the square with origami, tangrams, and mathematical puzzles.   Here is a list of some of the items we showed and shared in case you want to check them out from the library.  (All are in the Picture Book Section under their author’s last name unless they have a Dewey Decimal Number listed.)
 
Read: Perfect Square – Hall plus a selection of other  books celebrating art, creativity, and different ways of looking at things:
Bear’s Picture – D.B. Johnson
Elephants Can Paint Too (599.67 ARN) – non-fiction (check out the elephant-created floral paintings – they’re amazing!)
Dot – Peter Reynolds (also his Ish)
Changes– Anthony Browne
I Ain’t a-Gonna Paint No More – Karen Beaumont
  • Math Riddles from Math Appeal and Math for All Seasons -- Greg Tang
 
  • Our activity stations included:
 
    • Create Your Own “Perfect Square” – cut up a square and reassemble (artwork inspired by our featured book Perfect Square by Michael Hall (tissue paper squares, 8x11 paper to mount on, scissors, gluesticks, hole punches)
    • Math puzzles -- pages photocopied from Shape Shuffle 793.73 WOR (toothpicks, buttons), additional math puzzle books of Greg Tang (mentioned above), The Everything  Kids’ Math Puzzles Book (510 CLE), Let’s Investigate Shape Patterns (516.15  SMO), Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature (512.72 CAM)  (toothpicks or craftsticks, buttons or coins), Shape and Pattern (516 CLE), Math Fun with Tricky Lines and Shapes (793.74 WYL)
    • Tangrams printouts from http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/tangram_puzzles.htm
    • Origami (lots of titles in 745.54), kids might also enjoy Fold Me a Poem (811.54 GEO) (origami YODA http://origamiyoda.wordpress.com/folding-your-own-origami-yoda-other-star-wars-papercraft/)
    • Books on Optical Illusions and Changing Pictures – books including Geometric Optical Illusions (152.148 SEC), Imagine a Night – Rob Gonsalves, Imagine a Day – Rob Gonsalves, Imagine a Time – Rob Gonsalves, Duck! Rabbit! – Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Palazzo Inverso – D.B. Johnson, Here a Face, There a Face – Arlene Alda
    • Additional Art & Creativity books: Look! Look! Look! – Nancy Wallace, What’s the Big Idea? Activities & Adventures in Abstract Art (709.04 RAI), How Artists Use Shape (701.8 FLU), I Spy Shapes  in Art – Mickelthwait, The Dot and the Line – Norton Juster, Dinner at Magritte’s – Michael Garland, What is this? – Antje Damm, How are you Peeling – Saxton Freymann
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Picture This – Art Exploration for Kids: Dreams, Fantasies, and Memories: The Amazing Art of Marc Chagall

Picture This – Art Exploration for Kids: Dreams, Fantasies, and Memories:
The Amazing Art of Marc Chagall

Kindergarten through 5th grade.
“Come explore the life and works of this whimsical artist,
then create your own multimedia fantasies.”

· Show pictures of Marc Chagall paintings in various books, notice common elements (e.g. the fiddler on the roof).

· Read aloud: I am Marc Chagall (J759.7 LAN)

· Resources: Dreamer from the Village (J759.7 MAR) Chagall: My Sad & Joyous Village (J759.7 LOU), Who is the artist? [videocassette] : Chagall, Klee, Magritte, books with large prints of his paintings.

· Create multimedia collage paintings in the style of I am Marc Chagall (supplies: 11x17 paper, scissors, glue sticks, glue, fabric scraps, cardboard, markers, ribbon etc.)

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Saturday, March 8, 2014

Picture This: "Play With Art"


“Play with Art” (Ages 3-10)



What can you do with a dot, a line, a shape, a pair of scissors, a dab of paint and your imagination?  Anything you want!  Come “Be Creative @ Your Library” and “Play with Art” as we kick off a summer of creative fun at the library.

This is a program which incorporated many of the materials prepared for other programs in the "Picture This" series.  
(Detailed descriptions of each project can be found in those other program plans.  Different stations based on some of the programs we’ve held -- stations with self-directed instruction sheets – contact me if you want these.)


Read “Bear’s Picture” – Pinkwater and/or “The Dot”  - Reynolds

Stations:
·         "What can you do with a line?" -- Squiggle pictures to get those creative juices flowing. (inspired by the book: Harold & the Purple Crayon)
·         "What can you do with a dot?" -- Pointillism with Q-tips in the style of Seurat.
·         "What can you do with a dab?" -- Watercolor painting in the style of Monet.
·         "What can you do with a pair of Scissors?" -- Cut-up collages in the style of Matisse or mixed-up faces a la Picasso.
·         "What can you do with some magazine pictures? -- Picturing the impossible -- Surreal pictures a la Magritte & Dali.
·         “What can you do with a wall & chalk?” --Cave Painting in the style of the first artists 32,000 years ago.

·         “What can you do with your imagination?” – anything you want!
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