9-12yrs. Week 5: Loren

Intro activity: Making sketchbooks, name tags, and portfolios

Materials: sticky name tags, very large sheets of thin cardboard, light colored construction paper (8.5 x 11), drawing paper (8.5 x 11), crayons, markers, colored pencils

Chinese flower paintings (show examples, use of symmetry)--using still life as inspiration, paint a floral design on half your paper, then fold to duplicate--can also try in fourths

Materials: flowers, drawing paper, tempera paints, brushes

Japanese landscape painting (examples, use of calligraphic/expressive brushtroke)--using the traditional tools and style of japanese landscape, render a scene from your own life in Ann Arbor

Materials: drawing paper, black ink/inkstone, calligraphy brushes

Japanese stick puppets—salt dough is used to create character heads on sticks. After drying, these can be painted and embellished with fabric, etc…

Materials: flour, salt, cream of tartar, tongue depressors or dowels, tempera paint, fabric scraps

Indonesian Batik—draw a design and then use batik paste and acrylic paint to bring it to life on fabric

Materials: Alum (spice), flour, plastic squeeze bottles, 1 cotton sheet cut into squares, paper, marker, masking tape, acrylic paint

African beaded jewelry—create handmade beads out of rolled paper, and then string with wooden beads onto yarn

Materials: printed scrapbooking paper, glue, scissors, wooden beads, yarn

African masks—salt dough, cut cardstock? Sculpted from soap?

Materials:

Mexican style mural, politcal art referencing a current event--students will collaboratively design and execute a "mural" made on large sheets of thick watercolor paper attached to one another

Materials: largest watercolor paper available, 1 per student, tempera paint, brushes, pencils, markers

Mexican metal tooling, outdoor hanging sculpture--design and create a multi-component hanging metal sculpture from decorated metal panels

Materials: 36 gauge aluminum tooling metal, wire, beads, colored permanent markers, masking tape