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Community Art Project

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• Ask students to summarize things that they have learned while studying birds. Tell students that they are going to create piece of art will celebrate all of those things while demonstrating the amazingness of the bird species and their own creative abilities. • Explain that the class is going to create a unique piece of art, a piece of community art where each person in the classroom contributes to part of the finished product. Explain that when a group of people put effort into one project something special can be created because it is more than one person could have done alone. • Explain that the class will be making a zentangle. That a zentangle is a simple line drawing of any object, where each section of the drawing is then filled in …show more content…

A land bird, such as a pheasant, water bird, such as a flamingo or a parrot or bird of prey may be good contrasting choices. Let children vote. Use the chosen bird to be the central focus of the poster, make a simple sketch of the bird in its natural environment. Divide sections such as water, plants of ground into multiple sections so children can make zentangle designs in multiple areas of the poster. • Ask kids to think of what kinds of line patterns could go on the poster. Let a few kids come up to the board to show the patterns they are thinking of. Next hand out plain index card swatches where kids can make a few pattern examples that they think would work for the poster. Also, so an online search of simple line pattern to shoe the kids additional ideas. When kids are finished, collect the swatches and put them into a metal ring. • Next draw a line pattern on the board in an 8 by 11 inch space. Then cut a circle in the center of a piece of paper. Place the paper over the design on the board to show how a continuous pattern looks when it is interrupted by a shape. Let the children know that the edges of the pattern should appear to continue on, even though they are confined by the shape of the section they are filling. Make a small view finder, matching the size of the index card swatches and show the students how to use it, over their sketched ideas, to see how a pattern will look

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