Line, Color, Shape Review: A Colorful Village Collage!

Hey, friends! I'm coming to you from a snowed and iced in middle Tennessee! I hope you are staying warm and cozy where you are. We lost power for several hours on Sunday but thankfully (due to the hard work of those linemen and county workers) we are back, baby! Just in time to share this new lesson with you: A Line and Shape City Collage Review!

For this lesson, I'm using the latest product I created with my friends over at Prang: The Dry Erase Spinner!  A couple of years ago, I created my own spinners for my students to do a line review. I used cardboard and they worked fine...but what I really wanted was one that was long-lasting and I could change the theme of. So I chatted with my friends at Prang and they made it happen! You can check out how I used the original spinner in this LINE lesson here. 

Now if this lesson looks familiar that's because it's an extention of one that I shared recently! It was a simple drawing lesson but I decided to elevate it. You can check out the orginal lesson here. 

I always find that after the holidays is a fun time to do an Elements of Art review. That's why I incoorporated lines, shapes and color into the lesson. Here's a peak into my book on SHAPES!

And now...for the lesson video:

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Did I mention that this lesson comes with a free download? You can access it here!

If you prefer a typed up version of this lesson plan, Prang always shares 'em! You can find it here. 

AND if you'd like to take a closer look at my book on SHAPES, check it out here!

For my book on LINES, you can check it out here!

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Creating Lines with Modeling Clay

I recently shared that I created line-making stations for all of my students. You can check out a video and blog post on that here. While I was out, I created this video and sheet as a sub plan for all grades. I've since decided to add it to my early finisher centers! Check out the video I created for the kids here:

And here's how I plan to use it as an earlier finisher center. The kids loved working with it while I was away so this should be a fun activity choice for them!

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How to Decorate an Art Room: Line and Color Wall!

If you've been hanging around this here blog lately, then you know I've been sharing quite a few redecorating of the art room posts. For many of these art room flips, I have the Fire Marshall to thank. What previously was in this space were some super fun things hanging from the ceiling. You know, the usual art teacherin' decor: a disco ball and extra large plastic crayon piggy banks. Need I say more? The FM was not a fan because, let's be honest, FMs hate all things happy, colorful, fun and ceiling-dangily. Yeah, yeah, their fun-zapping ways save us from a fiery doom but whatever. They cramp our art teacherin' style.

Or do they? It was after I removed, let's be honest, the clutter, that I started to think of what I could use this space for. I remembered that my buddy Michelle created a large scale visual of lines for her students in her art room. With that in mind, I decided to create my own version in my art room. Allow me to share my (big pain in the behind to create) Line and Color Wall...hugs to Michelle for the inspiration! 

Supplies:

* Picket Fence Posts Y'all know I have issues with going in to the Paint All The Wood Thingies aisle in the local craft joint. I found these guys there and I'm assuming they were supposed to be fence posts? Whatever, to me, they looked liked pencils so I picked up seven. With my teacher discount, of course.

* Duct Tape I didn't want to paint my wall because 1. I didn't want to ask permission to do so and 2. I didn't want to even attempt to paint over that lumpy bumpy brick. Did you know that they make thin duct tape?! It's the best thing ever when you are creating a line and color wall, y'all!

 Now, when coming up with my lines, my biggest problem was space. There's not a ton of space above my white board. So I had to keep that in mind when dreaming up what lines to showcase.

With that in mind, I went with the following: bouncing, zigzag, thick, thin, dotted/dashed, curvy and parallel lines. Not even gonna lie: this was NOT my favorite art room decor project because it took forever...but it is my new favorite thing to look at in my art room!

AND it's totally not coming down. Sorry not sorry, sweet FM! Okay, let's be honest, if they ask, I'll take it down. But words will be spoken. Most unpleasant ones, at that. 

 Okay, so. I've covered Lines, Color Order, a Color Wheel in my art room with my new decor...but now I'm perplexed: I want to showcase shape an form. How so? Love to hear your ideas! 

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