My daughter's MS art teacher gives them a choice from a few prompts, and then they can create it however they want. It can be a pencil drawing on a piece of looseleaf paper, or as elaborate as you want. One choice a couple of weeks ago was to replicate a famous artwork with objects you found around your house. DD is allowed to use any of my supplies, but she used a towel for the background, twist ties for flower stems, a Diet Coke can for a vase, etc. So the teacher is being careful to make sure that supplies are not the issue.
If my students have a paper and pencil (or pen or marker, etc.) they can do my projects. I'm not crazy about lined notebook paper but sometimes there is no choice.
1. We did selfies- some kids did just pencil, some marker, some crayon, some colored pencils, some paint- whatever they had. Some kids used computer programs. Looked at famous self portraits and the history of "selfies". Did you know the first camera selfie was done in 1839?
2. Color wheels with objects they found around the house- these were awesome. Some of the kids were really creative. Looked at the history and science of color in art.
3. Bedroom drawings- same supplies as selfies - looked at Van Gogh's bedroom.
4. Recreate famous paintings with clothing or by dressing up like the famous painting. These were awesome. Kids had to tell me about the painting they chose.
5. Andy Goldsworthy environmental sculptures - some kids did them with rocks, flowers, etc. they found outside, some did it with objects they had around the house, like toy cars.
6. Robots with recycling. Looked at the artist Greg Olijnyk. These were amazing. I loved it.
7. Still lifes. Gather 4 or 5 objects you have around the house and draw them. Same supplies as selfies. Looked at well known still life paintings.
8. How are you feeling drawings. Looked at art about emotion. Same supplies as selfies.
9. Now we are designing theme parks and looking at how Disney designs their parks.
Thank you for asking. I love what we have been doing. It is sometimes challenging to come up with stuff but we are actually doing a lot more 3-D work at home than they did at school because I don't have the storage space at school.
