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Fairbanks North Star Borough School District

Artwork by Austin Cain

Revised July 2019

Distributed By:

and the Department of Teaching & Learning

Art Center Location:

Ryan Middle School 1450 Cowles Street Fairbanks, Alaska 99701

Phone: (907) 328-0701 option 1 Art Center Fax: (907) 456-2594

Art Center Website: http://www.k12northstar.org/ArtCenter

To Search for Art Kits in Destiny: http://destiny.k12northstar.org

For Art Kit Checkout Instructions: http://www.k12northstar.org/Page/2530

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District i 2019 – 2020 Art Kit Catalog

Introduction About the Kits ...... iii NEW Kits for 2019 – 2020! ...... iv Elementary Grade – Level Artists...... v Alaska Native Artists ...... vi Art Kit Support Supply List ...... vii

Art Kits Kindergarten ...... 8 First Grade ...... 32 Second Grade ...... 62 Third Grade ...... 90 Fourth Grade ...... 122 Fifth Grade ...... 156 Sixth Grade ...... 190 Special Education - Adaptive...... 222

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About the Kits 1. ART ACTIVITY KITS: are based on the lessons the art specialists taught during their previous years’ rounds. They are designed for specific grade levels.

2. ART APPRECIATION KITS: (denoted by ) are based on lessons about artists, themes, or media. They are designed for a range of grade levels and have a variety of background information and activities or lessons.

3. ART TRUNKS: a list of available art trunks is on the order sheets at the beginning of each grade section. For more information, please contact the Art Center.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District iii Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

NEW Kits for 2019 – 2020!

Kindergarten: Fourth Grade: Children’s Day Koi Streamers Antlers: Observe like O’Keeffe Toy Boxes in Perspective (revised) Kadninsky’s Secret World Whale Migrations (revised) Romare Bearden: Mood Collages

First Grade: Fifth Grade: Antler Art: Seasonal Symmetry African Textiles Designs (revised) Arctic Terns: Chasing the Sun (revised) : An Alaskan Rainforest Delicious Fruit New Ways of Using Color (revised) Sonya’s Shapes (3 lessons)

Second Grade: Sixth Grade: Cut-Shape Pictures (revised) Alien Life in Abstract (revised) Henri Rousseau: Alaskan Dino-Rainforest Musical and Visual Rhythms Shape Stations (revised) Ribbon Illusions (revised)

Third Grade: Adaptive: Line and Shape Messages (revised) Fields of Flowers Monet’s Underwater World Hungry Hippos and Milton Bradley (revised) Watercolor Monotype (revised) Ladybug Colors My Good Luck Bag (revised)

Don’t forget… Check out the Primary and Intermediate Drawing Trunks with lessons and sets of drawing materials in your school library!

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District iv Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Elementary Grade – Level Artists Below is a list of the elementary grade-level artists. Biographies for each artist are included in the curriculum document and on the back of the school reproductions. Try to become familiar with each artist. Art kits are available to support you.

Grade Artist Known As Life Span Selection Criteria Alaskan Illustrator, Bill Berry 1926-1979 Alaskan, Local Artist Painter K British Sculptor 1898-1986 Families, 3D Art Dutch Impressionist 1853-1890 Self-Portraits Painter Simple Shapes, Colors, 3D Alexander S. Calder American Sculptor 1898-1976 Art 1 Dutch Painter 1872-1940 Simple Shapes, Colors Anna Mary Late-Blooming American 1860-1961 Family, Storytelling Robertson Moses Painter Maria Martinez American Potter 1887-1980 Native American French Impressionist Art History, Patterning, 1868-1954 2 Painter Color, Expressive American Regionalist U.S. Geography, 1891-1942 Painter Landscape French Impressionist Art History, 1840-1926 Painter , Painting Spanish Master of Art History, Learning 3 Pablo Ruiz Picasso 1881-1973 about Self, Collage Author-Artist, Careers, Faith Ringgold African-American Artist 1930-Present Storytelling Japanese Woodblock Pacific Rim, Printmaking, Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849 Printer Graphic Art Plants, Woman Artist, Georgia O’Keeffe American Painter 1887-1986 4 Landscape Alaska Studies, Melvin Olanna Alaska Native Artist 1941-1991 Printmaker, Science, Sculptor World Art History, Michelangelo Italian Renaissance Artist 1475-1564 Renaissance, , Buonarroti Fresco Painting American Impressionist American History, Woman 5 1844-1926 Painter Artist, Children, Family Contemporary American ca. 1925- Andy Warhol American Pop Artist History, Graphic Artist, 1930 to 1987 Careers 3100- Egyptian Art World (Egyptian) History 1100BC 6 Leonardo da Vinci Italian Renaissance Artist 1452-1519 Renaissance Artist

Frank Lloyd Wright American Architect 1867-1959 Architecture, Careers

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Alaska Native Artists

Grade Artist Known As Life Span Selection Criteria Dixie Alexander 1958 – Present Athabascan Regalia & K Hannah Solomon Athabascan Workers 1908 – 2011 Alaska Women Artists Delores Sloan 1938 – Present Sonya Kelliher- Mixed Media Painter & Inupiat, Athabascan, & 1 1969 – Present Combs Sculptor Woman Artist

Alutiq, Sugpiaq Woman 2 Denise Wallace Jeweler & Sculptor 1957 – Present Artist

Contemporary Artist, Tlingit Innovator, Visual 3 James Schoppert 1947 – 1992 Woodcarver, & Painter Artist, Poet, & Essayist

An artist who happens to Contemporary Artist, be Inupiat, educator, & 4 Ron Senungetuk 1933 – Present Sculptor, & Metalsmith founder of the Alaska Native Center at UAF.

Suqpiaq, Educator, Painter, Mixed Media, Founder of the Alaska 5 Alvin Amason 1948 – Present Installation Artist Native Arts Curriculum at UAA

Contemporary Visual Koyukon Athabascan, Kathleen Carlo- 6 Artist, Woodcarver, 1952 – Present Mask Maker, Woman Kendall Metalworker, & Sculptor Artist, & Sculptor

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District vi Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Art Kit Support Supply List

This is a list of the basic art materials your school should stock to support a majority of the FNSBSD Art Kits. All of these supplies are available in the FNSBSD Central Stores Arts & Crafts Catalog. *Please Note: If materials from other sources are used, it must be labeled “child safe.” The product should have an “AP” or “CP” circular label.

DRAWING: BASIC :

Pencils: drawing assorted (H=hard, B=soft) : 9”x12”, 12”x18” Crayons: colors, skin tones (various colors) Pastels: oil sets (Expressionist), chalk sets Sulphite Drawing Paper: 9”x12”, 1”x18”, Markers: broad-tip and thin-tip (red, yellow, 18”x24” (white) blue, green, , , brown, black) Manila Drawing Paper: 9”x12”, 12”x18”, Calligraphy Pens 18”x24” Charcoal: stick, pencils Tortillons (for blending pencil) Fingerpaint Paper

PAINTING MATERIALS: SCULPTURE MATERIALS:

Brush: easel 1/4", 1/2", 1” (flat) Clay (for firing) Brush: watercolor #3, #7, #10 (rounds) Clay: modeling Crayons: watercolor (Payons™) Glazes Paint: finger Super Dough™: (red, blue, yellow) tubs Paint: watercolor (sets) Plaster Strips Paint Refills: watercolor Pipe Cleaners Paint: washable (liquid poster paint) Tongue Depressors Tempera Cakes Aluminum Foil

PRINTMAKING MATERIALS: CRAFT MATERIALS: Burlap Brayers: 4” (soft rubber) Felt: squares Ink: tubes (block ) Needles: jumbo eye Yarn: box, assorted BASICS: Craft Foil or Tooling Foil Scissors Rulers/Yardsticks Specialty/Craft Protractors/Compasses Art Paper: fadeless (duet) Elmer’s Glue-All™ Crepe Paper: (folds) Glue Sticks Paper: packs, assorted colors Astrobright™ Paper (copier) Boards Metallic Paper: packages Tag Board: 24” x 36” (for portfolios) : packs, assorted colors Railroad Board: (for posters) black, white, various colors Cellophane

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District vii Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Art Activities & Appreciation Kits

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 8 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Art Kit Order Assistance Sheet

Blue, bold-face font indicates a new kit.

A Color Book for Me! Marble-Us-Me, Marble-Us-You Anemones Miro's Imagination Lines Animal Character Puppets Moore, Henry: Figure Artists Do Many Things “Moore Please” Art from the Berry Patch Muskox in the Arctic Athabascan Mittens My Art Place Athabascan Regalia My Crayon Box Berry, Bill: Fairy Tale Friends My Museum Birds & Bill Berry Night Lights Birches Branching Out Pattern Parade Building Blocks Piggy Backed Shapes (unit) Busy Bee Helpers Planet Cats in Art Pom-Pom Painting Cave Art Postcards from Van Gogh Cheery “O’s” Robots with Henry Moore Children’s Day Koi Streamers Shape-Kabobs Circles Everywhere Shape-O-Saurus Collars of the Masai People Sled Dog Portraits Color Collages Snowmen at Night Color Critters (Color-Muh-Jigs) Sponge Shape Prints Counting Sheep Storyteller’s Dream: Susie Qimmiqsak Bevins- to the Music Ericsen Dancing Dragon Scrolls Sunflowers Drawing with Lines Texture Treats Elmer the Elephant Toy Boxes in Perspective (revised) Finger Paint Prints Trees & Me First Impressions: Portraits Van Gogh Gallery Game Flags of the World Van Gogh Self-Portraits Gogh to Bed! Van Gogh’s Swirly Feathers Handy Way to Measure Van Gogh Swirling Lines & Dabs Ingredients of Art Weaving Creative Creatures Landscapes by David Mollett Whale Migration (revised) Light, Lighter, Lightest Dreams Magic Hats Around the School

— Art Appreciation Kits — — Art Trunks & Birds —

Painting Your Feelings: Franz Kline (K-3) Alaska Native Art: Andy Goldsworthy: Art from the Earth (4-6) Birds: Calligraphy (4-6) (K-6) - Athabascan (K-3) Cartooning in Stages (4-6) Plovers: A Nature Sketchbook (3-5) - Aleut (4) Please contact the Art Center for availability Discovering Color with Sam Francis (K-3) Puppets & Jim Henson (3-6) - Yup’ik Eskimo (5-6) Escher (4-6) Van Gogh (2-6) - General Studies (K-6) Flowers & Radial Design (3-6) Watercolor Workshop: Wet-On-Wet (4-6) Modigliani (2-6) Mt. McKinley Landscapes (2-6) Nebulas: Birth of a Star (K-3)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 9 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Kindergarten

A COLOR BOOK FOR ME! Materials: Product: A decorated “lapbook” that can hold a • folders, letter size sketchbook • pencil The book, A Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric Carle, will inspire students to inspire their own “chameleon creativity.” Students learn how to rub, trace and draw chameleons to decorate the cover of their lap-book. Students may add to the lap-book as a unit progresses. ANEMONES Materials: Product: A radial design painting of sea anemone  12" x 18" construction paper, colored Students will travel with Mr. L-19, art teacher robot, on the “Artship Centerprize” as he takes them on an exploration of  liquid tempera paint underwater life on planet Earth. They will focus on the radial designs of sea anemones and learn brush techniques in painting. Love those anemones! ANIMAL CHARACTER PUPPETS Materials: Product: Combined images of animals to create stick  tongue depressors puppets and act out stories on their own  crayons  glue Students will examine how often animals are visible in  scissors their world as in children’s books, television shows,  copies (template included) greeting cards, lunchboxes, etc. They will see that animals can be depicted in many ways. ART FROM THE BERRY PATCH Materials: Product: Pen/ink drawing/watercolor painting of a berry patch  watercolor sets  brushes, medium Students learn about artists and illustrators who have been inspired by berries! Edward Hofseth, Barbara Lavallee, Alice  watercolor paper Terstag, and Joanne Swanson are some from Alaska. Students  Sharpie™ Markers, Black will examine berry illustrations from Blueberries for Sal by  construction paper, for mounting Robert McCloskey and Berry Magic by Teri Sloat/Betty  toilet paper, thin-ply Huffmon. They will create a pen/ink drawing of berries and  water containers leaves with overlapping circles. Watercolor is then explored with warm and cool colors and texture. ARTIST DO MANY THINGS Materials: Product: A painting of a fruit or vegetable and a paper  pencil, brushes, & water cups sculpture  tempera cakes, assorted colors  oil pastels Students will learn about many types of artists, from  12” x 18” construction paper, black painters and sculptors, to printmakers, sketch artists and  12” x 18” construction paper, white more. (cut to 12” x 12”)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 10 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

ATHABASCAN MITTENS Materials: Product: A paper mitten with drawn beadwork designs  construction paper, assorted colors (also a class mural of mittens)  class set of markers to share (about Students will study the Athabascan Indians with special 12 of each color) emphasis on their ability to create clothes to survive the  scissors harsh winters. Then they will make a paper mitten with a beadwork design on it. They will add this mitten to classmates’ mittens to make a mural of dancing mittens! ATHABASCAN REGALIA Materials: Product: Students study Athabascan regalia and bead Lesson 1 (Dentalia Headbands) workers, creating dentalia headbands, patterned necklaces,  3” x 22” yellow railroad board and baby belts.  stapler Students will study Athabascan regalia and Athabascan  staples women who are renowned for their elaborate beadwork.  markers  glue sticks Lesson 1: Students will learn about Dixie Alexander, a Gwich’in Athabascan who takes pride in being an artist Lesson 2 (Patterned Necklaces) and teacher. They will also learn about dentalium shells,  9” x 12” construction paper: blue which have been used for ornamentation for centuries. and purple Students will use markers to color their flat (2D) “bead  white tempera cakes work” pattern, then place it on their headband (3D) to don  water containers as an appreciation for Athabascan regalia.  Blick® watercolor markers, various colors Lesson 2: Students will learn about Hannah Solomon, a Gwich’in Athabascan who was a bead work artist for most Lesson 3 (Baby Belts) of her 102 years. Students will learn how dentalium shells  yarn for tassels were used for creating Athabascan regalia to wear for  pony for details important events and ceremonies. They will draw “beads”  liquid glue & glue sticks and paint “dentalium shell” patterns on construction paper  thin-tipped markers, various colors to make their own chief-style necklaces.  scissors  single-hole punch Lesson 3: Students will be introduced to  12” x 18” master bead worker Delores Sloan, an construction paper: light blue, dark Athabascan originally from Fort Yukon, known for her blue, or tan solidly-beaded baby belts. Students will learn how to  4.5” x 6” construction paper: blue create “beaded” flowers and place them on a construction or brown paper baby belt.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 11 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

BERRY, BILL: FAIRY TALE FRIENDS Materials: Product: A mural of "fairy tale creatures"  construction paper, assorted colors  5’ banner paper (two colors) Students will examine the work of Fairbanks artist Bill  1" masking tape Berry, specifically his Alaskan Fairy Tale mural in the  oil pastels Noel Wien Library. Each student will create a "fairy tale creature" by gluing together torn paper shapes and decorating them with oil pastels. All students will tape their creatures on a large mural made of banner paper. BIRCHES BRANCHING OUT Materials: Product: A birch tree collage  9” x 14” construction paper, black  7” x 12” construction paper, light Students will learn printmaking and collage techniques as blue a result of observing the unique attributes of birch trees.  7” x 3” construction paper, browns They will learn how artists make lines in different ways and greens such as thick, thin, horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and  construction paper, small torn how these lines create beautiful birch trees! pieces: yellow, orange and green  1-1/2” x 11” tag board, white  glue sticks or bottle glue  washable tempera paint, black  1” x 3” scrap  paint cups  old newspapers BIRDS & BILL BERRY Materials: Product: An oil pastel of a close-up picture of a bird in a  oil pastels tree  12” x 18” construction paper, light blue or gray Students will learn about Bill Berry, a Fairbanks nature  9” x 12” construction paper, artist, and look at his studies of birds. After looking at the assorted colors (including brown) shapes that make up a bird, they will make a close-up  glue stick view of a tree and add their own colorful bird.  scissors  pencil

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 12 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

BUILDING BLOCKS Materials: Product: A collage using geometric primary colored  construction paper: red, yellow, paper shapes with drawn patterns blue and green  markers, black Students will become architects as they design block  glue buildings using colorful wooden blocks. After constructing their buildings, students will engage in using colored construction paper blocks to create paper buildings and accent them with markers using color and pattern. Students will learn vocabulary associated with building blocks such as stacking, bridging, and enclosures. BUSY BEE HELPERS Materials: Product: A painting of bumblebees in a field of flowers  9" x 12" construction paper, yellow Busy bees are helpful pollinators because they make our  7-1/2" x 10-1/2" construction food grow. Students will use creative painting techniques paper: blue, violet, and orange to make their busy bee artwork. They will use plastic  paint brushes, #3 forks to paint grass and sponge  liquid paint: yellow, green, black paint bee shapes and flowers while and white using crayons to create a curved  paper plates 'bee line.' Using a variety of  wet wipes (one per student) modalities, students will learn to identify the lower case letter 'b.'

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 13 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

CATS IN ART Materials: Product: A mounted oil pastel picture of a cat  10" x 10" construction paper, black (for drawing) Students will examine cats in paintings and sculptures  12" x 12" construction paper, your and produce an oil pastel picture of a cat from a choice-brown or red works well photograph. (for mounting)  glue  oil pastels CAVE ART Materials: Product: A drawing of an animal on a rock wall with  12" x 18" construction paper, gray textured background  Dura-Blocks™, earth-tones (included) After exploring "a cave" in their classroom, students will  charcoal sticks (included) create their own cave wall art using Dura-Blocks™ in earth-tone colors and charcoal.

CHEERY “O’s” Materials: Product: A 3-D construction paper ornament  construction paper  glue Students will learn about National Cheer-Up Day and  scissors how giving a piece of art can cheer someone up. They  paperclips create their Cheery “O’s” from three layers of  yarn or ribbon (for hanging) construction paper, cutting shapes into and bending the layers to make a two-sided three-dimensional piece of art. These are displayed along a colorful ribbon, just waiting for the opportunity to be given to someone to cheer them up! CHILDREN’S DAY KOI STREAMERS Materials: Product: Windsock with printed rubber fish and streamers.  black marker (shared) or pencil Students will create their own koinobori, a Japanese koi  8.5” x 14” copy paper (legal size) windsock, to celebrate Children’s Day,  15” streamers or tissue/crepe paper May 5th, which is a special holiday in cut in 2” strips, assorted colors (3 Japan. The koi fish’s anatomy is studied, per student) and a replica rubber fish is used for a  1” x 1” construction paper, assorted gyotaku print, including bubble wrap for  3” x 11” construction paper: blue, scale texture. green, green, purple, or orange  Tempera Cake: red, orange, yellow, and black  ½” brushes Recommended:  5 small cups and damp sponges

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 14 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

CIRCLES EVERYWHERE Materials: Product: A large design of circle prints and crayon circles  liquid tempera paint  18” x 24” paper or 36” x 24” paper Students will study circular designs found everywhere, folded over, white and then stamp or print many circles using different sized  crayons circles. This may be used as the front of a portfolio where the students can store their work. COLLARS OF THE MASAI PEOPLE Materials: Product: A Masai-patterned collar and  markers  paper plates (cheap ones work Students will learn about the Masai people of Africa best) (Kenya and Tanzania), and how they adorn themselves with colorful patterned collars made of beads. Creating patterns with markers, they will decorate a collar and necklace of their own out of a paper plate. COLOR COLLAGES Materials: Product: A mixed collage  found materials, assortment  scissors Students will examine the color wheel and pick one color  glue to explore, using a variety of materials using that color  12” x 18” construction paper, only. assorted colors COLOR CRITTERS (COLOR-MUH-JIGS) Materials: Product: A colorful “critter” designed from a prepared  12" x 18" construction paper, paper, made with oil pastels, while exploring color black mixing  9" x 12" construction paper, assorted colors Students will listen to the story of White Rabbit’s Color  scissors Book and learn how White Rabbit mixed all the primary  glue colors to make brown. Using oil pastels, they will  oil pastels prepare a paper by mixing the primaries all over it, exploring color combinations. They will then use that paper and more oil pastels to create a “color-muh-jig” (former name), an out-of-this-world looking creature on large black paper. COUNTING SHEEP Materials: Product: A mixed media sheep with printed spots for  glue stick counting  scissors  liquid tempera paint, assorted colors Students will learn how animals hibernate and how  12” x 18” construction paper, gray people sleep more during the winter season. They will or light blue then talk about the idea of counting sheep to fall asleep.  9” x 12” construction paper, white After looking at a sketch of a sheep by American artist and assorted colors , each student will make his or her own  markers or crayons, black sheep with printed spots for counting.  pencil

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 15 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

DANCE TO THE MUSIC Materials: Product: A colorful mixed media of a dancing person  oil pastels  9” x 12” construction paper, Students will listen to festive active music. They will assorted colors “paint” to a beat and move with the music, stopping  9” x 12” construction paper, black occasionally to strike a pose. They will make figures in (one sheet per student) these poses similar to the style of the artist Miriam  glue stick Shapiro, using oil pastels and construction paper.  scissors  pencil DANCING DRAGON SCROLLS Materials: Product: Dragon with whiskers, horns, big eyes, wings,  6” x 18” white construction paper and a string to make it dance. (1 per student)  Cakes or liquid Tempera, 2 colors Students learn about the customs and activities of the  Colorful paper for the borders Chinese New Year. They make their own Dancing  Hole punch Dragon with paint and markers. They create patterns  Yarn down the dragon’s body and add whiskers, horns, and big  Glue sticks round eyes. Fanciful drawn wings and a string make it  Pencil dance! DISCOVERING COLOR WITH SAM FRANCIS  Materials: Product: A large, colorful painting in the style of Sam  large drawing paper, white Francis created with markers, brushes, and water  water cups  brushes Students are introduced to the large, non-representational  marker sets, primary and paintings of Sam Francis. They will discuss primary and secondary colors: red, orange, secondary colors and make a marker drawing. Then, yellow, green, blue, and violet using water and a brush, students will blend the marker colors on their papers. DRAWING WITH LINES Materials: Product: A design of many types of lines and an animal  crayons line drawing

Students will find “lines” in the classroom and in artist reproductions. They will practice making many types of lines. Using stuffed animals as models, they will make line drawings in the style of Alexander Calder.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 16 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

ELMER THE ELEPHANT Materials: Product: An elephant assembled from paper shapes and  watercolor paints painted  construction paper, white  glue Students will listen to a story about an elephant, Elmer  scissors by David McKee, and then create colorful elephant characters of their own using pre-cut paper and watercolors.

FINGER PAINT PRINTS Materials: Product: A mixed media design of a drawing through  12" x 18" construction paper: red, finger paint with found objects printed over the top yellow and blue  finger paint: red, yellow and blue Students will learn how to mix media by first drawing in  liquid tempera: red, yellow and a layer of finger paint and then printing found objects on blue top of the finger paint design. FIRST IMPRESSIONS: PORTRAITS Materials: Product: A portrait of someone else in an impressionist-  construction paper, black and style white  crayons Students will look at a number of American  tempera cakes Impressionism paintings including Margo Standing in  sponge dabbers the Garden by Mary Cassatt. Using a dabbing technique with a sponge, students will create an impressionist style portrait. FLAGS OF THE WORLD Materials: Product: An original flag design  scissors Students will study the designs of flags from all around  glue the world and cut shapes (or use pre-cut shapes) to make  construction paper, assorted colors their own flag design.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 17 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

GOGH TO BED! Materials: Product: A black line copy of Van Gogh’s The Bedroom  markers of various colors colorfully textured with varied lines.  9” x 12” black construction paper  glue After learning about painter and  8 1/2” x 11” light blue and light listening to the book Goodnight by Margaret Wise yellow photocopy paper Brown, students will observe Van Gogh’s The Bedroom. They will analyze and describe the variety of lines in his painting. As artists, they will use colorful markers and say good night to all their lines as they draw them on a black line copy of The Bedroom picture. Good night lines…

HANDY WAY TO MEASURE Materials: Product: A collage incorporating students’ handprints  9” x 10” construction paper: and drawings from observation yellow, orange and magenta  6” x 6” construction paper, black Students learn about the concept of actual size through  1-1/2” x 12” construction paper the book Actual Size by Steve Jenkins. Students measure strips, black images from the book using non-standard units of  construction paper scraps, various measurements. Through observation, students find, shapes identify, and draw things that are smaller than their hand.  liquid tempera paint: green, blue Their own handprint becomes the center of the artwork and white as drawn objects are compared to the actual size of their  markers, black, fine point hand.  glue, white

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 18 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

INGREDIENTS OF ART Materials: Product: A design containing four "ingredients" (elements) of  crayons art: line, shape, color, and texture  scissors After participating in exercises that introduce the concepts of  glue line, shape, color, and texture, students will create a design  construction paper, assorted colors that contains all four of these "ingredients" or elements of art.

LANDSCAPES BY DAVID MOLLET Materials: Product: A tempera paint and black crayon-resist  12" x 18" construction paper, landscape black (cut to 12" x 15")  9" x 12" construction paper, white Students will study the work of Fairbanks artist, David (one per student; to mount on the Mollett, carefully examining his landscapes. After black paper) creating a foreground, middle ground, and background with a variety of black crayon lines, they will use tempera cakes to paint a color scheme and learn how crayons "resist" the paint. LIGHT, LIGHTER, LIGHTEST Materials: Product: A design containing shapes in a specific color with  tempera cakes white added for different lightened effects  12” x 18” drawing paper, white and black Students will look at paintings and note different shades of the same color. They will then make a design with light, lighter, and lightest shade of that color.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 19 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

MAGIC HATS AROUND THE SCHOOL Materials: Product: A folded paper hat with shapes and streamers  large construction paper, white Students will learn where all the special and important  paper streamers (optional) places are located in the school. They will go on a  cut-paper, assorted shapes “scavenger hunt” to collect shapes. These shapes are  glue added to their own three-corner folded hat. for the  scissors hat parade! MARBLE-US-ME, MARBLE-US-YOU Materials: Product: A mixed media marbleized world  shaving cream  liquid tempera Students will imagine looking at earth from outer space and see that it looks like a giant marble. This marble is the home of billions of marvelous unique people. The students will paint with a marbling technique and create a mixed media world to “hold” in their art. MIRÓS IMAGINATION LINES Materials: Product: An imagination drawing  8-1/2" x 5-1/2" computer paper, that starts with a line white (three per student)  9" x 6" construction paper, black Students are introduced to (to frame art) artwork by Spanish artist Joan  bold markers: black, yellow, and Miró, and will practice using red their imagination. Students will draw using a continuous  highlighter, blue curved line that travels and crosses over itself to make  thin-tip markers, black many shapes. They will identify and use primary colored  glue sticks markers to fill in these shapes. Finally, students will use their imagination and creativity to turn their drawings into interesting pictures in the style of Joan Miró. MOORE, HENRY: FIGURE SCULPTURES Materials: Product: A small, abstract, figure sculpture with its 2D  6" x 4" construction paper, "plan" standing behind it assorted colors  12" x 4" construction paper, black Students will examine figure sculptures of English  1" x 4" construction paper, black sculptor Henry Moore, and create their own sculptures in  self-hardening clay (Super his style. With the help of a "Henry-Moore-O-Scope," Dough™) students will begin to see the world as he did.  white glue  scissors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 20 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

“MOORE PLEASE” Materials: Product: A painted 3-D paper sculpture  construction paper, black and white  tempera paints Students will learn about the sculptor Henry Moore, who  glue used positive and negative shapes in his figure-based  scissors sculptures. Students will cut holes in paper shapes and then paint around these shapes to create their own positive/negative paper sculpture. MUSKOX IN THE ARCTIC Materials: Product: A 3D muskox sculpture  Playdough™: red, yellow and blue  cardstock or index cards, white Students will learn many facts about muskoxen,  railroad board, white (one sheet) including the fact that they have roamed the Arctic since  construction paper: blue, green, the time of woolly mammoths and that they have soft, brown and black warm coats and valuable underwool called qiviut used to  oil pastels make hats and shawls. Students will mix red, yellow, and blue clay to create brown, then shape their own muskox to add to a classroom herd. MY ART PLACE Materials: Product: A paper collage with paper scraps, yarn, and a  12” x 18” construction paper handprint  4” x 6” construction paper, white  liquid tempera: red, blue and Students will base their project off of the book Growing yellow Up to be an Artist by Lois Ehlert. They will create their  glue own “art place” by cutting out artists’ tools, paper scraps,  scissors yarn, and add their own handprint.  yarn (one small piece per student)  sponge (for handprints) MY CRAYON BOX Materials: Product: A crayon drawing exploring many ways to use  9" x 12" construction paper, white crayons  12" x 18" construction paper (for teacher mounting) Students will listen to a story about the many fun ways to  crayons use crayons. They will then explore these ways in a lesson/drawing directed by the teacher. MY MUSEUM Materials: Product: A 2D torn paper picture of a modern museum  crayon, black  glue stick Students will learn about museums and what they are  9” x 12” construction paper, white used for. They will look at pictures of museums and  3” x 6” construction paper, white modern buildings. Students will then design their own  10” x 18” construction paper, black museum using simple shapes for the building’s elements,  1” x 1” construction paper, black windows, and doors.  2” x 18” construction paper, green  9” x 16” construction paper: light blue, dark blue, pink and gray

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 21 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

NEBULAS: BIRTH OF A STAR Materials: Product: A mixed media picture of a star nebula  tempera paint, red and orange  oil pastels Students will study the phenomenon of the birth of a star  12" x 18" construction paper, from a nebula and create nebula pictures with paint, oil black pastels, and imagination.

NIGHT LIGHTS Materials: Product: Creative drawing on a painted paper surface  liquid tempera paint, white resembling “scratchboard”  6” x 17” construction paper, black  7” x 18” construction paper, blue Students will read the book House in the Night, by  construction paper scraps, yellow Caldecott Medal winner Susan Marie Swanson, and be and black inspired. After learning about the process that the  easel brushes, 1” illustrator used and interacting with the illustrations  glue through puzzles, students replicate her scratchboard  scissors process to create their own imagery by drawing through a painted surface.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 22 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

PAINTING YOUR FEELINGS: FRANZ KLINE  Materials: Product: A large and bold mixed media abstract  liquid tempera, black expression of students’ feelings  18" x 24" paper, manila (large is best) Students will examine different ways to feel and then  oil pastels study the work of American painter Franz Kline, who  pencil often painted abstract pictures of his feelings. They will then create a bold mixed media abstract expression of their own feelings. PAPERMAKING  This appreciation kit contains a blender, screens, frames, other supplies and instructions to assist with papermaking.

PATTERN PARADE (TWO LESSONS) Materials: Product: A wearable patterned sash, a graph, and an  6” x 9” construction paper, abstract collage made from textured geometric shapes primary and secondary colors  9” x 12” construction paper, black Students will learn about the practice patterns, both  auditory and visual. They will develop their own pattern  markers, black on a wearable sash and graph the shapes they used. Later,  glue they will use their graph to re-select the same shapes.  scissors Lastly, they will design a piece of art that uses their shapes, adding patterns and textures. PIGGY BACKED SHAPES Materials: Product: Students focus on five geometric shapes in this Lesson 1 (Pigs on a Square) unit  9” x 9” construction paper, black  8” x 8” construction paper, white Lesson 1: Students will be introduced to  marker, fine-tip, black circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, and  crayons, without paper ovals. They will “meet” the shapes from pages of a book, through a song, and by drawing and Lesson 2 (with Kandinsky) coloring pigs while using stencils.  11-1/2 x 4” construction paper, white Lesson 2: Students will learn  12” x 4-1/2” construction paper, about Russian painter, Wassily black Kandinsky, an artist who  watercolor markers, black (used to enjoyed painting many shapes and colors. This lesson will piggyback Lesson 1 by using five geometric shapes draw thin and thick and thick to complete their drawings. Students will practice lines) stenciling and drawing free-hand before using crayons to  felt markers, fine-point (used for color their artwork. They finish by using black markers tracing the stencils) to make thin and thick lines inspired by Kandinsky’s

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 23 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

 crayons, without paper, assorted paintings. colors Lesson 3: Students create zoo animals for this Lesson 3 (zoo animals) final lesson using geometric shapes. When  7” x 11” construction paper, blue they decide which animal to make, they use  4” x 4” construction paper, brown various shapes of construction paper to form (giraffe body) it. They arrange the shapes like puzzle pieces before gluing all the pieces together. They Continued on the next … draw thin and thick lines using black markers to create  4-1/2” x 6” construction paper: the details. Finally, they bubble-cut around the animal to brown, gray, white give it a small border.  construction paper, oval shapes: gray, white, and brown (elephant, lion, and zebra bodies)  construction paper, circle shapes: gray, black, and brown  construction paper, small rectangle shapes: brown, gray, and white (for legs)  glue sticks  markers, black  pencils  scissors PLANET NECKLACES Materials: Product: A necklace of clay beads (planets) made by  Super Dough™: red, blue and mixing the primary colors together to make the yellow secondary colors  yarn  pipe cleaners or plastic needles Students will study color mixing using clay. They will mix the primary colors together to make the secondary colors in the form of small beads or “planets” and sew them into a necklace to wear. POM-POM PAINTING Materials: Product: Flower painting  liquid tempera paint (magenta, green, white, blue) Students begin their art play with pom-poms, tongs, and  paper plates, small (for mixing tubes! Colored pom-poms are picked up paint) with tongs and sent through tubes for fun  12” x 18” construction paper, fine motor skills practice. Students use green pom-poms for painting a garden of  11” x 17” construction paper, flowers with long, tall strokes. Stamping magenta and dabbing will complete their beautiful flower garden.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 24 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

POSTCARDS FROM VAN GOGH Materials: Product: A crayon and oil pastel drawing inspired by  construction paper: Van Gogh’s landscape paintings. o 6” x 8” black o 7” x 9” variety of colors for Students learn that Vincent Van Gogh wrote many letters the border during his lifetime. Students glean inspiration from Van  Glue Gogh Postcard series to make their own landscape. They study and learn the names of three straight lines that denote feelings and movement when used in artwork. They use construction paper crayons to show their vertical, horizontal, diagonal, and variety of lines. Oil pastel details brighten their fields of flowers making them look near and far.

ROBOTS WITH HENRY MOORE Materials: Product: An interactive construction paper robot mask  12” x 18” construction paper, using assorted collage materials assorted colors  tongue depressors (one per Students will view and learn about the Helmet Sculptures student) by Henry Moore. The history of the robot is shared  Cellophane™, assorted colors through a photo storyboard allowing students to both learn and imagine how we use robots. Their robot heads are created by cutting and gluing construction paper. Cut paper buttons, switches, dials, knobs, and wire complete the robot’s “circuit board.”

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 25 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

SHAPE-KABOBS Materials: Product: Colorful, textured shapes glued on a long handle like  copier paper a shish-kabob  scissors  glue Students will make texture rubbings of shapes, cut them out,  railroad board or poster paper (one and then glue them on a long railroad board handle creating a piece) Shape-Kabob! SHAPE-O-SAURUS Materials: Product: A colorful dinosaur.  12” x 18” paper, black  rectangles, white and assorted Students will use background color to shape the sizes dinosaurs by “cutting with their marker.”  glue  markers, black SLED DOG PORTRAITS Materials: Product: A sled dog portrait in relief using oil pastels and  12” x 12” construction paper, black a paper plate  9” x 9” construction paper, brown  1-1/2” x 9” construction paper, brown Students learn about the sport of dog mushing and the  9” x 12” construction paper, gray Arctic Winter Games. After viewing local photos of the  marker, fine point black sport of dog mushing, students create their own sled dog  glue portrait using familiar shapes and oil pastels.  scissors SNOWMEN AT NIGHT Materials: Product: Painted snowman on a  paper plates paper plate  liquid tempera paint: blue and white  12” x 12” construction paper, black Through play, students explore basic  11” x 11” construction paper, blue physics using air as a propellant.  liquid glue Pom poms swoosh through tunnels  white crayon (optional) and up ramps looking very much like snowmen on a playground. After looking at photos of snowmen, students use the pomp poms as painting tools to make their own snowman. SPONGE SHAPE PRINTS Materials: Product: A design made of many printed shapes (size is  liquid tempera paint, one or optional) assorted colors  construction paper, any size and Students will dip shaped sponges into paint and print color them in a design on construction or banner paper.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 26 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

STORYTELLERS DREAM: SUSIE QIMMIQSAK BEVINS-ERICSEN Materials: Product: Interactive paper sculpture of two figures  2” x 2” construction paper, light (storytellers) brown  3” x 3” construction paper, assorted Students learn about the Alaska Native artist Susie colors Qimmiqsak Bevins-Ericksen, and her journey from the  12” x 18” construction paper, gray top of the world (Beechy Point) to becoming a well- (two per student) known sculptor with many artworks in Fairbanks.  9” x 12” construction paper, Students learn how to construct a paper sculpture inspired assorted colors by one of her wooden sculptures. Tracing, cutting, gluing,  glue sticks and patterning are used in the making of the sculpture.  scissors SUNFLOWERS Materials: Product: A mixed media picture of sunflowers  tempera cakes  brushes Students will study van Gogh and his love for painting  water cups sunflowers. They will examine photos of sunflowers and  12" x 18" drawing paper, white make mixed media-resist paintings using oil pastels and  oil pastels tempera paint.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 27 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

TEXTURE TREATS Materials: Product: A mounted design composed of a variety of  Dura-Blocks™ or crayon chunks colors and textures  8-1/2“ x 14” copier paper  glue Students will examine texture in their environment, and  12” x 18” construction paper, colored then create colorful textural designs using special texture (for mounting) placements included in this kit. TOY BOXES IN PERSPECTIVE Materials: Product: A folded paper toy box containing die-cut toys.  2” x 2” construction paper, assorted colors Students will be inspired by Wayne Thiebauld’s colorful  9” x 12” construction paper, paintings of toys, and discover perspective assorted colors by putting away die-cut toys in their very  Construction paper, assorted die- own paper toy box, overlapping them to cut shapes show near and far relationships.  Glue stick

TREES & ME Materials: Product: A mixed media of “Tree and Me” artwork  oil pastels  watercolors Students will be introduced to the work of kindergarten  9” x 12” construction paper: light scientists, (a naturalist) and Susan LeFlesche Picotte yellow, blue and gray (first American Indian woman physician). After looking  glue at the book Are Trees Alive?, students will create a mixed  scissors media “Tree and Me” artwork.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 28 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

VAN GOGH GALLERY GAME Materials: Product: A picture of flowers or landscape in the style of  Payons™ Vincent van Gogh, drawn/painted with Payons™  9" x 12" construction paper, white  brushes, small (as for watercolors) Students will review the work of grade-level artist  water cups Vincent van Gogh in discussion, and by playing card sorting games with the set of Vincent cards provided in the kit. They learn how to use Payons™, a watercolor crayon, by trying to make a picture of flowers or land in the style of Vincent van Gogh. Classes may also opt to just explore Payon™ possibilities in open-ended drawing/painting. VAN GOGH SELF-PORTRAITS Materials: Product: Self-portrait  crayons  Tempera paint cakes, primary & Students study the self-portraits of the Dutch painter secondary colors Vincent Van Gogh. They look at his impressionist style  Brushes of painting and then create their own self-portrait in  Water bowls tempera paints.  12” x 18” construction paper, white & black  Glue VAN GOGH’S SWIRLY FEATHERS Materials: Product: A swirly feather-shaped painting similar to Van  washable Crayola Paint: magenta, Gogh’s The Starry Night. blue, yellow A monoprint from the feather painting.  cotton swabs A collaborative wing span with each students’ feather paintings.  sporks  12” x 18” construction paper: light After carefully observing and exploring Vincent Van Gogh’s blue, magenta painting titled The Starry Night, and learning about him as an  5 1/2” x 16” finger paint paper- cut artist, students will begin by mixing paint into secondary into feathers using template colors. Using a spork, they will paint and play with swirly  oil pastels textured lines before creating their own stars on feather shaped finger paint paper. Finally, they will make a monoprint using this feather. The feather-shaped painting will be used in a collaborative display as wings.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 29 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

VAN GOGH: SWIRLING LINES AND DABS Materials: Product: A painting using swirls and dabs of color in the  watercolors style of Vincent van Gogh  brushes  construction paper, white and Students will examine Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night colored and Landscape and create a painting using his swirling  glue and flowing style.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 30 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Kindergarten

WEAVING CREATIVE CREATURES Materials: Product: Paper weaving that turns into a creative collage  1-3/4" X 12" construction paper: creature light green, salmon and magenta  9" x 12" construction paper: Students will learn that Alaska Natives used a variety of orange, green and purple materials to weave baskets and hats. They will create  6" x 6" their own paper weaving using secondary colors. While construction weaving in an 'A-B' pattern, they sing: "over, under, up, paper, white and down." Markers and scrap paper help them finish  glue sticks their creative creatures.  scissors

WHALE MIGRATIONS Materials: Product: Crayon and watercolor PayonTM rubbings of an  8” x 11” construction paper, white Alaskan whale, dolphin, or porpoise.  9” x 12” construction paper, blue  Optional spray bottle filled with Students will study Alaskan whales, dolphins, and blue water made from diluted porpoises’ anatomy and their water color paint. migration habits. They will then create a rubbing using crayons and PayonsTM, and “paint” with water to blend their PayonsTM for an ocean water effect.

WIRE DREAMS Materials: Product: Expressive and colorful wire sculptures that are  railroad board or cardstock, attached to a card for display assorted sizes Students will create a small, wire sculpture from easy-to-bend colorful wire. The concepts of bend, twist, overlap, curl, and pinch are practiced as they use their imaginations to create their sculptures. Students attach their sculptures to a card and label their creations. A literature connection is included.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 31 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Art Activities & Appreciation Kits

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 32 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Art Kit Order Assistance Sheet

Blue, bold-face font indicates a new kit. African Houses I See a Song African Painted Rhythms Japanese Poetry Bells Alaska Bear Dreams Jetliner Designer Animal Portraits with Todd Sherman Kandinsky Kids Antler Art: Seasonal Symmetry Layers of Land Arctic Terns: Chasing the Sun (revised) Let's Draw Like Vincent Van Gogh Athabascan Beadwork Paintings Line Dancing Beginning Line Drawing Looking at Buttons Blending Colors; Venn Diagrams Mondrian Boogie Woogie Brushing Our Teeth (2 Parts) Mondrian Line Design Building a Mondrian Sculpture Mondrian Trees Calder’s Color Book Mouse Colors Calder’s Fish My Community Square Calder Shape Mobiles My Shadow & Me Can-Do-Ski (2 Parts) On Mother’s Lap Carousel Color & Mood Paint by Numbers Color of Our Own Patterns in Nature: Boolaboo Colors-Go-Round Picasso's Collages Crayon Portraits Pipe Cleaner People Delicious Fruit Poppies from the News Drawing with Shapes (unit) (2 Parts) Portraits of Each Other Eric Carle Mural Rainforest Layers Everyone Draws Differently Secrets: Sonja Kelliher-Combs Fairbanks’ First Family Sky, Mountains & Me Fancy Castles & Northern Lights Solar Stars Our Lines: Self-Portraits (2 Parts) Sonya Kelliher-Combs’ Kuspuks Fish Eyes Sonya’s Shapes (3 lessons) Flower Magic Stacking Still Life Folded Dream House Still Life: Delicious Fruit (2 Parts) Folded Lines Swimmer: A Migrating Salmon Grandma Moses Dioramas Toys & Us: Figure Toys Grandma Moses: Feather Weather Tractor Tracks Grandma Moses: Kid Cards Veggies: Matisse Goes to Mexico (2 Parts) Grandma Moses: LEGO Landscapes Weather Lines Grandma Moses Mural Weave N' Print Grandma Moses: Window Landscape Wind & Wings How to Paint with Watercolor Winter Color Landscapes Ice Sculptors & Sculptures: of the North Wire, Beads & Me with Kelliher-Combs Inukshuk: Guide to the Games You’ve Got a Friend in Me — Art Appreciation Kits — — Art Trunks & Birds — Andy Goldsworthy: Art from the Earth (4-6) Nebulas: Birth of a Star (K-3) Alaska Native Art: Birds: Calligraphy (4-6) Painting Your Feelings: Franz Kline (K-3) - Athabascan (K-3) Cartooning in Stages (4-6) Papermaking (K-6) - Aleut (4) Please contact the Art Discovering Color with Sam Francis (K-3) Plovers: A Nature Sketchbook (3-5) - Yup’ik Eskimo (5-6) Center for availability Escher (4-6) Puppets & Jim Henson (3-6) - General Studies (K-6) Flowers & Radial Design (3-6) Van Gogh (2-6) Modigliani (2-6) Watercolor Workshop: Wet-On-Wet (4-6) Mt. McKinley Landscapes (2-6)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 33 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

First Grade

AFRICAN HOUSES Materials: Product: A 3-D model of an African-style house • 9” x 12" construction paper: earth- decorated in brilliant oil pastel designs tones or neutral gray, sky blue or blue Students will study hand-painted house designs of • oil pastels Southern and Western Africa and make a three- • scissors dimensional model in one of those styles. • glue AFRICAN PAINTED RHYTHMS Materials: Product: An abstract painting consisting of the art  12" x 18" construction paper, elements of warm or cool colors white  3" x 18" construction paper strips: Students will create a lively abstract painting using a red, orange, yellow, blue, purple warm or cool color family. Their artwork develops as and green they draw shapes, lines, textures, and patterns, which  glue create interesting spaces, that are later painted. As they paint, they listen to music from South Africa.

ALASKA BEAR DREAMS Materials: Product: A bear or bear family sleeping in a cave with an  construction paper: black, orange, attached strip showing in cut-paper what they are green and purple dreaming about  paper pieces, small, assorted colors Students will look at the book Alaska’s Three Bears and  metallic paper, small pieces other photos and art reproductions. They will then  crayons: black, brown and white discuss various bear habitats and habits to distinguish  scissors between the brown bear, the black bear, and the polar  glue bear. After drawing a sleeping bear, they will imagine and design the bear’s dream. ALPHABIRCH TREES Materials: Product: A 3D construction paper tiered and textured  scissors landscape with drawn birch trees using the alphabet as  glue branches and painted leaves to represent summer and fall  crayons, black  Crayola® washable paint: blue, Students will make a 3D construction paper textured yellow and red landscape that shows foreground, middle ground, and  8” x 10” construction paper, black background. They learn to draw birch trees and use  12” x 18” construction paper, dark letters of the alphabet to form branches. Students will brown explore mixing primary colors to create secondary colors  4” x 6” construction paper, white as they paint the treetops with fall and summer colors using a technique called “pointillism.” Students add their  3” x 4” construction paper, white colorful trees to their landscape to show both near and far.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 34 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

ANIMAL PORTRAITS WITH TODD SHERMAN Materials: Product: A colorful self-portrait of the student as an  8" x 11" construction paper, white Alaskan animal  9" x 12" construction paper, assorted colors Students will learn about local Fairbanks artist Todd  Payons™ Sherman. They will view his early work (ages 5-20) and  glue his current animal portraits. The students will then draw their own portrait as an Alaskan animal. They will finish their portraits with the watercolor Payons™. ANTLER ART: SEASONAL SYMMETRY Materials: Product: Artwork with moose or caribou and a simple  9” x 12” construction paper: black, landscape with colorful foliage. red, magenta, blue, & green  Washable Tempera paint: red, Students learn about two yellow, orange, green, magenta, amazing antler makers: moose black, white, and brown and caribou. They have a change  Wipes or damp paper towels to see and feel these antlers,  Paper plates which the animals shed every  Liquid glue year. Then, students play with the paint printing process that uses symmetry to transfer their designs. Fall and summer seasons are highlighted, and a moose or caribou is created with colorful foliage.

ARCTIC TERNS: CHASING THE SUN Materials: Product: A torn paper arctic tern and oil pastel earth  9” x 12” construction paper: dark blue, purple/white, gray, & red Students learn the Arctic Tern is the champion migrator  12” x 18” of the world. They travel over 40,000 miles, from the construction Arctic region to the Antarctic region and back every paper, black year. They see more sunlight than any other animal in  Oil pastels the world.  Glue sticks Students create their own torn paper Arctic Tern, and place it chasing the sun around an oil pastel Earth. ATHABASCAN BEADWORK PAINTINGS Materials: Product: A watercolor painting inspired by Athabascan  9" x 12" construction paper: beadwork designs manila, tan, or white  watercolor paints Students are introduced to the Athabascan culture and the  brushes art of bead working. They will learn to use watercolors to  water cups paint beadwork-like designs.  paper towels

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 35 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

BEGINNING LINE DRAWING Materials: Product: A crayon drawing  paper, white  crayons Students will explore and name many different lines. In  broad-tip markers, black this lesson, they are also introduced to the artist Wassily  fine-tip markers, black Kandinsky to see how he used lines and color shapes to make art. Following directions, each student will create a line and shape composition of his/her own. BLENDING COLORS; VENN DIAGRAMS (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A Venn diagram that serves as a color wheel and  12” x 12” construction paper, an abstract collage black Students will learn how to sort objects into groups using a  6” x 12” construction paper, black Venn diagram. They will use an oil pastel blending  3” x 12” construction paper, black technique and primary colors to create secondary colors.  3” x 12” construction paper, white Colors are cut into shapes and placed on their Venn  oil pastels: red, yellow and blue diagram to create a “Color Wheel Venn.” The scraps from  the color swatches are kept for the following lesson where  glue students are challenged by the chance to collage their  scissors scraps in a color line. Students will then check the accuracy of their collage using their “Color Wheel Venn” as a guide. BRUSHING OUR TEETH (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: An abstract glossy painting of teeth using  1/2” x 16” and ½” x 10” vertical and horizontal black strips. construction paper, black  12” x 18” construction paper, pink Students will review dental hygiene and learn that  10” x 16” construction paper, effective brushing is important. They will also learn that white toothbrushes, teeth of combs and tongue depressors are  washable liquid paint (in mustard- great tools to use in art. They will make a glossy type bottles): magenta, blue and painting with wonderful textures and lines using these yellow unconventional items.  light corn syrup (optional)  model of teeth  toothbrush  glue BUILDING A MONDRIAN SCULPTURE Materials: Product: A paper sculpture box  construction paper: red, blue, yellow, white and black Students will explore one of Piet Mondrian’s geometric  glue stick paintings, looking at colors, shapes, and lines. After learning how to make simple cubes, they will construct a paper sculpture using basic colors like Mondrian used.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 36 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

CALDER’S COLOR BOOK Materials: Product: A construction paper book structure with  9” x 12” construction paper, black student designed covers  2” x 5” construction paper, primary colors Students will locate text features while viewing a  scissors magazine about Alexander Calder. They will create a  glue sticks book structure and then design the cover using colorful Calder-like construction paper. Students will take home informational text in the form of a bookmark to create additional books. CALDER’S FISH Materials: Product: A cut-out paper fish collage  construction paper, primary and secondary colors Students will take a fun and playful look at Alexander  thick-tip water-based markers, Calder’s many fish sculptures. Students will emulate his black, wonderful lines and create their own cut-paper fish full  scissors of paper scraps that replicate the found objects and glass  glue he used. Primary and secondary colors are reviewed and cutting skills are honed. CALDER SHAPE MOBILES Materials: Product: A colorful of abstract shapes  construction paper: red, yellow and blue Alexander Calder, an American artist, is famous for  pipe cleaners inventing mobiles. Students will create their own mobiles using shapes and color schemes similar to Calder's style. CAN-DO-SKI (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: Abstract painting of shapes in a warm or cool color  12" x 18" paper, white (cut to 11" x 17") scheme  12" x 18" construction paper, assorted colors (for mounting) Students will study abstract shape work of Kandinsky and  glue compose a similar style painting in warm or cool colors. CAROUSEL COLOR & MOOD Materials: Product: A life-sized carousel animal made of pieces’ that  tempera paint, primary colors are individually painted by children  paint brushes  banner paper or large drawing Students will explore the relationship between color and paper, white mood and together create a monumental and colorful carousel animal.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 37 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

CARVER: FLOWER FUN! Materials: Product: A bright construction paper handing panel with  scissors 3-D relief flowers and leaves  glue  6” x 12” construction paper, Students will learn that George Washington Carver was assorted shades of blue not only known as a scientist and an inventor call the  construction paper, assorted sizes “Peanut Man,” but was also recognized as an artist who and shapes (to create flowers) loved to paint flowers. Students use bright construction  yarn paper to construct 3-D relief flowers and leaves onto a hanging panel. COLOR OF OUR OWN Materials: Product: A printed chameleon and papers  tempera cakes  construction paper, white After reading Leo Leonni’s book, A Color of His Own,  paint brush students will use the chameleon shape and tempera paint  masking tape to explore Mr. Leonni’s illustrated style and create a  permanent markers, black class book. COLORS-GO-ROUND Materials: Product: A torn paper collage  glue  2” or 3” paper circles, colored Students will look at the art of Alma Thomas, who loved  1” paper strips, colored to paint things she could see using color and light. They  12” x 12” construction paper, will create their own art using torn colored paper strips to white and black make rings of color around a circle. They will make lots of choices in creating their art. CRAYON PORTRAITS Materials: Product: A full-figure portrait  paper, white  crayons Students will discuss Goya's portrait of a child, experiment with crayon pressure, and then color a full- figure portrait.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 38 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

DELICIOUS FRUIT Materials: Product: Students create colorful paper fruit inside a  PayonsTM (1 per student) paper bowl.  9” x 12” construction paper: brown, black, & white Students learn that a Still Life is often a painting or  Glue sticks drawing of an arrangement of fruit or flowers. After  Scissors discussing and describing fruit, they practice the basic art  Paint brushes skills of cutting, gluing, and  Water cups coloring. Students create  Paper towels colorful paper fruit and assemble them in a cut paper bowl. Student explore techniques of coloring and painting with PayonsTM.

DISCOVERING COLOR WITH SAM FRANCIS  Materials: Product: A large, colorful painting in the style of Sam  large drawing paper, white Francis created with markers, brushes, and water  water cups  brushes Students are introduced to the large, non-representational  marker sets, primary and paintings of Sam Francis. They will discuss primary and secondary colors: red, orange, secondary colors and make a marker drawing. Then, yellow, green, blue, and violet using water and a brush, students will blend the marker colors on their papers. DRAWING WITH SHAPES (UNIT – 2 PARTS) Materials: Product: Lesson 1 Lesson 1: Shape quilt of organic and geometric shapes  construction paper Lesson 2: Felt board “drawing practice” and a final  scissors drawing of the felt board art based on various creature  glue posters in the style of Charley Harper  pencil Lesson 3: Pop-up done in three layers: a background  circle stencil (included in kit) layer of sky or water, middle layer pop-up support is tree or seaweed, and a pop-up creature drawing made with Lesson 2 shapes  copied worksheet  markers, fine tip Students will learn how artists use simple shapes to create works of art.  crayons

 pencil Lesson 1 begins with a review of color families and  felt boards and shapes (included in some basic geometric shapes, as well as an introduction kit) to “organic” shapes.

Lesson 2 features artist Charley Harper and how he uses simple shapes in his drawings. Students use felt boards to

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 39 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

Lesson 3 create images from various creature phots, one of which  construction paper they copy as a “coloring book” drawing.  markers, chisel-tip, black Lesson 3 adds dimension to the “coloring book” style,  scissors separating the art into three layers to create a pop-up.  glue  shape stencils, construction paper crayons (included in kit)

ERIC CARLE MURAL Materials: Product: A torn paper character to add to a class mural of  paper scraps dancing friends  butcher paper, large  glue Students will be inspired by Eric Carle and Kazuo Iwamura’s book, Where Are You Going? To See My Friend! They will make a classroom mural with torn paper in the shapes of people, animals, and insects. EVERYONE DRAWS DIFFERENTLY Materials: Product: Individual pictures for a weekly calendar page  construction paper, assorted colors  drawing materials, assortment Students will look at the differences between many  blank calendar, blank artists, their subjects, and the materials used. They will then make a picture of their own for a calendar page.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 40 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

FAIRBANKS’ FIRST FAMILY Materials: Product: A circular paper sculpture of student’s family  4” x 12” construction paper: red, yellow and blue Students will view photographs of the sculpture  2” x 12” construction paper: red, Unknown First Family in Golden Heart Plaza. They will yellow and blue learn about the sculptor, Malcolm Alexander, who  2” x 4” construction paper, created the artwork. Students will create their own assorted colors circular first family sculpture from paper and abstract  1/2” x 12” construction paper, forms. assorted colors  2” x 2” construction paper, skin- tones  scissors  glue FANCY CASTLES & NORTHERN LIGHTS Materials: Product: A fancy cut-paper building on a background  12" x 18" paper, dark (for sky with northern lights background)  construction paper, assorted Students will look at pictures of the northern lights and squares and rectangles, assorted discuss the corona and ribbon forms. They will also colors study pictures from around the world of fancy buildings  oil pastels paying particular attention to dome, arch, and tower  scissors shapes. Using these architectural elements, students will  glue create their own fancy cut-paper buildings. FINDING OUR LINES: SELF-PORTRAITS (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A contour line self-portrait mounted on black  11" x 17" drawing paper, manila background or white  12" x 18" construction paper, Students will explore their face parts with hands and black mirrors, will learn to find lines on edges, and will make a  glue self-portrait. The kit includes photos of Alexander  broad-tip marker, black Calder's grade-level artist line drawings of faces and wire line masks. FISH EYES Materials: Product: Fish created from brightly colored papers put  12” x 18” paper, blue into a collaborative counting book  12” x 18” paper, purple  Astrobright® paper, assorted Students will enjoy looking at patterns and predicting colors what comes next with the book Fish Eyes by Lois Ehlert.  scissors Students will make their own colorful and patterned fish.  glue

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 41 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

FLOWER MAGIC Materials: Product: An oil pastel drawing of flowers, edge-torn and  oil pastels mounted on construction paper  12" x 18" construction or drawing paper, white Students will observe flowers and flower art. They will  12" x 18" construction paper, then create their own flowers using a fun tearing and colored smearing technique with paper and oil pastels.  glue  copier paper FOLDED DREAM HOUSE Materials: Product: An origami-folded house boldly decorated with  markers lines, pattern, and color  11" x 11" copier paper, colored  construction paper, assorted colors This lesson is based on the art of Grandma Moses. She often used houses in her subject matter, and students will learn about her life and art. Students will also listen to the humorous book, The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Pinkwater. They will learn how to make a paper-folded house, draw in doors and windows, and finish their dream house with lines, color, patterns, and shapes. There are many possible extension lessons with this project. FOLDED LINES Materials: Product: A folded line relief sculpture  12" x 12" construction paper, white Students will look at the work of two artists, Alexander  glue Calder, a sculptor, and Piet Mondrian, a painter. Both  assorted squares and strips: black, artists used line, shape, and color. Students will make blue, yellow and red artwork by arranging overlapping flat shapes, then folding paper lines to make a relief sculpture.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 42 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

GRANDMA MOSES DIORAMAS Materials: Product: A Mother Goose nursery rhyme diorama with a  12" x 12" construction paper, colored background and figures added white or colored  6" x 12" paper, white Students will discuss grade level artist Grandma Moses  glue and learn that artists communicate through their art. They  scissors are introduced to the word "perspective," and to the idea  marker, black that overlapping is a trick artists use to create an illusion  crayons OR oil pastels of space in a picture that is "flat." GRANDMA MOSES: FEATHER WEATHER Materials: Product: Two feather-shaped landscapes featuring  construction paper 9”x12”in sky student’s favorite type of weather. colors: lt. blue, blue, dk. blue, gray, lavender Students will learn about the artist Grandma  tissue paper in assorted colors Moses and focus in on the skies in her charming  white washable paint landscapes. Considering their own experiences with weather and their likes and dislikes, students  6 paper plates (or other paint trays) will create two sky collages in the shape of  scissors feathers. Their feathers will combine in  glue sticks collaborative wings that celebrate the “sky is the limit” with their imagination. GRANDMA MOSES: KID CARDS Materials: Product: Collaged cards showcasing kids  construction paper 9” x 12” - red, participating in their favorite winter green, blue, yellow, purple, activities. orange, light blue  white copy paper While Grandma Moses’ artwork focuses on vibrant  a variety of tissue paper communities and rural landscapes, she also shows many children playing and frolicking in the snow. Students  glue sticks look carefully at these children and brainstorm about  liquid glue ( 6-12 their activities. Then, they create a card(s) that depict bottles) kids doing similar activities and are set in a simple winter  scissors landscape. Students will practice cutting, drawing, and  glitter gluing with these charming collaged cards. GRANDMA MOSES: LEGO LANDSCAPES Materials: Product: Layered landscape collage  glue  ink pads Students compare and contrast visuals from the birdseye  9” x 12” construction paper, black view perspective of grade-level artist Grandma Moses  6” x 9” construction paper, pastel and a landscape photographer before they use LEGO to colors stamp their own landscape prints. They use construction  crayons paper crayons to draw and enhance their layered landscape artwork.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 43 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

GRANDMA MOSES MURAL Materials: Product: A painted collage mural  watercolor paint  brushes Anna Mary Robertson, "Grandma Moses," was a folk  water cups artist who began painting at the age of 70 her memories  paper towels of long ago. Students will make a group mural of their  scissors activities in the winter or summer using watercolor  9" x 12" paper, white paints. Included is a small group discussion activity using  butcher paper: blue and white-for Grandma Moses’ paintings. winter or blue and green-for summer (for mural) GRANDMA MOSES: WINDOW LANDSCAPE Materials: Product: An out-the-window view landscape with a  construction paper 9” x 12” - collage curtain and painted details white, grey  white and green washable paint Description: Inspired by Grandma Moses’ Hoosick  crayons Valley (From the Window). Students learn the basics of  glue sticks perspective in art. They draw a horizon line, learning that the farther away something is the smaller it appears, and that the closer it is, the larger it appears. Students create a crayon landscape influenced by one of the four seasons and surround it with a window frame and a painted “lace curtain.”

HOW TO PAINT WITH WATERCOLOR Materials: Product: Watercolor paintings, an experimental page, and  watercolor sets at least one student choice painting  paper, white Students will look at watercolor paintings by a variety of artists. They then explore watercolor techniques, properties, materials handling, and cleanup.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 44 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

ICE SCULPTORS & SCULPTURES: DIAMONDS OF THE NORTH (2 PARTS) Materials: Production: A 3-D paper sculpture of slides and people  ice cubes  6” x 9” cardstock, white Students will learn about the career of ice sculpting.  9” x 14” construction paper, black They will look at the process from the collecting of the  9” x 12” construction paper, ice to designing and carving of the sculptures. Students assorted colors will then create their own playground ice sculpture using  3” x 4” construction paper, white water crayons and ice.  scissors  glue INUKSHUK: GUIDE TO THE GAMES Materials: Product: Two-dimensional paper constructed inukshuk,  scissors an Inuit landmark, on layers of land using cutting and  glue tearing techniques.  markers, black  9” x 12” construction paper: blue, Students will learn about the nine teams coming from the sky blue, violet and magenta circumpolar region to participate in the 2014 Arctic  6” x 9” construction paper: blue, Winter Games in Fairbanks. They will become familiar sky blue, violet, magenta and with the Nunavut flag, which has an Inuit landmark white called an inukshuk. Students will use construction paper  4-1/2” x 6” construction paper, and scissors to create their own inukshuk, one near and light brown, dark brown, brown one far. and gray I SEE A SONG Materials: Product: A rhythm color print with cut-shape patterns  paste  liquid washable paint: blue, Students will experience rhythm and movement magenta and yellow connecting visual art to music. Featured music is from a  finger paint paper popular animated film.  construction paper scraps  scissors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 45 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

JAPANESE POETRY BELLS Materials: Product: A hanging paper bell with long paper stamped  jingle bell, small (one per student) Haiku poetry strips and beaded decoration  6” x 6” construction paper  sponges, small The book Basho and the Fox is the basis for learning  washable paint, magenta and blue about traditional Haiku poetry from Japan. Students  pony beads create a bell with stamped patterns in the same rhythm  plastic straws (section cuts) using small sponges and washable paint.  cotton yarn JETLINER DESIGNER Materials: Product: Stenciled jets with bold designs and a crayon  12” x 18” construction paper, watercolor-resist assorted colors  11” x 17” copier paper, white Students will become jetliner designers similar to grade-  watercolor paint, blue level artist Alexander Calder. Using a stencil, students  trays will trace a and use bright-colored markers to draw  paintbrushes (foam brushes work bold lines and shapes. White crayons create a resist on best) the jet and in the sky when blue watercolor paint is  markers, black applied.  water-based markers, assorted colors  crayons, white

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 46 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

KANDINSKY KIDS Materials: Product: A colorful watercolor painting  watercolor paints  glue Students will listen to music and look at colorful abstract  crayon, black paintings by . They will then portray  12” x 12” construction paper, positive emotions and actions in their own abstract white watercolor artwork.  9” x 9” construction paper, white

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 47 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

LAYERS OF LAND Materials: Product: A tissue paper collage of land layers  water cups  glue Students will examine how several artists have depicted  brushes land showing many layers. They will then create a  2" x 12" tissue paper, assorted layered landscape using tissue paper, collage techniques. colors  9" x 12" construction paper: white, light blue, gray and pink  12" x 14" construction paper, dark color (for frames)  watercolor paint sets LET’S DRAW LIKE VINCENT VAN GOGH Materials: Product: A picture similar to van Gogh  watercolor crayons  construction paper, light colors Using the book made by the Art Center (included), tell the  glue story of Vincent van Gogh. Students use painting crayons to make a similar picture.

LINE DANCING Materials: Product: A 12” x 18” artwork celebrating lines drawn,  copier paper cut, and created with bent wire  sketch books (included)  pencils Line and shapes are studied as being a part of two  drawing tools, assortment families, straight and curved. Students will learn how (included) artists can send messages by the kinds of lines and  18” length of wire (included) shapes they use. Then students will make a collage  12” x 18” construction paper, repeating lines with various drawing tools. A piece of black and a color wire is added to create a “dancing line”.  scissors  glue  yellow dots (included) LOOKING AT BUTTONS Materials: Product: A brightly colored shape design drawn from looking  oil pastels oil pastels, black at buttons  8” x 8” copier paper, white Students will sort buttons using Venn diagrams then use the  10” x 10” construction paper, buttons to design their artwork, which is colored using oil assorted colors pastels. They will learn to outline the shapes and draw details using a black oil pastel before framing it on a colorful construction paper.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 48 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

MAGIC LINES Materials: Product: An oil pastel drawing of lines bordered with  oil pastels eight monoprints  watercolor paints and brushes  12” x 18” construction paper, black Students will be inspired by Wassily Kandinsky artwork  3” x 3” construction paper, white before drawing lines using oil pastels on black  water containers construction paper. By using watercolors, students will  liquid glue, white create monoprints that show their magic lines.  pencil MONDRIAN BOOGIE WOOGIE Materials: Product: An abstract of city buildings created with cut  3” x 6” construction paper: red, paper yellow and blue  6” x 18” construction paper, black Students will listen to the style of Boogie Woogie music  1/2" x 18” construction paper, gray and look at the art influenced by this peppy swing beat.  1/2" x 12” construction paper, Piet Mondrian’s painting, Broadway Boogie Woogie, will white inspire students to design their own city using primary  scissors colors and their imagination!  glue MONDRIAN LINE DESIGN Materials: Product: A mounted cut-paper line design  11” x 17” construction paper, black and white (12” x 18” precut) Discuss different lines in your environment. Look at  12" x 18" construction paper, Mondrian reproductions, and then cut lines to make a assorted colors (for mounting) line design.  6" x 18" construction paper strips, assorted colors  scissors  glue MONDRIAN TREES Materials: Product: A drawing/painting of a tree  watercolor paint trays  brushes Piet Mondrian, best known for his paintings using  9" x 12" construction paper, white straight black lines and primary colored shapes, often  12" x 18" construction paper, dark studied trees. Students will draw and paint trees after color looking at Mondrian's early trees when he painted  water cup realistically, until they eventually become very abstract.  paper towels  oil pastels, black

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 49 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

MOUSE COLORS Materials: Product: A class color graph  tempera or washable paint: red, yellow and blue Students will study color through listening, reading,  18" x 24" paper, manila or white singing, talking, and mixing paint to discover what colors  butcher paper, white (for graph) happen when they are mixed.  sponge brushes (included)  feet patterns (included)  pencil MY COMMUNITY SQUARE Materials: Product: A quilt-like layered paper square with stamped  construction paper, white and patterns primary or secondary colors  crayons Students will learn that they are a part of a big world.  glue sticks They will use color squares to show their relationship to home, family, school, and community. They will explore lines and patterns on each layer of their squares with crayons and stamps. MY SHADOW & ME Materials: Product: An action figure with its shadow mounted on a  6" x 9" drawing paper, manila (one background piece)  12" x 18" construction paper, Students will look at two paintings by American artist colored Winslow Homer, focusing on shadows. After discussing  crayons, skin-tone shadows, students will draw a person in action with skin-  oil pastels tone crayons and oil pastels and cut it out with a  scissors construction paper double. Drawings are mounted on a  glue piece of large construction paper.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 50 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

NEBULAS: BIRTH OF A STAR Materials: Product: A mixed media picture of a star nebula  tempera paint, red and orange  oil pastels Students will study the phenomenon of the birth of a star  12" x 18" construction paper, from a nebula and create nebula pictures with paint, oil black pastels, and imagination.

ON MOTHER’S LAP Materials: Product: An interactive puppet with a chair  crayons  7” x 8” poster board or tagboard Students will share the book On Mother’s Lap by Anne  2” x 7” poster board strip Herbert Scott. They will talk about who cares for them  1/2“ x 5” poster board strips and the things that they care about. They will create a  glue chair from a rectangle shaped paper, and make pocket  3” x 5” or larger paper scraps, puppets with crayons and paper to tell their own story assorted colors about caring.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 51 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

PAINT BY NUMBERS Materials: Product: 2D drawing of a tractor on a farm-scape  4" x 6" construction paper, white background (one per student plus few extra)  5" x 12" construction paper, brown Students will learn about the "farm to table" cycle of  6" x 12" construction paper, blue or agriculture. Beginning with the farm, students learn about green the importance of the tractor in a farmer's life. Students  thin-tip marker, black create a farm field by printing tractor tracks and drawing  scissors in their crops. Next, they learn how to draw a tractor by  glue looking at photographs of actual tractors. Shapes and  crayons details play an important role in completing their drawings. PAINTING YOUR FEELINGS: FRANZ KLINE  Materials: Product: A large and bold mixed media abstract  liquid tempera, black expression of students’ feelings  18" x 24" paper, manila (large is best) Students will examine different ways to feel and then  oil pastels study the work of American painter Franz Kline, who  pencil often painted abstract pictures of his feelings. They will then create a bold mixed media abstract expression of their own feelings. PAPERMAKING  This appreciation kit contains a blender, screens, frames, other supplies and instructions to assist with papermaking.

PATTERNS IN NATURE: BOOLABOO Materials: Product: A design of "imaginary creature tracks" in a  construction paper, primary and specific color scheme (primary, secondary, warm, or secondary colors cool)  glue  scissors Students will study the ideas of patterns and "motif" and examine patterns in nature. They will make a pattern of imaginary creature tracks in a specific color scheme. PICASSO’S COLLAGES Materials: Product: A mixed media collage in the style of Pablo  12” x 18” construction paper, Picasso black  9” x 12” construction paper, Students will examine the collages created by Pablo assorted colors Picasso and then try a collage of their own in his style.  wallpaper samples  charcoal sticks

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 52 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

PIPE CLEANER PEOPLE Materials: Product: Drawings of people developed from stick  pipe cleaners figures, plus a small pipe cleaner "stick person" to model  crayons for drawings  pencil  copier paper, white Students will study the human figure and build a small pipe cleaner "stick person" to use as a model for drawing people in action. POPPIES FROM THE NEWS Materials: Product: 3D newspaper poppies standing in a clay vase  straws  pipe cleaners Students will create colorful flowers set in a clay vase  circle templates (included) using straws, pipe cleaners, and painted recycled  modeling clay newspaper.  scissors  4” x 4-1/2” cardstock  washable paint  newspapers  pencils PORTRAITS OF EACH OTHER Materials: Product: A portrait of a classmate  9" x 12" drawing paper, white  crayons Look at five different examples of portraits by various artists. Proportions of facial features are emphasized, and then students will color a head and shoulder portrait.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 53 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

RAINFOREST LAYERS Materials: Product: A layered paper rainforest made with textured  7” x 12” construction paper, black leaf patterns  6” x 7” construction paper, dark green Students will create layered rainforests and textured leaf  4” x 7” construction paper, light patterns by using tearing and freehand cutting green techniques. Students will read and be inspired of the  2” x 12” construction paper strips, book Jungle Song by Miriam Moss. assorted colors (for tree shapes)  2” x 12” construction paper strips, assorted colors and sizes (for leaf shapes)  2” x 2” metallic accent paper (optional)  glue  scissors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 54 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

SECRETS: SONJA KELLIHER-COMBS Materials: Product: An abstract texture rubbing in warm or cool  7” x 10” construction paper, white colors  9” x 12” construction paper: red, yellow, orange, blue, green and Students will look at Sonja’s art and how she hides violet secrets in her abstract art. They will make their own art,  4” x 4” cardstock, any color hiding a secret inside by gluing objects inside papers.  glue sticks They will use crayons to do a texture rubbing of their  scissors secret art.  6” thin gauge wire or string or yarn  popsicle sticks or tongue depressors  needlepoint mesh pieces  crayons, black  pencils  Q-tips™  crayons, warm and cool color sets SKY, MOUNTAINS, AND ME Materials: Product: Three "landscape shapes" and puppets made  6" x 9" construction paper, with construction paper and tongue depressors assorted colors  scissors Students will create a story using "landscape shapes"  glue glued on tongue depressors as puppets.  tongue depressors SOLAR STARS Materials: Product: A hanging string of suns and stars  markers: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet Students learn that our sun is a star and that sunlight is  scissors made up of the colors of the rainbow. After leaning  pencils information from a non-fiction book on the sun, they  1” x 3” construction paper: red, create a string of suns and stars using shipping labels, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, stickers, and construction paper. and violet  masking tape  yarn  fun stickers, variety  shipping labels or clear book covering film

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 55 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

SONYA KELLIHER-COMBS’ KUSPUKS Materials: Product: A 2D mixed-media collage  10” x 12” railroad board  12” x 14” construction paper, black Students will study Alaska Native artist Sonya Kelliher-  9” x 12” construction paper, warm Combs’ two-dimensional mixed-media art. They will and cool colors create a layered collage using a combination of  cellophane, warm and cool colors overlapping materials such as: art tissue, liquid glue,  bleeding art tissue, warm and cool cellophane, and printed-paper. The focal point will be a colors colorful parka cover most often known as a kuspuk.  liquid glue  paint brushes  containers (for diluted glue) SONYA’S SHAPES (3 LESSONS) Materials: Products: Lesson 1 – Artwork with various circles. Lesson 1 – Circle/ “Pore”: Lesson 2 – Collage of three-dimensional circles.  Construction paper: Lesson 3 – Collage with 2D and 3D spirals. o 4” x 4”, 3” x 3”, & 2” x 2” in red, yellow, & orange Lesson 1 – Circle/”Pore” o 9” x 12” in white & grey Students will be introduced to the work of artist Sonya  7.5” x 10.5” exam table paper* Kelliher-Combs, a nationally recognized  Oil pastels: blue, green, & violet painter and sculptor from Bethel, Alaska.  Black markers (thick & thin if Students will analyze the components of possible) Kelliher-Combs’ work. They will start  Glue sticks this three-part series of lessons by  Scissors working in layers (just like Sonya), and Lesson 2 – Oblong/”Secret”: experimenting with multiple ways one can create circles with pastels, markers, and scissors.  Construction paper:

o 6” x 9” and 2.25” x 3” black Lesson 2 – Oblong/”Secret” o 5.5” x 8.5” and 4.5” x 6” In lesson 2, students continue to engage with the red, yellow, blue, orange, inspiring work of Sonya Kelliher-Combs. The primary green, & violet focus will be on oblongs, shapes that  Glue sticks Kelliher-Combs refers to as “secrets.”

 Scissors Students will work with scissors,  Black markers (chisel-point markers, and pastels to cut, repeat drawn markers are the best) shapes, and grow oblongs/”secrets.” Lesson 3 – / “Eddy” Completed work results in a layered collage with a three-  Construction paper: dimensional element. o 6” x 12” and 3” x 12” red, yellow, & blue Lesson 3 – Spiral/”Eddy” o 4.5” x 4.5” black In this lesson, students learn the difference  Xerox of spiral cutting guide between primary and secondary colors.  Black markers They also learn multiple ways to create 2D  Scissors and 3D spirals, and how to collage with  Glue sticks positive shapes and negative space.

* Note: Your school nurse should have many rolls of exam table paper. It comes in 21” white/transparent rolls. Tracing paper in 7.5” x 10.5”-ish size would be a good substitute.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 56 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

STACKING STILL LIFE Materials: Product: A drawing of a stacked still life using markers  8" X 18" construction paper, white and crayons (two per student)  pencil Students will view two different still life paintings by the  thin-tip marker, black artist Piet Mondrian. They will recognize that the artist  crayons: yellow, green arranged everyday objects to create his composition and and black saw it many different ways. Students practice arranging paper cups, sponges, and paper rings, both 3D and 2D, as they discover the ways a still life helps artists to see and create an interesting composition for their work. STILL LIFE: DELICIOUS FRUIT (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A colorful mixed media fruit still life  2" x 6" construction paper, white  3” x 3” construction paper, white Students will study the time-honored theme of still life in  9" x 12" construction paper, black art and create a fruit still life of their own using prepared  Payons™ papers colored with Payons™.  scissors  glue  construction paper, brown (for bowl shape)  water cups SWIMMER: A MIGRATING SALMON Materials: Product: A relief sculpture (Super Dough™) of a salmon  Super Dough™: red, blue and with paper fins and a bead eye surrounded by a symbol yellow story written in oil pastel  construction paper, black  glue Students will look at the book Swimmer by Shelly Gill,  scissors which tells about a Yup’ik fish camp. They will learn the  construction paper: small amounts life cycle of salmon as told by Katya with her story knife. of red, blue and yellow Students will make a salmon out of Super Dough™,  pony bead learn about primary colors, and use symbols to tell the salmon story.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 57 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

TOYS & US: FIGURE TOYS Materials: Product: Packaging and a name for a toy  6” x 12” construction paper, assorted colors Students will learn about the history of some of the most  2” piece of masking tape (per popular toy figures, and look at how packaging student) influences those who buy toy products.  glue  scissors TRACTOR TRACKS Materials: Product: 2D drawing of a tractor on a farm scape  4" x 6" construction paper, white background (one per student plus few extra)  5" x 12 construction paper, brown Students learn about the "farm to table" cycle of  6' x 12" construction paper, blue or agriculture. Beginning with the farm, students learn green about the importance of the tractor in a farmer's life.  thin-tip marker, black Students create a farm field by printing tractor tracks and  scissors drawing in their crops. Next, they learn how to draw a  glue tractor by looking at photographs of actual tractors.  crayons Shapes and details play an important role in completing their drawings.

VEGGIES: MATISSE GOES TO MEXICO (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A cut-paper veggie art in the style of Matisse  tempera cakes using painted and patterned paper  prepared papers (pre-painted)  construction paper Students will explore a cut-paper artwork by Henri  scissors Matisse called Vegetables. They will then look at  glue colorful vegetables made in Mexico.  Mexican papier-mâché veggies (included)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 58 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

WEATHER LINES Materials: Product: A tissue paper painted collage  6" x 18" construction paper: light blue, gray, pink, dark blue, purple, Several artist reproductions of different kinds of weather red and orange and cloud formations are studied. Students will make a  9" x 12" construction paper: light weather-filled sky using line. They will add color by blue, gray, pink, dark blue, purple, brushing water over the tissue paper clouds. red and orange  3" x 18" construction paper, black  3" x 9" construction paper, black  tempera cakes, white  crayon, white  paint brush  water cup  liquid glue  tissue paper, assorted colors  paper towels

WEAVE N’ PRINT Materials: Product: Stamped prints on woven colored construction  tempera paint, white paper  construction paper, colored  glue Students will explore two art processes, paper weaving  scissors and printmaking, and combine the two in a delightful  Plasticine™ clay (oil-based) mixed media project. The printmaking "stamp" is made from Plasticine™ (oil-based) clay.

WIND & WINGS Materials: Product: A paper flying shape with paint, wire, and tissue  6” x 18” paper, white paper  watercolor paints  pipe cleaners or wire Students will learn about Orville and Wilbur Wright, the  tissue paper inventors of the airplane. Next, students will go on a  scissors journey with the wind using the book Gilberto and the  hole punch Wind.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 59 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

WINTER COLOR LANDSCAPES Materials: Product: A winter landscape with a painted sky and cut  large paper, white trees  marker, black  tempera cakes: yellow, blue and Students will talk about colors they have seen in the magenta winter sky, and look at how Fairbanks artist Dan Kennedy  water cups uses watercolor wash to create the colorful skies in his  brushes paintings. To create their own landscape, students will  scissors draw horizon lines in marker, use paint to "wash" the sky,  glue and then draw trees, cut them out, and glue them onto the painting.

WIRE, BEADS, & ME WITH KELLIHER-COMBS Materials: Product: A 3D wire sculpture  9” x 12” construction paper, white  1-1/2” x 4” railroad board, various After studying Inupiat/Athabascan visual and jewelry colors artist Sonya Kelliher-Combs, students will twist a wire into a 3D sculpture. Inspired by Sonya’s designs, they will balance round stickers, shiny beads, and colorful paper to create a symmetrical form and then jot down a short description of it.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 60 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 First Grade

YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND IN ME Materials: Product: A self-portrait using watercolors and black  9” x 9” construction paper, black markers. A “speech bubble” is added with a positive  7” x 7” construction paper, white comment to a friend.  3” x 4” paper, assorted skin-tones  watercolors Students will practice learning how to be a good friend  scissors using puppets from the movie Toy Story. Role-playing  glue about “tolerance in the toy box” will help them learn to  thin-tip marker, black accept new friends. They will use watercolors to paint a self-portrait and use symbols and shapes to show their special attributes.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 61 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Art Activities & Appreciation Kits

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 62 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Art Kit Order Assistance Sheet

Blue, bold-face font indicates a new kit. Abstract Torn Paper Animals Matisse Pocketbook African Masks Matisse Windows Anna's Athabascan Summer: Perspective Math-terpieces Artist Trading Cards Mehner: Making Our Way Athabascan Animal Legends Melody Makers Benny Benson & Your Personal Flag Mobiles: Our Solar System in Balance Birch Leaves Flutter and Fall Murals: Community Art Birthday of My Dreams MYtisse’s Encouraging Words Butterflies & Bugs: Symmetry in Nature Noggin Nesters Celebrations Oil Pastel Fruit Still Life Chimpanzees & Dr. Jane Goodall On the Surface: Water Art (2 Parts) Clay Character Stories Paper, Wire & Crayon Collage Collaborative “Peace” Parade Banners (2 Parts) Contemporary Cats People Doing Things Copernicus: So Heliocentric Polar Bears on Thin Ice Crayon Rubbing Prints Postcards from Alaska Cut-Shape Pictures (revised) Principles of Art (unit) Denise Wallace: Sharing Traditions Printmaking Editions (2 Parts) Dinosaur Texture Queen of the Nile: Egyptian Dufy, Raoul: Watercolors Quilts: Capture the Feeling Fantastic Fish Collage Raggedy Ann Meets Matisse (2 Parts) Finding Forms Scribble Drawing Groups of Animals Shape Stations (2 Parts) (revised) Head Lines Shaveroonies from Outer Space Health Nuts Skiers: Colors of the Arctic Winter Games Henri Rousseau: Alaskan Dino-Rainforest Sky Things Hip-Hip-Array-Ray Stella's Painted Sculptures (2 Parts) Insect Architects Still Life Drawing (2 Parts) Keeping Warm with Color Story Sculpture Landscape Impressions Sun Strokes Lines, Leaves & Color Symbols & Self Maria’s Pueblo Portrait Textile Designer: Maria’s Colorful Pillow Martinez Avanyu Serpent Texture Town: Fairbanks from Above Martinez Feather Design Textured Landscapes with Grant Wood Martinez, Maria: Shards of Clay Totem Tales Masks & Symmetry Trees & Beyond Mason, Charles: Photographer/Artist Wood, Grant: Landscapes Matisse: Jazz Wri-ting with Rhy-th — Art Appreciation Kits — — Art Trunks & Birds —

Nebulas: Birth of a Star (K-3) Alaska Native Art: Birds: Andy Goldsworthy: Art from the Earth (4-6) Calligraphy (4-6) Painting Your Feelings: Franz Kline (K-3) - Athabascan (K-3) Cartooning in Stages (4-6) Papermaking (K-6) - Aleut (4) Discovering Color with Sam Francis (K-3) Plovers: A Nature Sketchbook (3-5) - Yup’ik Eskimo (5-6) Escher (4-6) Puppets & Jim Henson (3-6) - General Studies (K-6) Please contact the Art Center for Flowers and Radial Design (3-6) Van Gogh (2-6) availability Modigliani (2-6) Watercolor Workshop: Wet-On-Wet (4-6) Mt. McKinley Landscapes (2-6)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 63 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Second Grade

ABSTRACT TORN PAPER ANIMALS Materials: Product: A torn animal picture • construction paper, assorted colors • glue Compare realistic and abstract animals. Use one set of animals per student, sort accordingly, then tear and arrange an animal in a setting. AFRICAN MASKS Materials: Product: A small construction paper African mask and a • 9" x 12" construction paper, black monoprint of that same mask displayed together and brown • 6" x 6" construction paper, black Students will study African masks from Nigeria and the and brown Congo, noticing the symmetry that appears in the • glue majority of the designs. Using paper cutting and • printmaking ink, black printmaking techniques, they will create a small mask • copier paper, tan and a monoprint of that mask. • crayons, white • brayer

ANNA’S ATHABASCAN SUMMER: PERSPECTIVE Materials: Product: A painted paper collage  construction paper, white  construction paper, assorted colors This kit is based on Fairbanksan Charles Ragins’  watercolor crayons or watercolor illustrations in the book Anna's Athabascan Summer. paint Students will learn to use the basic concepts of  scissors perspective to illustrate a summer scene featuring an  glue stick animal and themselves.  pencils ARTIST TRADING CARDS Materials: Product: A set of 27 Artist Trading Cards with learning  colored pencils activities  scissors  small envelopes or rubber bands Students will review the different artists they have (to hold sets of cards) studied in school so far by playing games with Artist Trading Cards. They will design several of their own cards to complete a small set for themselves or to trade. ATHABASCAN ANIMAL LEGENDS Materials: Product: A collage with a black silhouette of an animal  9" x 12" construction paper, black featured in a child’s legend and white  glue Students will study the book The Girl Who Swam with  crayons the Fishes, an Athabascan legend about a girl who  pencil became a fish. They will create art based on their own legend wherein they also become an animal.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 64 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

BENNY BENSON & YOUR PERSONAL FLAG Materials: Product: A paper flag  12” x 18” construction paper, primary and secondary colors Students will learn about Benny Benson and the history  6” x 18” construction paper, of the Alaska flag. After looking at many examples, primary and secondary colors students will create their own personal flag.  6” x 9” construction paper, primary and secondary colors  glue stick  scissors BIRCH LEAVES FLUTTER & FALL Materials: Product: colorful paper and chalk  4” x 18” construction paper, white and black  3” x 12” construction paper, green(s)  pencil (to write name only) Students will learn about how fading light, less and  chalk pastels: green, brown, red, cooler weather in autumn affects the color of Alaska yellow and orange birch leaves. Students will create a paper collage of a  paint brushes, large birch tree with beautiful leaves fluttering down against  glue and water solution (50%- the white background of their tree’s trunk. 50%)  glue cups, small (one per two students)  scissors  dry erase markers, chisel-point, black  glue sticks BIRTHDAY OF MY DREAMS Materials: Product: A birthday party invitation practicing colored  construction paper, black and white pencil design techniques  colored pencils  fine-tip marker, black Students will discuss the tradition of celebrating birthdays  glue in our society and how birthday traditions range from the  scissors simple to elaborate all over the world. BUTTERFLIES & BUGS: SYMMETRY IN NATURE Materials: Product: A symmetrical butterfly or bug made from  9" x 12" construction paper, construction paper assorted colors Students will examine examples of symmetry in nature  glue by studying photos of butterflies and bugs. Then they  scissors will design their own butterfly or bug being careful to keep it symmetrical in size, shape, and color.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 65 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

CELEBRATIONS Materials: Product: A watercolor painting of a celebration  12” x 18” construction paper, colored Students will look at the book I’m In Charge of  11” x 11” construction paper, white Celebrations, by Byrd Baylor, in which a young girl  white glue celebrates many happenings in nature. They then will use  pencil Payons™, a painting crayon, to create their own  Payons™ celebration of a pleasant memory.

CHIMPANZEES & DR. JANE GOODALL Materials: Product: An oil pastel drawing of a chimpanzee in its  oil pastels habitat  12" x 18" construction paper, black  copier paper scraps, white (for Students will examine the work of Jane Goodall, a practice) naturalist who studied monkeys and chimpanzees in their  pencil habitat. They will learn about migration and create their own oil pastel of chimpanzees in habitats. CLAY CHARACTER STORIES Materials: Product: A 3-D picture story  Super Dough™  4" x 6" index cards, white Students are introduced to basic clay techniques through  4-1/2" x 6" construction paper, the adventures of Teeny Tiny Clay Ball. They will then colored create their own clay character in a multimedia picture  glue story.  paper clips COLLABORATIVE “PEACE” Materials: Product: A peace mural  mural paper, white  chisel-tip markers, assorted colors Students will think about what wishes they might have  glue for the world. They will write their “wishes for a more tolerant world” with markers. They will each design one section of the Peace mural and join them all together to make a mural with a message of peace. CONTEMPORARY CATS Materials: Product: A colorful patterned cat  construction paper, assorted colors and sizes Students will look at cat photos and paintings by famous  12" x 18" construction paper, black artists. They will study the cats of Laurel Burch, a  metallic paper pieces, small contemporary artist, before creating a colorful and  oil pastels patterned cat of their own. They will choose a point of  scissors view (front, side, or 3/4), then cut out and decorate a cat.  glue

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 66 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

COPERNICUS: SO HELIOCENTRIC! Materials: Product: Interactive three-dimensional model of the inner  12” x 12” construction paper, solar system black and white  glue, white Students will be introduced to grade-level scientist,  glue stick Copernicus, as well as a brief history of solar models.  paint brushes, large (1” if possible) Students will develop and create an interactive  oil pastels; blue, green, red, brown, heliocentric model of terrestrial planets between Earth grey and yellow and the Sun. This lesson offers students the opportunity  scissors to blend pastels, collage tissue paper and make design  cups, small for paint decisions. Students learn about an important scientific advance through a visual art experience.  4” x 10” tissue paper; orange, red and yellow  temper paint, liquid, yellow (white possible substitute) CRAYON RUBBING PRINTS Materials: Product: A crayon-rubbing print with a 3-D shape  Dura Blocks™: red, yellow, blue, attached and multicolored  construction paper, white and Students will take a glimpse at how printmaking is used assorted colors in day-to-day living. They will cut shapes and make  glue repeated rubbings applying the principles of design in their “rubbed print.” CUT-SHAPE PICTURES Materials: Product: Students create an imaginary scene done as a  9” x 12” white construction paper collage using basic geometric/plane shapes in primary with a frame of 12” x 15” black and secondary colors. construction paper  Glue stick Students will learn how to cut basic geometric/plane  Scissors shapes from squares and rectangles of various sizes in  Primary and secondary color primary and secondary colors only. They will practice construction paper in a variety of combining their shapes to create more complex shapes, squares and rectangles of many as well as how a whole geometric shape can be different sizes partitioned into new fractional shapes. An emphasis will be placed on working large, as well as cutting and arranging all picture shapes before gluing anything down. Students will practice “drawing with their scissors.”

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 67 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

DENISE WALLACE: SHARING TRADITIONS (3 LESSONS) Materials: Product: Lesson 1 (Patterns) Pattern exploration  construction paper Amulet design in the historic Native, and Denise Wallace  black Sharpie style of jewelry markers, fine point Transformational “dancer” in the historic Native, and  glue Denise Wallace style of jewelry  assorted paperless crayons, earth tone (included) Students will learn about the traditions of Denise

Wallace’s Alutiiq/Sugpiaq people, and how Denise Lesson 2 (Symbols)  construction paper Wallace incorporates these images and traditions in her  tan (sub-tan jewelry designs. construction paper)  metallic foil paper Lesson 1: Students will be introduced to the fossil  glue that Wallace uses in her jewelry, and how to simulate that  scissors look on paper. Students will explore what makes up a  assorted paperless crayons, earth tone pattern as they design 4-6 different patterns of their own. (included) Lesson 2: Students will be introduced to Lesson 3 (Transformation) Native Alaskan history and how amulets were  construction paper used. They will design their own amulets in the  tan graph paper (sub-tan construction Denise Wallace style using symmetrical paper paper) cutting and continuing with pattern practice.  assorted Astrobrights/Fireworks color copy paper Lesson 3: Students will be introduced to  fine tip black markers additional Native Alaskan traditions of  Sharpie markers, storytelling with a 3-D paper cutting/folding, fine point masked dancer.  glue  scissors DINOSAUR TEXTURE Materials: Product: A mixed media dinosaur collage  18" x 24" drawing paper, white Students will become paleontologists, exploring the world  Dura-Blocks™ of dinosaur shapes and creating imaginative hides from  crayons various rubbing texture techniques.  6" x 18" construction paper, assorted dark colors  marker, black  glue and scissors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 68 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

DISCOVERING COLOR WITH SAM FRANCIS  Materials: Product: A large, colorful painting in the style of Sam  large drawing paper, white Francis created with markers, brushes, and water  water cups  brushes Students are introduced to the large, non-representational  marker sets, primary and paintings of Sam Francis. They will discuss primary and secondary colors: red, orange, secondary colors and make a marker drawing. Then, yellow, green, blue, and violet using water and a brush, students will blend the marker colors on their papers. DUFY, RAOUL: WATERCOLORS Materials: Product: A brightly colored painting in the style of  12" x 18" drawing paper, white French artist  crayons or plastic crayons  watercolor sets Students will examine the works of French artist Raoul  brushes Dufy, and imitate his style of painting over light line  water cups drawings (crayon) with color diffusions (watercolors).

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 69 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

FANTASTIC FISH COLLAGE Materials: Product: A fish collage  6" x 18" or 9" x 12" construction paper, white Fish drawn by scientific illustrators and Alaskan artist  6" x 9" Astrobright® or Ray Troll will be studied, emphasizing shape and pattern. construction paper Students will then produce a collage using a variety of  12" x 18" construction paper, media. black  tempera cakes, assorted colors (four sets)  sponges, small (for each color)  scissors  glue FINDING FORMS Materials: Product: Quartered and framed marker drawing  Xeroxed worksheets  thick and thin markers, black Students will practice tracing and drawing geometric  markers, assorted forms. They will learn to "look" like artists and find colors geometric forms within classroom objects. They'll draw  glue sticks hidden forms and identify negative space. Students will  scissors carefully cut their work apart and then take time to  pencil arrange and rearrange their work until they develop a  5" x 17" construction paper, black pleasing composition.

GROUPS OF ANIMALS Materials: Product: A group of animals to hang on a window  plastic sheets, clear  3" x 5" index cards Students will discuss the list of collective nouns  tissue paper (included) to describe groups of animals. They will  glue stick (not white glue) design an animal, mount them on plastic, make a group of animals, and title the art.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 70 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

HEAD LINES Materials: Product: Students will create a self-portrait  markers  oil pastels Students will create a self-portrait that incorporates  pipe cleaners recycled materials and highlights the five senses.  recycled newspaper HEALTH NUTS Materials: Product: A 3-D wall hanging  12” x 18” construction paper, tan and brown Students will identify the many ways they are healthy  4-1/2” x 4-1/2” construction paper, tan through taking The BIG Quiz. The quiz teaches students and brown that they already eat good foods and are already involved  6” x 6” construction paper, tan and in healthy exercise. (The BIG Quiz is an orally delivered brown quiz that is fun and all students’ answers are correct.)  9” x 9” construction paper: red, orange, Students will go on to create a fun Health Nut character yellow, blue, green, violet, white, black and pink (in the form of a peanut or cashew) that “shouts” the  3” x 3” construction paper, black name of a healthy food or healthy exercise. Students will  1” x 3” construction paper, white use stencils, paper folding techniques, basic line  4-1/2” x 6” construction paper, white contouring and creative cutting and designing. When  2” x 4-1/2” construction paper, black displayed, these fun wall hangings will promote good  glue sticks health to the whole school.  scissors  pencils  Sharpie™ markers, black HENRI ROUSSEAU: ALASKAN DINO-RAINFOREST Materials : Product: Students will create a 3-D dinosaur rainforest One per student: that demonstrates foreground, midground, and  8” x 10” light or medium blue background using their imagination as Rousseau did. framed with 9” x 12” dark or black construction paper Artist Henri Rousseau had a passion for tropical  6” x 9” gray construction paper rainforests. He did research to learn as much as he could  4” x 8” construction paper, light or about these regions of the world and then used his medium green imagination to paint many famous pictures. Alaska is  3” x 13” construction paper, dark home to one of the largest green temperate rainforests that stretches  Glue stick along the southeast coast. Millions  Scissors of years ago, during the Cretaceous  Pencil period, dinosaurs once roamed Alaska’s temperate rainforests.  Crayons (to share)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 71 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

HIP-HIP-ARRAY-RAY Materials: Product: 3D model of a ray  9" x 9" construction paper, black or dark brown Students will be introduced to the concept of  1" x 1" construction paper, tan or multiplication through working with a simple array medium brown (objects organized into columns and row). The lesson  9" x 12" construction paper, tan or format allows for each student to work on a different medium brown array. They will go on to create a 3D spotted ray  oil pastels: white, red, yellow, constructed from paper and directly blue, violet, green and orange transfer their factors and product to  scissors their sculpture through pattering in  glue stick oil pastel in three possible color  pencil palettes. Students will mount their work on paper that they will fold to simulate sand ridges on the ocean floor.

INSECT ARCHITECTS Materials: Product: Rubbing that looks like an architectural  9” x 9” construction paper, light blueprint blue and white  10” x 10” construction paper, After studying the whimsical story and illustrations of black Roberto the Insect Architect by Nina Laden, students will  12” x 12” construction paper: design an insect’s house using symmetry, freehand white, medium blue and dark blue cutting, and rubbing techniques to create an imaginative  6” x 9” construction paper, violet piece of art that has similar visual qualities to  glue sticks architectural blueprints.  scissors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 72 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

KEEPING WARM WITH COLOR Materials: Product: A mixed media creation using only warm colors  smorgasbord of anything that is warm-colored (red, yellow, orange) Students will learn about how different animals survive including paint, crayons, markers, winter conditions, focusing on hibernation. They will talk oil pastels, yarn, paper, found about the importance of keeping warm and then look at objects, clay, string, crepe paper, how artists use color to show warmth. They will discuss tissue paper, etc. the warm and cool colors, and then make their own  glue inventive design using only warm colors.  scissors  hole punch  pencils

LANDSCAPE IMPRESSIONS Materials: Product: An impressionistic landscape  construction paper, black and white Students will look at a number of American  markers, black Impressionism paintings including Hillside Pastures by  tempera paints Willard Metcalf, examining in particular the lines of composition and use of light. They will then create an impressionistic landscape with tempera paint. LINES, LEAVES, & COLOR Materials: Product: A detailed marker and crayon drawing  6” x 9” construction paper, white  6” x 6” construction paper: black, Students will use a “Zoomer-inner” (circular viewfinder) to orange, green and violet help them focus in on leaves. They will create an interesting composition and look at the outlines, veins and colors of  glue sticks leaves. After looking and focusing, students will carefully  scissors draw in pencil what they see. Students will go on to draw over  thin-tip markers, black crayons their lines with thin-tip markers. Using crayons, students will experiment with blended colors to accurately shade their leaves.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 73 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

MARIA’S PUEBLO PORTRAIT Materials: Product: A paper collage of Maria Martinez outside her  Scissors Pueblo  Glue stick  Pencil Students will explore the multiple meanings of the word  Construction paper: “pueblo,” including the architectural o 9”x12” tan (pueblo) features of a pueblo-style building. o 3”x12” brown (ladder) Although Maria’s pottery is all black, o 2”x14” red, orange, yellow students will realize she is a very colorful (shawl) Students choose 1 artist when they look at the parts of a o 3”x3” black (pottery) 2 per traditional Pueblo woman’s regalia. student MARTINEZ AVANYU SERPENT Materials: Product: Movable paper Avanyu serpent, stamped with  scissors Pueblo symbols  glue stick  pencil The Avanyu serpent is a mythical Pueblo creature.  masking tape, 2” per student Students will discover the Avanyu is a reoccurring  7”x9” railroad board background, design motif in Maria Martinez’s pottery. any neutral color  tabloid size yellow printer paper*  *12”x18” construction paper, warm colors, may be substituted if unavailable  scraps of construction paper, assorted colors for eyes (about 1”x2”)  pipe cleaners MARTINEZ FEATHER DESIGN Materials: Product: Students will make two feathers and collaborate  3 1/2” x 11” Construction paper: with classmates to make a class set of raven wings. black and assorted colors  3” x 10” metallic Students will play “I Spy” finding colors, shapes, and foil paper and/or lines on real iridescent feathers, and learn about bird aluminum foil feathers. Maria Martinez’s pottery will be examined as  oil pastels students find different shapes and line designs - even  glue sticks hidden feathers!  scissors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 74 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

MARTINEZ, MARIA: SHARDS OF CLAY Materials: Product: A 2-D representation of a clay pot with a shard  9” x 12” construction paper, cut away brown and black  glue Students will review life of Maria Martinez, a Pueblo  scissors potter, and make a two-dimensional representation of  pencil pottery including a “shard.”  marker, brown MASKS & SYMMETRY Materials: Product: A mask that is symmetrical in both cut-shape and  9" x 12" construction paper, black oil pastel design markings  9" x 12" construction paper, Students will examine pictures of masks, including some assorted colors African and Native American Indian masks. After  scissors discerning which are symmetrical in design, they will  glue make their own masks trying to keep them symmetrical as well. MASON, CHARLES: PHOTOGRAPHER/ARTIST Materials: Product: A photo/charcoal/crayon collage with a chuckle in the  12" X 18" construction paper, subject matter black and white  scissors Students will study photographs by Fairbanks photographer Charles Mason looking for chuckles, as Mason calls them, in  glue the photos. These chuckles are created by points of view,  pencil juxtaposition, or the irony of the objects in the photos. Students  crayon, black will choose three images (an assortment is included) and  charcoal (included) combine and blend them in a photo collage, filling in the gaps by using charcoal to create various gray tones. MATH-TERPIECES Materials: Product: A torn paper and drawn habitat collage  6” X 18” construction paper, assorted colors Students will be introduced the concept of an artist’s  4” x 6” copier paper masterpiece through the book by Greg Tang,  markers, black Math-terpieces. Using each of the masterpieces, students  glue stick will collaborate and solve addition problems using the  scissors images from the artwork. Each student will then create their own work of art inspired by one of five habitats. Students will use torn paper to create the backgrounds, and then include drawn animals or objects in their habitats that can be counted. VOILA! A Math-terpiece! MATISSE: JAZZ Materials: Product: A collage of colorful shapes  construction paper, assorted sizes  watercolor paints Henri Matisse, a French artist, started as an oil painter.  brushes Due to poor health, he eventually began making cut-out,  water cups painted, paper collages. Students will paint some paper  scissors and include it in their colorful collage of a memory.  glue

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 75 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

MATISSE POCKETBOOK Materials: Product: A book featuring pockets on the inside  Xerox™ copies of student handouts Students use instructions (as nonfiction text) to help them  6” or 12” rulers, class set create a simple, foldable book featuring pockets. They  4-1/2” x 12” construction paper: go on to play bingo using Matisse shapes and nonfiction red, yellow, blue, orange, green, text features displayed in ScholasticART. Students violet, black, white decorate their books in Matisse-like shapes, and then  glue stick house all associated handouts in the pockets of their new  scissors book.

MATISSE WINDOWS Materials: Product: A 2-D paper collage  12” x 18” construction paper, light blue Students will look at examples of Matisse’s designs for  6” x 18” construction paper, black stained glass, his recognizable organic shapes, and  1/2” x 6” construction, black photographs of the artist working from his bed toward  9” x 12” construction paper, the end of his career. They will use drawing tools primary and secondary colors attached to long sticks and scissors to create shapes for  glue stick their own stained glass design.  scissors MEHNER: MAKING OUR WAY Materials: Product: A two-dimensional photographic collage  4-1/2” x 15” construction paper: red, yellow, blue Students will be introduced to photographic collage work  9” x 15” construction paper: created by contemporary Alaska Native artist Da-ka-xeen Mehner, where he “explores” traditional right-of-ways. orange, violet, green Students will consider their routes to school and then go on to  scissors select images of school buses, bikes, and students walking to  glue school. They’ll crop their images with a viewfinder to create  chalk pastels two dynamic compositions, and then arrange them using  tissues Mehner’s collage format. Using chalk pastels in  Xerox™ copies of photos and , student will tint their black and white maps (master included in kit) images and then frame collages with additional complementary colors. Students will complete their pieces by adding a small map of the local area to their collages, and then draw a symbolic line that represents their routes to school. MELODY MAKERS Materials: Product: A visual presentation of a piece of music with a  oil pastels repeating melody  glue sticks  scissors pencil Students will review the different artists they have  8” x 12” construction paper, studied in school so far by playing games with Artist assorted colors Trading Cards. They will design several of their own cards to complete a small set to keep or trade.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 76 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

MOBILES: OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IN BALANCE Materials: Product: Mobile featuring three-dimensional forms that  #1 size paper clips, 5 boxes of 100 relate to planets in our solar system  12” pipe cleaners: 200 (2 packs of 100) Students will create a mobile sculpture. After developing  8” plastic jumbo drinking straws: their mobile’s structure, students read non-fiction 200 (1/2 box of 400 from A&W descriptions of planets in our solar system, and then Wholesale) create three-dimensional forms from paper that relate to  2’ piece of string per student their understanding of the planets’ attributes. They  Glue-all® or white glue, 14 (one attach their planetary forms to their mobile in their solar between two) order, while simultaneously making constant adjustments  glue stick, one each to the many fulcrum points to help their sculpture  scissors balance and move.  paper strips/scraps, variety of colors (just tons!) MODIGLIANI ART APPRECIATION  This appreciation kit has historical information about Modigliani’s life, his style, and influences. There are center activities and suggestions for in-class projects.

MT. MCKINLEY LANDSCAPES Materials: Product: A pastel landscape of Mt. McKinley  drawing paper  construction paper Students will learn the basics of drawing and color  pastels: orange, blue and white mixing as they create a pastel landscape of Mt.  pencils McKinley.  glue sticks MURALS: COMMUNITY ART Materials: Product: A design for an outside mural  colored pencils or markers or crayons Students will examine murals from around the world and  12" x 18" construction paper, design their own mural for the outside of a building. colored MYTISSE’S ENCOURAGING WORDS Materials: Product: A card  4-1/2” x 6” construction paper, white  4” x 5-1/2” construction paper, black Students will develop a mono-print based on Henry  4-1/2” x 12” construction paper: red, Matisse’s paper cut-outs using Plexiglas® printing plates yellow, blue, green, orange and violet and water-based markers. They will go on to create a  5-1/2” x 8-1/2” copier paper card featuring their print and write encouraging words.  glue sticks All cards will be delivered to patients at local hospitals.  pencils  transparency markers, water-based  scissors  pencils

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 77 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

NEBULAS: BIRTH OF A STAR Materials: Product: A mixed media picture of a star nebula  tempera paint, red and orange  oil pastels Students will study the phenomenon of the birth of a star  12" x 18" construction paper, from a nebula and create nebula pictures with paint, oil black pastels, and imagination.

NOGGIN NESTERS Materials: Product: 3D paper chicken that can be worn on head  9" x 12" construction paper: red, yellow, blue, orange, green, and Students learn about basic chicken anatomy. They go on violet to create chicken anatomy from cut paper in primary  4-1/2" x 12" construction paper: colors (red, yellow, and blue), and secondary colors red, yellow, blue, orange, green and (orange, green, and violet). Students assemble their own violet wearable (on the "noggin") 3D chicken. Extend the  2" x 9" construction paper: red, lesson by doing a guided group reading of "10 Things yellow, blue, orange, green, and You Should Know Ab out Raising Backyard Chickens." violet  3" x 6" construction paper: red, yellow, blue, orange, green, and violet  1" x 4" construction paper: red, yellow, blue, orange, green, and violet  1" x 2" construction paper, white (for eyes)  poster board, 1" x 28" strips (or two 1" x 18" construction paper strips glued end-to-end will work)  glue sticks  scissors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 78 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

OIL PASTEL FRUIT STILL LIFE Materials: Product: A realistic fruit still life  9" x 12" construction paper, colored Students will examine Cezanne’s fruit still life and learn  oil pastels oil pastel techniques to create realistic still life of their  scissors own.  glue ON THE SURFACE: WATER ART (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: An iridescent on collaged paper  4” x 6” construction paper: black, blue and purple Students will look at how artists interpret water in paintings  white glue and photography. They will look at artwork from the Rose Berry Gallery, focusing on the photography of Michael Kelly.  scissors Students will create their own waterscapes by capturing color from the water’s surface.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 79 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

PAINTING YOUR FEELINGS: FRANZ KLINE  Materials: Product: A large and bold mixed media abstract  liquid tempera, black expression of students’ feelings  18" x 24" paper, manila (large is best) Students will examine different ways to feel and then  oil pastels study the work of American painter Franz Kline, who  pencil often painted abstract pictures of his feelings. They will then create a bold mixed media abstract expression of their own feelings. PAPERMAKING  This appreciation kit contains a blender, screens, frames, other supplies and instructions to assist with papermaking.

PAPER, WIRE, & CRAYON COLLAGE Materials: Product: A mixed media collage with 3D aspects  plastic coated wire, small gauge (communications wire) In this lesson, students will use telephone wire in a  9" x 12" construction paper, collage with paper and crayons. Contour lines and colored contrasting colors are studied in the process.  glue  scissors  Dura-Blocks™ or crayons PARADE BANNERS (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A large banner with a colorful background and  24" x 18" construction paper, message white  glue Students will look at photos of parade banners and see  liquid tempera paint, assorted the variety of ways to show one's message. Using liquid colors tempera, students will create a colorful background  computer (on which to type, print behind a message they will print out on the computer, and glue a message on a banner) using a large and bold font for the words. (This can be done by hand if the computer is unavailable.) PEOPLE DOING THINGS Materials: Product: A cut-paper collage of a human figure in action,  12" x 18" construction paper, dressed according to the activity shown assorted colors  9" x 12" construction paper, Students will look at three paintings in which artists’ assorted colors depicted people in action then they will cut the parts of a  paper scrap box, colored body and put them together.  white glue  scissors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 80 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

POLAR BEARS ON THIN ICE Materials: Product: A 2D print  6” x 4-1/2” construction paper, white Students learn the International Polar Year occurs every  4-1/2” x 3” construction paper, twenty-five years and Fairbanks had the honor of hosting white the IPY in 2008. This lesson teaches about the scientific  2-1/4” x 3” construction paper, evaluations of the health of Arctic regions, in particular, white the warming of our planet and its effect on polar bears.  9” x 12” construction paper, white After discussion, students will develop and create a polar or gray bear printing plate and make a printout of their bear.  8” x 11” construction paper: pink, blue and black  printing ink  glue stick  scissors POSTCARDS FROM ALASKA Materials: Product: Alaskan postcard suitable for mailing  markers, assorted colors  white glue or glue stick Students will discuss the many colorful aspects of  scissors Fairbanks along with some high points of its history.  pencil After examining post card styles, they will design a post card emphasizing one aspect that captures the essence of living in Fairbanks. They will then write a note on the back so they can send it to someone.

PRINCIPLES OF ART (UNIT) Materials: Product: Lesson 1 (emphasis) Lesson 1: Paper-cut collage and oil pastel drawing  4-1/2” x 12” construction paper: Lesson 2: Paper-cut collage red, yellow, and blue Lesson 3: Paper-cut collage, marker drawing with 3D  6” x 9” construction paper: red, element yellow, and blue  4” x 11-1/2” construction paper, Lesson 1: Students look at a variety of images (e.g., black famous works of art, pop-culture images, photos taken in  5-1/2” x 8-1/2” construction paper, nature, photos of Alaska Native artifacts) and learn that black every artist uses the Art Principle EMPHASIS! Students  3” x 3” construction paper, white go on to make thumbnail sketches and  oil pastels explore how they would like to use  scissors EMPHSSIS in their art. They show their understanding of EMPHASIS by creating a  glue sticks piece of art using contrasting colors,  pencil contrasting elements and/or by designing an interesting composition with cut shapes and Lesson 2 (balance) oil pastels.  6” x 18” construction paper, white and black  5” x 8” construction paper: white, black, and gray

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 81 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

 2” x 4-1/2” construction paper: Lesson 2: Students look at a variety of images and white, black, and gray evaluate if the artists have used symmetrical BALANCE  2” x 4-1/2” construction paper: (formal balance) or asymmetrical BALANCE (informal red, yellow, and blue balance). They will create duplicate cut paper shapes in  pencils black, in white, in gray, and in primary colors. Using  glue sticks their cut-shapes, students go on to explore both  scissors symmetrical and asymmetrical balance by creating two pieces of art that Lesson 3 (combining emphasis and illustrate their balance) understanding of this  6” x 9” construction paper, black art principle.  6” x 9” construction paper, white Lesson 3: Students demonstrate their understanding of  pencil BALANCE by creating an asymmetrical or symmetrical

 6” x 9” tissue paper, variety of collage. They will add interest to their collage by colors developing complementary design elements with marker  markers, thin-tip, black and create depth in their work  glue sticks by adding a translucent layer of  scissors colored tissue over their work. They will complete their piece by adding a contrasting symmetrical or asymmetrical area of EMPHASIS. PRINTMAKING EDITIONS (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A basic “plate” of an imaginary unit of money,  printing ink then will print a specific number of bills in an “edition”  copier paper  12” x 18” construction paper Students will examine paper money, considering both its function and printmaking design.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 82 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

QUEEN OF THE NILE: EGYPTIAN Materials: Product: An oil pastel drawing of an Egyptian queen  broad-tip markers, dark colors done in the Egyptian frontalism-style  oil pastels  12" x 18" drawing paper, white Students study the art and culture of ancient Egypt, with an emphasis on the frontalism painting style. One student models the Egyptian queen costume, included in the kit, and the students draw her in the frontalism-style. QUILTS: CAPTURE THE FEELING Materials: Product: Small quilt-type designs that "capture the  construction paper, colored feeling" of a beach, desert, or jungle  scissors  glue Students will examine how artists use color and shape to "capture the feeling" of a particular place and try to do likewise in a small paper quilt design.

RAGGEDY ANN MEETS MATISSE (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A large, brightly colored decorative painting  12" x 18" construction paper, white Students will learn about and discuss artwork of Henry  brushes, 1" and one smaller one Matisse. They will paint a picture of a large doll  liquid tempera: red, yellow, blue, (included) with patterns. white and black  newspaper (to protect desks)  water cups

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 83 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

SCRIBBLE DRAWING Materials: Product: A sketchbook containing scribble drawings  pencil  12" x 18" newsprint or drawing Students will learn scribble techniques for drawing paper people in different poses. Several students will pose as  12" x 18" construction paper, the class draws multiple sketches in their sketchbooks. assorted colors

SHAPE STATIONS (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: Students create an imaginary “shape (space)  9” x 12” construction paper, black station.” or dark blue  Liquid or cake Tempera paint in Students create an imaginary “shape (space) station” by primary & secondary colors painting 4 different, large geometric shapes with tempera  1” flat edge paint brushes, 4-5 per paint. Each shape is done in a different primary or color station depending on class secondary color, depending on the “color station” the size student arrives at. Then, they add connecting “walk  Oil pastels to share ways” between their “modules” with oil pastels. Patterns, windows, or other surface details are also added to each module, and students learn some techniques for creating shooting stars or other space objects.

This STEAM friendly lesson provides opportunities for exploration of some outer space and solar system connections. Students are encouraged to imagine what it would be like to live or work in outer space. It also provides additional practice with geometric/plane shapes and what makes these shapes different from organic shapes, such as clouds, which are found in the natural world. SHAVEROONIES FROM OUTER SPACE Materials: Product: A design of an outer space creature made from  9" x 12" construction paper, cut pieces of paper with added textures colored  scissors Students will learn how to cut or shave paper to make  glue interesting shapes. Then they will discuss different visual  markers, black textures and add textures to all the shapes before combining them to make a creature.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 84 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

SKIERS: COLOR OF THE ARCTIC GAMES Materials: Product: 3D sculpture within a diorama  9” x 12” construction paper: black, blue and pink Students are introduced to the Arctic Winter Games  4” x 9” construction paper: (AWG), as well as geographic locations of the medium green, dark green, white participating teams and team flags. They go on to create  4-1/2” x 4-1/2” construction paper, a winter diorama for a paper-sculpture skier, outfitted in white a race suit designed by students. All suit colors  3” x 6” construction paper: reds, correspond to an AWG team of students’ choosing. yellows, blues, greens, black and Students will position their skiers in action poses to best white show off their unique suit designs. Accessories such as  1/2" x 12” construction paper, warm hats, glasses, and racing bibs are added to black individualize the team skiers and extend students’  1-1/4” x 1-1/2” construction paper, creative efforts. light brown/tan  glue sticks  scissors SKY THINGS Materials: Product: A cut-paper collage of "sky things"  scissors  glue Students will categorize things found in the sky  2" x 18" construction paper, light distinguishing between that which is man-made, natural, blue living, and imaginary. Using various types of paper, they  4" x 6" construction paper, will then cut and paste to create a group of favorite sky assorted colors things.  4" x 5" Astrobright™ paper, assorted colors  4" x 2" metallic paper STELLA’S PAINTED SCULPTURES (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A 3D painted shape sculpture  construction paper, assorted colors and sizes The "painting sculptures" of contemporary artist Frank  scissors Stella are the focus as students discover all the different  glue lines a paintbrush can make. Shapes will be cut from the  brushes line experiments creating a three-dimensional painting.  water cups  paper towels STILL LIFE DRAWING (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A drawing of objects in a “still life”  pencil  9” x 12” drawing paper, white and Students will arrange ordinary objects and then draw black them, showing relation in space.  glue

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 85 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

STORY SCULPTURE Materials: Product: A small, free-standing sculpture based on a story  white tagboard or cover stock  scissors Students will discuss what is two- and three- dimensional,  pencil what is a sculpture, and will then look at examples of art  bag or to transport story in their community. Students will create a small, free- standing sculpture based on a story. SUN STROKES Materials: Product: Radial designs that are made with chalk dipped  liquid tempera paint in tempera paint  sidewalk chalk, pastels  12” x 18” drawing paper, white Students will study Vincent van Gogh’s painting style in which he used swirling lines to create the sun. They will make “sun-strokes” and swirling suns of their own. SYMBOLS & SELF Materials: Product: A 3D wall hanging featuring a foil mask and an  8” x 18” construction paper, black analogous color rubbing  6” x 18” construction paper, gray  4” x 8-1/2” construction paper, Students will be introduced to art made by contemporary black (for tri-fold) Alaska Native artist Da-ka-xeen Mehner. They will  glue sticks develop symbols that relate to their life, and create  heavy duty foil, large (18”) and background patterns using these symbols through crayon small (12”) rubbing techniques. Students will create a simple,  scissors molded foil mask of their own face, mount their  crayons (with paper off) likenesses to their background panel, and add additional materials to augment their personal wall hanging.  3” x 3” foil squares

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 86 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

TEXTILE DESIGNER: MARIA’S COLORFUL PILLOW Materials: Product: A 3D pillow design  12” x 18” construction paper, white  9” x 9” construction paper, white and Students will look at fabric examples to examine how black textile designers arrange motifs and color. With basic  white glue insight into repeat patterning and color arrangement,  pencils students will use Maria Martinez pot shapes to inspire  water-based chisel point markers, their own textile motif. Students will work with a colored colorful palette to develop a beautiful three-dimensional  permanent markers, black pillow design.  crayons, black  paper towels TEXTURED LANDSCAPES WITH GRANT WOOD Materials: Product: Textured landscapes  12” x 18” construction paper, white and colored Students will review landscape paintings by grade level  oil pastels artist Grant Wood, and create their own textured  glue landscapes with markers and oil pastels, filling in bits of  markers color where desired. TEXTURE TOWN: FAIRBANKS FROM ABOVE Materials: Product: Textured, mural-sized map of Fairbanks  butcher paper, white  glue sticks Students look at landscape paintings by Grant Wood and images from Earth from Above by photographer Yann Arthus-  copy of map masters Bertrand to better their understanding of implied textures.  pencils, regular classroom-type Using a variety of drawing tools, students will experiment with developing textures of their own, and go on to contribute to the creation of a colorful, highly-textured, large-format map of the North Star Borough. TOTEM TALES Materials: Product: A small 3-D paper totem pole  9” x 12” construction paper, tan  3" x 5" index cards Students will study totem poles, and then create a small  scissors totem that tells a personal or fictitious story.  glue  crayons or plastic crayons TREES & BEYOND Materials: Product: An oil pastel drawing of trees, land, and the sky  markers, black (class set)  oil pastels Oil pastel techniques will be used to draw trees, land, and  9" x 12" construction paper, the sky. The structure of the tree will be studied along assorted dark and light colors with reproductions showing artist interpretations.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 87 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

VAN GOGH ART APPRECIATION  This art appreciation kit introduces students to the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh. The focus is on his style and use of line and color. Appreciation activities are included.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 88 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Second Grade

WOOD, GRANT: LANDSCAPES Materials: Product: A farm  9" x 12" construction paper, white  12" x 18" construction paper, assorted Grant Wood painted the rolling hills and people of Iowa. dark colors Students will use Payons™ (painting crayons) to draw  paper towels (per two students) and paint the colorful layers of land showing the patterns  Payon™ sets (per two students) of crops.  water cups (per two students) WRI-TING WITH RHY-THM Materials (included in the kit): Product: A colorful print expressing their name in  lesson plan musical percussion  how-to movies on DVD  how-to posters (five) Students will make beautiful and colorful prints and  wooden spoons (class set-for use express their names through visual art and musical as barrens) percussion. Using cardstock and oil pastels, they will  take-home sheet, master copy make musical collages. They will use the number of syllables in their first and last names as symbols in their Materials (not included): designs. They will carefully handprint their collaged  glue sticks printing plates using wooden spoons as barrens.  scissors  oil pastels (one set per student)  9” x 12” construction paper, white (folded in half-“hotdog-style”)  4” x 10” railroad board or cardstock  4” x 2” railroad board (two per student)  1/4" x 12” railroad board or paper can work (six per student)  6” x 12” construction paper, black or gray

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 89 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Art Activities & Appreciation Kits

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 90 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Art Kit Order Assistance Sheet

Blue, bold-face font indicates a new kit. Adventurous People Kwanzaa Kinaras Alaskan Animals & Line & Shape Messages (revised) Arrayscapes Magic Machine Beautiful Oops! Mayan Headdresses: Animals in the Stars Berry's Animal Silhouettes Mexican Bark Painting Birch Poetree Mobiles: Our Solar System in Balance Blue Dog: A Icon Monet's Color Wheels Braiding: Mexico’s Day of the Dead Monet's Gardens Card Making Monet’s Underwater World Caribou on the Tundra Moon Collages Carlo’s Masks Murals of our Towns & Villages Celebrating the Elements My Monster's Pet Cezanne’s Apples Oil Pastel Flowers Chena River Appreciation Chinese Style Paper Lanterns Pastel Alaskan Animals Circles of Color Picasso's Animal Sculptures Comic Artist: Jamie Smith Picasso's Lines Commemorative Stamps of Yukon Quest Picasso’s Musicians Contour Shoe Drawing Picasso’s Portraits Dance Your Dreams Picasso’s Still Life with Guitar Detectives of Art "Pig"casso Dog Mushing: Sprinting & Printing Postage Stamps Dream Catchers Printmaking with a Message Endangered Species with Andy Warhol Pueblo Pottery Expressionist Environments Quilting with Fractions & Symmetry Fable Illustrations Raven Sculptures: John Hoover Fairbanks: River Travel Ringgold: I Can Fly Faith Ringgold’s Bridges Ringgold’s Art History Fiesta Flags Ringgold's Memory Quilts Flower Parts Ringgold’s Rhombus City Frog in Monet’s Pond Spiral, Shapes, and Houses Hills Starry Night: Van Gogh Haring's Action Figures Tile Design Hoover’s Culture Sculpture Trying Out Triangles Hoover’s Spirit Stories Undersea Garden: Ray Troll How I Find Graphic Design Watercolor Dragon Painting Illustrating Your Work Watercolor Monotype (revised) Imagine That Habitat Water Reflections of Claude Monet James Schoppert: Modern Faces What Color is Winter? — Art Appreciation Kits — — Art Trunks & Birds — Nebulas: Birth of a Star (K-3) Nebulas: Birth of a Star (K-3) Alaska Native Art: Birds: Calligraphy (4-6) Painting Your Feelings: Franz Kline (K-3) - Athabascan (K-3) Cartooning in Stages (4-6) Papermaking (K-6) - Aleut (4) Discovering Color with Sam Francis (K-3) Plovers: A Nature Sketchbook (3-5) - Yup’ik Eskimo (5-6) Escher (4-6) Puppets & Jim Henson (3-6) - General Studies (K-6) Please contact the Art Center for Flowers & Radial Design (3-6) Van Gogh (2-6) availability Modigliani (2-6) Watercolor Workshop: Wet-On-Wet (4-6) Mt. McKinley Landscapes (2-6)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 91 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Third Grade

ADVENTUROUS PEOPLE Materials: Product: “Little people” drawn on large objects • thin-tip markers, assorted colors • glue sticks Students will draw “little people” having adventures on • 9” x 12” construction paper, large objects associated with Mexico and Canada. assorted colors • large object photocopies (included) ALASKAN ANIMALS & FRANZ MARC Materials: Product: An oil pastel drawing of Alaskan animals  6" x 4" construction paper, white Students will learn about Franz Marc, a German painter  6" x 4" construction paper, who loved to paint colorful animals in a dream-like way. assorted dark colors They will draw their own Alaskan animals using  9" x 12" construction paper, black geometric shapes and repetition to complete the design.  oil pastels Oil pastels are used as they choose between warm and  fine point pen, black cool colors to separate animals from the background. ARRAYSCAPES Materials: Product: A pop-up castle or city with mathematically  glue sticks arrayed windows and landscape background  scissors with imaginative details  markers, thin black  9" x 12" construction paper, grey Students become whimsical pop-up architects! and black They look at cityscapes and "castlescapes" to inspire  6" x 9" construction paper, grey their personal "arrayscape." The windows of the and black buildings show mathematical arrays. Backgrounds and  9" x 12" construction paper: details are added with pen, pastels, and paper scraps to various shades of blue, lavender, enhance their 3D buildings. Each artwork contains a and magenta simple equation.  pastels, oil or chalk  paper scraps, colored

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 92 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

BEAUTIFUL OOPS! Materials: Product: A dimensional collage using pencil, oil pastel  9” x 12” construction paper, black and marker and assorted colors  oil pastels Inspired by the book Beautiful Oops! by Barney  fine-tip markers Saltzberg, students will learn to see a perceived mistake as  pencils an opportunity to make something new and exciting.  glue sticks Creative thinking and problem solving are used as student received an “oops” scrap to start them off in creating a dimensional collage with pencil, markers and oil pastels.

BERRY’S ANIMAL SILHOUETTES Materials: Product: Prints of Alaskan animal silhouettes  printing brayer (roller)  water-based printing ink, two Students will cut their own silhouettes of animal shapes colors to make a printing plate, and then print it using a  6" x 12" papers, white sulfite "rainbow roll" print. drawing or colored construction  4” x 4” poster board (one per student)  scissors  pencils  cafeteria tray  sheet of acetate  glass (to roll ink)

BIRCH POETREE Materials: Product: A 3-D shadow box with birch tree collage and  construction paper, black and floating sentence poem white  tissue paper, assorted colors  newsprint or phone book pages Students will learn the importance of framing their art as  8-1/2” x 11” transparency they create a three-dimensional shadow box that features  oil pastels an abstract collaged birch tree. Using their tree for  8-1/2” x 11” copy paper inspiration, students assemble a poetic sentence that hovers in front of their tree. Finishing touches are added with oil pastels and really make these “poetrees” stand out.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 93 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

BLUE DOG: A POP ART ICON Materials: Product: Students create their own Blue Dog image  8” x 9.5” construction paper: black  7” x 8.5” copy paper (half the Students study the art of George Rodrigue and his iconic legal size) Blue Dog image. Students learn the history behind the  glue image and how George Rodrigue was inspired to create  scissor it. Then, they engage in authentic art making while  pencil learning essential art skills and vocabulary to create their own Blue Dog image. BRAIDING: MEXICO’S DAY OF THE DEAD Materials: Product: A pipe cleaner braid mounted on a colorful  pipe cleaners stamped paper  construction paper, assorted sizes  glue stick Students will read the book, A Gift for Abuelita, about  stamps (made from rubber erasers) Mexico’s “Day of the Dead” and then will learn to braid  scissors with three strands. Eraser stamps create patterns on the background paper.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 94 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

CARD MAKING Materials: Product: A greeting card with cut and corrugated paper, a  construction paper: warm, cool, specific color scheme, and a specific design and neutral colors  decorative scissors (included) Students will learn about the art of card making as they  metallic paper pieces, small are introduced to Tramp-Art, a form of ornamentation  paper corrugator tools (included) using recycled materials to decorate objects. They will design their own cards using a variety of papers, fancy paper-edgers, and thread. CARIBOU ON THE TUNDRA Materials: Product: A tissue paper collage of a tundra landscape  tissue paper, colored (that bleeds with a caribou or hint of a caribou when wet)  12" x 18" construction paper: Students refer to A Caribou Journey to learn about green, black and brown caribou and their environment, the tundra and its impact  9" x 12" construction paper, white on the Athabascan people.  glue  water cups  brushes  6" x 12" construction paper, black  6" x 4-1/2" construction paper, black CARLO’S MASKS Materials: Product: Construction paper mask  9" x 12" construction paper: blue, orange, purple, brown, gray and Students will learn about Athabascan artist Kathleen green (2 values each) Carlo. They will study her masks as they use the art  construction paper pieces, small, elements to create their own two-value mask. assorted colors (including black)  glue  12" x 12" construction paper, black  scissors CELEBRATING THE ELEMENTS Materials: Product: A painted collage using the art elements  watercolor paints  oil pastels, black Students will look at a painting by Roy Lichtenstein and  12” x 18” construction paper, discuss how he uses the art elements of line, shape, color, black and texture. Then they will create a piece of art by  9” x 12” construction paper, white drawing and painting using the elements of art as  6” x 12” construction paper, white inspiration.  glue sticks  scissors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 95 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

CEZANNE’S APPLES Materials: Product: A realistic apple drawing that combines with the  oil pastels class set to make a large still life  9” x 9” construction paper, brown  scissors Students will learn about the nutritional value and health  butcher paper: white, brown and benefits of apples and study them like the artist Cezanne. one color Oil pastels are used to create the highlights and shadows  bulletin board, clear (for display) of these healthy fruits. A class set comes together to make a large artwork that resembles one of Cezanne’s many still lifes.

CHENA RIVER APPRECIATION Materials: Product: A vibrant, abstract, oil pastel drawing on metallic  construction paper, black paper  metallic paper Students will review how the Chena River played an  oil pastels important role in creating Fairbanks, and the many ways it  glue sticks enhances our community. As Fairbanks was being  colored pencils, white only formed, so was a new in Europe called . Art Nouveau focuses on nature with sweeping curves and stylized lines. Students will recreate this feeling in a piece of artwork with oil pastels, making river-like forms on metallic paper. Lines and patterns are etched-in to add texture and finishing details.

CHINESE STYLE PAPER LANTERNS Materials: Product: A 2-D, colorful, animal-shaped, paper lantern  9” x 12” construction paper, assorted colors Students will be inspired by the story and illustrations of  1-1/2” construction paper, squares Stefan Czernecki’s book, Paper Lanterns. Students will  3” x 1-1/2” construction paper, create bright animal-shaped paper lanterns with simple  •4-1/2” x 6” tissue paper, assorted design motifs. colors  pipe cleaners  glue sticks  scissors

CIRCLES OF COLOR Materials: Product: Four squares of painted circles  tempera cakes, primary and secondary colors Students will look at the color study painting of  brushes concentric circles done by artist Wassily Kandinsky.  water cups They will learn about color schemes and create their own  18” x 18” paper, white color study with tempera paint.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 96 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

COMIC ARTIST: JAMIE SMITH Materials: Product: A wacky collaboratively drawn character with  copy paper outlining and texture added by markers  9” x 12” construction paper, black  pencils Students are introduced to the multi-faceted, local comic  thick-tip felt markers, black artist Jamie Smith. Students will look at his communal  fine-tip felt markers, black approach to comic art, and play a traditional comic game  ultra-fine point pens (3 thicknesses in which a character is created. Using drawing of markers; thick, medium, thin) techniques and felt tip pens, students will “ink” in the character and name the odd creation. COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS OF YUKON QUEST Materials: Product: Students will develop their own commemorative  9” X 12” construction paper: black stamp and white  7.5” x 9” construction paper: Students learn about the history of the Yukon Quest, and various colors the concept of commemoration through postage stamps.  glue stick They will develop their own commemorative stamp  ruler honoring the sled dogs as arctic athletes involved in this  colored pencils great race.  fine tip black markers CONTOUR SHOW DRAWING Materials: Product: A line drawing of a shoe  paper  pencils Students will become aware that a drawn line often  glue stick represents the edge of an object. As artists, they will learn  construction paper, black how to see an edge and then record that edge on paper. Using their shoe as a model, students will create a contour line drawing.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 97 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

DANCE YOUR DREAMS Materials: Product: A collage figure of a person in action  Three values of green, purple, orange, and brown Students will read Rap-A-Tap-Tap, a book inspired by  scissors Bill Robinson, an African American dancer who  glue followed his dream before the Civil Rights Movement.  metallic paper While thinking about their own dreams, students will create a collage of a person in action. Movement is shown with repeated arms or legs in changing values of a color. DETECTIVES OF ART Materials: Product: An oil pastel enlargement of part of a painting  oil pastels Students are detectives of art as they gather clues about  6" x 4-1/2" construction paper, their three third grade artists – Claude Monet, Pablo white Picasso, and Faith Ringgold. Using the clues they have  6" x 9" construction paper, black learned, they will play a game of “guess the artist.” Each  glue student will then take a reproduction from one of the  view finders artists and draw a small part using oil pastels. DISCOVERING COLOR WITH SAM FRANCIS  Materials: Product: A large, colorful painting in the style of Sam  large drawing paper, white Francis created with markers, brushes, and water  water cups  brushes Students are introduced to the large, non-representational  marker sets, primary and paintings of Sam Francis. They will discuss primary and secondary colors: red, orange, secondary colors and make a marker drawing. Then, yellow, green, blue, and violet using water and a brush, students will blend the marker colors on their papers. DOG MUSHING: SPRINTING & PRINTING Materials: Product: A side by side print and printmaking plate  ink, white showing two mushing teams with white ink on black  construction paper, black paper  glue sticks  poster board Students will design an abstract printmaking plate with a  crayons sprinting dog team and athlete and will see how it flips when they print it. Students will learn about the different distances of dog mushing in the Arctic Winter Games and compare and contrast it with the Yukon Quest. Finally, they will get to hand color their print making it really come to life.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 98 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

DREAM CATCHERS Materials: Product: A dream catcher  pipe cleaners  wire Students will look at the Ojibwa Indian tradition of  yarn weaving dream catchers. They will choose color schemes  beads using the universal themes of earth, water, wind, and fire.  feathers Students are taught how to do a “half-hitch” as they  grasses or raffia weave their dream catcher.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 99 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

ENDANGERED SPECIES WITH ANDY WARHOL Materials: Product: A portrait of an endangered species done in  paint brushes tempera paint and oil pastels  water cups  oil pastels Students will learn about artist Andy Warhol, how he  11" x 11" construction paper, added color and line to photographs, and his Endangered assorted colors Species series. Using templates, tempera cake paint, and  12" x 12" construction paper (for oil pastels, students will create their own colorful mounting) endangered animal painting.  glue (for mounting)  pencil (for tracing) EXPRESSIONIST EVIRONMENTS Materials: Product: A paper pop-out form filled with line, shape,  oil pastels color, and texture  2” x 9” construction paper, assorted colors, Students will look at artist Judy Pfaff and her style of  2” x 12” construction paper, assorted work. They will use color, shape, line, and texture colors  3” x 9” construction paper, assorted creating a three-dimensional environment out of paper. colors They will then cut, fold, curl, and bend paper, adding  6” x 6” construction paper, assorted wire and oil pastel design for detail. colors  9” x 12” construction paper, assorted colors  2" x 18" construction paper, black  scissors  glue  telephone wire

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 100 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

FABLE ILLUSTRATIONS Materials: Product: Illustrated fable characters  fine-tip pens, black  9” x 12” construction paper, black Students will become fable illustrators as they create  6” x 9” construction paper: green, animal characters with torn paper shapes. The title and gray, and brown moral of the fable, along with a patterned border,  6” x 4-1/4” construction paper, embellish the design. assorted colors FAIRBANKS: RIVER TRAVEL Materials: Product: A torn paper landscape embellished with oil  oil pastels pastels and colorful cut-out drawings of one type of river  construction paper, assorted sizes transportation  thin-tip markers, black  scissors Students will look at the modes of river travel when Felix  glue stick Pedro discovered gold. After observing sternwheelers, canoes, barges, and rafts, students will create a river scene collage with a boat of choice using torn paper, oil pastels, and black pens. FAITH RINGGOLD’S BRIDGES Materials: Product: A layered watercolor cityscape with a black  construction paper, black and glue suspension bridge white  glue sticks Students will look at Faith Ringgold’s Bridges series and  scissors learn that many famous artists used bridges as subjects.  watercolor paint sets Using color theory, students will make prepared papers  glue (mixed with black paint) that they use to create a cityscape and add a bridge using  paintbrushes, #10 and #7 a black glue line. Students will also learn about Faith’s use of bridges to represent overcoming struggles and adversity. FIESTA FLAGS Materials: Product: A string of five bright analogous colored flags  copy paper celebrating a person or a holiday of a students’ choosing  poster board  construction paper Students will learn that a fiesta is a celebration with food,  glue dancing, Mariachi music, and colorful decorations. One  crayons type of decoration in particular, Mexican “papel  string picados,” is studied and these cut paper flags inspire the art project. Students will create a layered paper flag template, and then will make bright crayon rubbings with analogous colors. Multiple flags are created and strung together for their final festive artwork.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 101 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

FLOWER PARTS Materials: Product: A drawing and a collage of flower parts  construction paper  oil pastels Students will study the parts of flowers and also learn  glue how botanist Elizabeth Britton drew hundreds of plants  scissors in detail. FLOWERS & RADIAL DESIGN  Materials: Product: A radial design of a drawing/painting  oil pastels  brushes Students will look at the many things around them, both  pencils natural and man-made, that have radial design. They will  rulers take a closer look at the radial design in flowers. Just like  scissors the flowers, they begin with a center shape and let the  9" x 12" construction paper, white flower grow as their ideas grow. They will finish with oil  paper towels pastels, watercolor, and contour cutting. FROG IN MONET’S POND Materials: Product: A watercolor painting of water lilies on a pond;  tempera cakes a frog is cut out and added later  6” x 18” construction paper, white  12” x 18” construction paper, dark Students will listen to the book Philippe In Monet’s colors Garden as they learn about the artist Claude Monet  6” x 9” construction paper, green through the eyes of a frog. They will recreate a Monet-  1" foam brushes like pond and then draw and cut out a frog.  water cups  paper towels  oil pastels  scissors  glue

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 102 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

GOLD HILLS Materials: Product: A marbled and torn paper mountain landscape  construction paper  liquid tempra paint: red, black, Students learn that gold was and is an important natural orange, and magenta resource in the Fairbanks area. They learn that the “gold  acrylic paint, gold in them, thar hills” is rarely in the nugget form of  glue sticks yesteryear. Today, gold is mined on a microscopic level. Inspired by the close up views of microscopic gold, students learn a marbling technique. With the marbled paper they create a torn paper landscape with swirls of gold in their hills.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 103 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

HARING’S ACTION FIGURES Materials: Product: Brightly colored action figures in the style of  scrap paper, white Keith Haring  9" x 12" construction paper, assorted colors Students will learn about contemporary artist Keith  6" x 9" construction paper, Haring who is famous all over the world for his assorted colors wonderful, cartoon-like paintings and graffiti art. He is  oil pastels known for his simple, playful figures drawn in subway  scissors stations, on buildings, furniture, clothing, etc. Students  glue will draw simplified "action figures" in the style of Keith Haring. HOOVER’S CULTURE SCULPTURE Materials: Product: A freestanding sculpture made with painted  pipe cleaners, four per student paper shapes and pipe-cleaners  copy paper  11” x 4” railroad board Students will review what they have learned about the  tempra cakes: red, yellow, orange, Aleut artist John Hoover and view his iconic sculpture blue, green, violet Seaweed People, which sits in the White House sculpture  1/2" easel paintbrushes garden. Inspired by this artwork, students will use  4” x 3” construction paper, green analogous, warm or cool colors and a dry brush painting technique to create prepared paper. They use this paper to  2” x 3” metallic paper make a low relief, 3D sculpture that shares Hoover’s  glue sticks cultural storytelling elements.  scissors HOOVER’S SPIRIT STORIES Materials: Product: A symmetrical, person and animal, mask-like oil  9” x 12” construction paper, several pastel artwork colors  9” x 9” construction paper: gray, tan Students are introduced to the Aleut artist John Hoover.  1-1/2” x 4” construction paper, light They will view his unique style of carved wooden panels brown and observe how his art shows a story or legend. Inspired  oil pastels (sorted into specific color by animal and human forms in Hoover’s work, students sets) use oil pastels and a cut paper panel to show a story of  felt-tip markers, black their own.  glue sticks  scissors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 104 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

HOW DO I FIND GRAPHIC DESIGN Materials: Product: A mini artist portfolio with a personal logo on  sketchbooks or ten sheets of copy the cover paper, stapled  9” x 12” construction paper, black Students learn that there are careers in the arts and the  1” x 9” construction paper, black class researches what a graphic designer does. They strips practice web-based search skills and how to navigate (or  3” x 4” construction paper, white get around) a website using hyperlinks and sidebars. Next,  markers students create a simple portfolio that displays their artistic process. In their portfolio, students work on a “graphic design challenge” where they create a personal logo.

ILLUSTRATING YOUR WORK Materials: Product: An illustrated writing by students  copier paper  overhead projector Illustrating techniques are explored with ink line  wide-tip felt markers, black drawings. Value, contrast, and texture are studied using  thin-tip felt markers, black the sketches of Toulouse Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh.  scissors Students will make illustrations with media suitable for  glue stick reproduction on the photocopier.  crayon, black Note: Teachers need to prepare a “typed student manuscript” before doing the art lesson.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 105 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

JAMES SCHOPPERT: MODERN FACES Materials: Product: 2D and 3D abstract paper designs Lesson 1  construction paper: white 3”x5” (3 This unit introduces the Alaska Native Artist James per student) and black 6” x 12” (1 Schoppert. The three lessons explore his influences per student) along with both his contemporary and traditional work.  black, thin marker Students create three different artworks focused on  thin markers, color pencils or creating an abstract face. The lessons include color crayons in shades of greens and theory, positive and negative design, 3D design, and blues collage. All lessons incorporate using one’s imagination  glue and creativity. Lesson 2  construction paper: brown 10” x 14” and black 9” x 4 ½”  glue  scissors Lesson 3  construction paper: black 8”x 8” and dark blue 6” x 6”  glue  scissors

KWANZA KINARAS Materials: Product: Kwanzaa kinara  construction paper, white and black  glue sticks Students will design a kinara for Kwanzaa by patterning a  scissors kinara with oil pastels and then painting over and scraping  oil pastels away paint to create a "graffiti" effect.  tempera paint, black  paper clips, bent  paper towels  paint brushes

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 106 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

LINE & SHAPE MESSAGES Materials: Product: A 3-D wire and paper collage  Scissors  Glue stick Students will learn how artists send messages by the  Pencil types of lines and shapes they use. Students will send a  6” x 12” construction paper, black “secret message” with their collage by repeating one type  5” x 11” construction paper: red, of line family and its related shape with oil pastels, magenta, orange, or green (students metallic paper, and wire. choose one)  2” x 4” metallic paper (colors match construction paper the students chose) or substitute tin foil  Oil pastels: white  Oil pastels, light or dark to match construction paper: pink and red, peach and orange, light green and green, or pink and purple  Thumb tack (shared in small groups)  2” masking tape LINE DANCING  Materials: Product: A 12” x 18” artwork celebrating lines drawn,  copier paper cut, and created with bent wire  sketch books (included) Line and shapes are studied as being a part of two  pencils families, straight and curved. Students will learn how  drawing tools, assortment artists can send messages by the kinds of lines and (included) shapes they use. Then students will make a collage  18” length of wire (included) repeating lines with various drawing tools. A piece of  12” x 18” construction paper, wire is added to create a “dancing line”. black and a color  scissors  glue  yellow dots (included) LINES, LEAVES, & COLOR  Materials: Product: A detailed marker and crayon drawing  6” x 9” construction paper, white Students will use a “Zoomer-inner” (circular viewfinder) to  6” x 6” construction paper: black, help them focus in on leaves. They will create an interesting orange, green and violet composition and look at the outlines, veins and colors of  glue sticks leaves. After looking and focusing, students will carefully  scissors draw in pencil what they see. Students will go on to draw over  thin-tip markers, black crayons their lines with thin-tip markers. Using crayons, students will experiment with blended colors to accurately shade their leaves.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 107 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

MAGIC MACHINE Materials: Product: A large size drawing of a student-invented  12" x 18" drawing paper, white or machine gray  thin-tip markers, black Students will look at the many types of simple machines  thick-tip markers, black (i.e., pulleys, wedges, gears) and then design their own  markers, assorted colors fanciful machine. MAYAN HEADDRESSES: ANIMALS IN THE STARS Materials: Product: An interactive, mixed-media moon, sun, and  construction paper, black stars painting  tin foil  craft sticks or tongue depressors Students will explore concepts of near and far and big  toothpicks and small, as well as practice their gluing skills. A  washable paint: white, yellow and mixed-media painting is created to show that the big and red bright sun can still be covered by the closer and smaller  Karo® syrup moon in an interactive art piece.  glue, white MEXICAN BARK PAINTING Materials: Product: A color marker drawing in the style of Mexican  markers, assorted colors bark painters  construction paper: manila, light brown and white Students will study the delightful bark paintings of  thin-tip drawing pen, black Mexican folk artists. Daily life, holidays, and cultural  construction paper, colored (for activities are depicted in these pattern-filled, colorful mounting) paintings. Students will use this style of painting to  glue create their own "daily life" drawing.  scissors MODIGLIANI ART APPRECIATION  This appreciation kit has historical information about Modigliani’s life, his style, and influences. There are center activities and suggestions for in-class projects.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 108 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

MONET’S COLOR WHEELS Materials: Product: A painted color wheel  block printing ink : red, yellow and blue French impressionist painter Claude Monet is especially  6” paper plates known for his water lily paintings done in a loose, brushy  #7 paint brush style. Students will look at some of Monet's paintings  #10 paint brush and talk about how he used color. They will practice  12" x 18" paper, white mixing colors, paint a color wheel, and try out some  9" x 9" paper, black Monet-like brush strokes.  2" x 12" paper strips, white  2" x 2" paper square, gray

MONET’S GARDENS Materials: Product: Large watercolor garden paintings  18" x 24" drawing paper, white  easel brushes, large Students will learn to use a palette and mix colors like an  paper towels artist. They will stand and paint a large garden painting  block printing ink: red, blue and using wet-on-wet technique. While it dries, they can yellow study the impressionist painter Monet, and see some of  sponges, dishes, palettes his garden paintings and photos of the places that (included) inspired them.

MONET’S UNDERWATER WORLD Materials: Product: A diorama box depicting a koi fish pond with  scissors water lilies.  glue stick  pencil Students will discover the fascinating exosystem of a lily  11” green yarn pad covered, koi fish pond.  3” x 4” copy paper Students will construct a  9” x 12” construction paper, blue pond diorama ecosystem to  2” x 12” construction paper, green include flowering water lilies as inspired by Claud Monet’s  3” x 3” construction paper, green water lily paintings, and print  Markers: red, orange, yellow, a rubber koi fish, much like green, blue, purple, and brown the Gyotaku fish printing  1” x 1” tissue paper, assorted method. colors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 109 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

MOON COLLAGES Materials: Product: A multimedia moon collage  oil pastels  watercolor paints Students will look at the moon in terms of shape, color,  brushes and texture. They will use watercolor, oil pastels, cut and  water cups torn papers, and cut-out words to build a collage.  scissors  glue  9” x 12” construction paper, black  9" x 6" construction paper: blue, purple and gray  epsom salt  “moon words” (master included) MT. MCKINLEY LANDSCAPES Materials: Product: A pastel landscape of Mt. McKinley  drawing paper  construction paper Students will learn the basics of drawing and color  pastels: orange, blue and white mixing as they create a pastel landscape of Mt.  pencils McKinley.  glue sticks MURALS OF OUR TOWNS & VILLAGES Materials: Product: A class mural of Fairbanks  paper, manila  markers, black A mural of Mexican artist Diego Rivera is studied to see  6’ roll paper, dark blue how he applies the rules of perspective to his wall  oil pastels paintings. Students will create their own mural of the  scissors Fairbanks area by drawing from photos and their own  glue memory. Note: The revised kit includes Fairbanks photos from the original kit entitled “Murals of Fairbanks and Mexico.” MY MONSTER’S PET Materials: Product: A poster of a monster's pet done in crayon-resist  4" x 11" paper, yellow or red with a short written description  11" x 11" paper, white  12" x 18" construction paper, black Students will listen to Lillian Moore's poem, “The  color crayons (fluorescents are fun) Monster's Pet”, and look at creatures on prints made at  watercolor paints Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, and at other traditional and  brushes wacky imaginary beasts. They will create posters with a  water cups drawing of their own monster's pet done in crayon-resist and write about their monster's pet name, its habits, and  white glue the sounds it likes to make.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 110 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

NEBULAS: BIRTH OF A STAR Materials: Product: A mixed media picture of a star nebula  tempera paint, red and orange  oil pastels Students will study the phenomenon of the birth of a star  12" x 18" construction paper, from a nebula and create nebula pictures with paint, oil black pastels, and imagination.

OIL PASTEL FLOWERS Materials: Product: A painting of a vase of flowers  oil pastels  wide-tip markers, black Students will examine and discuss flowers painted by  construction paper, white famous artists. They will then develop their own flowers  paper towels through a quick sketch process.  newspapers (for desk protection)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 111 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

PAINTING YOUR FEELINGS: FRANZ KLINE  Materials: Product: A large and bold mixed media abstract  liquid tempera, black expression of students’ feelings  18" x 24" paper, manila (large is best) Students will examine different ways to feel and then  oil pastels study the work of American painter Franz Kline, who  pencil often painted abstract pictures of his feelings. They will then create a bold mixed media abstract expression of their own feelings. PAPER ENGINEERING Materials Product: A symbolic version of a pop-up on the water  4” X 4” copy paper, white cycle  12” x 12” construction paper, black  9” x 9” construction paper: blue, Students will learn about paper engineering and how it violet and green transforms paper in many ways. Danish artist Peter  2” x 2” construction paper, red OR Callesen’s artwork, remarkably made from just a simple orange piece of plain white paper, is viewed. Then students will  glue sticks learn how to use a specialized cutting tool to do some paper engineering of their own. The water cycle becomes the subject of their art, as students use symmetry and pop- up techniques with their paper and the results look very cutting edge! PAPERMAKING  This appreciation kit contains a blender, screens, frames, other supplies and instructions to assist with papermaking.

PASTEL ALASKAN ANIMALS Materials: Product: A chalk drawing of an Alaskan animal  pastel chalks  12” x 18” construction paper: gray, Students will begin to recognize and discuss the tan, or black differences in the way artists’ draw, while drawing their  newspaper (one full sheet per student) own interpretation of an Alaskan animal.  paper towels PICASSO’S ANIMAL SCULPTURE Materials: Product: A 3D standing animal made of newspaper for  newspaper texture and black markers for pattern  12" x 18" construction paper, black  metallic paper pieces Students will look at playful animal sculptures that  scissors Picasso made from found objects. Students will cut out  wide-tip markers, black standing animals made from newspaper glued to  glue & glue spreaders (cardboard) construction paper for strength. Repeated patterns with black markers decorate the animals.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 112 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

PICASSO’S LINES Materials: Product: A 9" x 9" line design or large painting  construction paper, tan or gray  crayons Based on directions from an enclosed card game, students will construct a line design. Lesson can also be adapted to make a painting with black tempera lines and colored tempera spaces. PICASSO’S MUSICIANS Materials: Product: A collage of a musician playing an instrument  crayons designed in “cubist” style with a specific color scheme  construction paper (cut and organized by color scheme) Students will look at how often Picasso used musical  small pieces of newspaper instruments in his paintings and collages. The students  small pieces of music sheets will work in Picasso’s “Cubist” style to create a collage of  texture boards (included) people playing instruments. Colored papers, crayons,  scissors texture boards, music notes, and upbeat music help create  glue the lively collages. PICASSO’S PORTRAITS Materials: Product: A collage portrait  9" x 12" construction paper: gray, manila, peach and light brown Students will examine portraits by Picasso and discuss his  paper scraps or small pieces, colored interest in abstraction. They will then draw parts of a face  (about 3" x 4") from different angles and build a collage portrait.  felt markers, black  scissors  glue  oil pastels PICASSO’S STILL LIFE WITH GUITAR Materials: Product: A construction paper collage still life in Picasso's  12" x 12" construction paper, black style or gray  4-1/2" x 6" construction paper, made hundreds of drawings, sculptures, black and gray paintings, and collages that incorporated his beloved  4" x 9" construction paper, assorted guitars and mandolins. Students will talk about Picasso's light colors life and art, looking mostly at his "still life." Then,  3” x 4-1/2 ” construction paper, looking at real instruments and other objects, they will assorted dark colors create their own cut-paper collage.  scissors  glue  crayons, black and white “PIG”CASSO Materials: Product: A torn paper pig character with an oil pastel  glue stick background  oil pastels Geometric shapes are used as visual guides to tear out the  9" x 12" construction paper body parts of a pig. The personality of the pig and the  4" x 6" construction paper setting come alive as the students draw with oil pastels.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 113 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

PLOVERS: A NATURE SKETCHBOOK  Materials: Product: A sketchbook with studies of color-mixing and  sketchbooks bird drawings  colored pencils Students will learn about the Golden Plover from the book, Flight of the Golden Plover. They will practice mixing colors by layering two and three colored pencils. Then they will learn how to draw birds standing, bending, eating, and flying. POSTAGE STAMPS Materials: Product: Drawing of an original postage stamp  pencils  crayons, markers, or colored Students will learn about social and economical reasons pencils for stamps. Students will learn that artists design stamps.  duplicates of enclosed master on which to draw PRINTMAKING WITH A MESSAGE Materials: Product: Shapes will reflect a message written around the  construction paper print  cardboard or cardstock  printing ink Students will discuss the power of visual culture and the  crayons role of the artist in the world today. After exploring the  ink pens, black art of printmaking, the students will design a cardboard  old telephone books printing plate made of shapes. PUEBLO POTTERY Materials: Product: A drawing of a piece of pottery with Pueblo  crayons Indian design  scissors  glue Students will discuss the work style and its relationship  master sheet of Pueblo pots to art by looking at the style of Pueblo Indian pottery. It (included) is a good pre-lesson for making pottery.  thick-tip marking pen, dark colored PUPPETS & JIM HENSON  Materials: Product: A paper puppet with a moving mouth  construction paper, assorted colors and sizes Students will develop their own puppet characters using  scissors ideas from puppeteer Jim Henson. They will learn the  glue difference between marionettes, puppets, and Muppets.  markers, black They will create a puppet with a moveable mouth and "introduce" their puppet to others.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 114 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

QUILTING WITH FRACTIONS & SYMMETRY Materials: Product: A 15” x 15” colorful quilt square  3” x 3” construction paper square, three-color scheme (one per child) Students will learn about the history of quilt designs and  9” x 9” construction paper square, their origins using geometric terms. They will focus on three-color scheme (one per child) the nine-square patch and learn to cut squares into  3” x 15” construction paper, black equivalent fractions. They will design their own nine- (four each) square quilt pattern focusing on symmetry in both the  12” x 14” construction paper, center and the borders. black (one each)  3” x 3” construction paper, black (cut from scraps)  3” x 9” railroad board (straight- edge cut)  scissors  glue stick

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 115 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

RAVEN SCULPTURES: JOHN Materials: Product: A raven mobile  construction paper, black  metallic paper Students will look at a raven sculpture by Alaskan artist  thread, black John Hoover. They will learn about the raven itself  scissors before making their own paper raven sculpture. Contour  glue lines create the outline form while texture comes from  pencil paper notches. Balance is considered as students will turn their ravens into mobiles. RINGGOLD: I CAN FLY Materials: Product: Drawing of a flying person with texts of  6” x 12” construction paper, black student’s thoughts and ideas included in the design  5” x 9” construction paper, assorted colors Students learn about artist Faith Ringgold by looking at  1” x 6” patterned paper her work Tar Beach. Students are guided through an strips Artful Thinking routine to discuss what they see, think,  copy paper (1 per student) and wonder while viewing her quilt. Then, they create  crayons, color pencils, or their own flying person and use text to create their markers (student choice) thoughts and ideas around the theme of imagination.  glue stick  scissors RINGGOLD’S ART HISTORY Materials: Product: A collage from pieces of a famous painting  photocopied images of famous paintings Students will make a collage as they focus on the French  photocopied patterns on colorful collection quilts of Faith Ringgold, an African American paper female artist. They will draw themselves interacting with  9” x 12” construction paper, black parts of famous paintings and piece the collage together  6” x 9” paper, white in the style of Ringgold quilts.  title paper  crayons RINGGOLD’S MEMORY QUILTS Materials: Product: An individual paper story quilt with a written  2" x 4" construction paper, and drawn memory center and a pieced paper border assorted colors  10" x 14" construction paper, This lesson is designed to be taught in two sessions. The assorted colors first session explores the work of author, illustrator,  2" x 4" wallpaper strips painter, and quilt maker Faith Ringgold, looking  scissors especially at her story quilts. Students will write a  glue sentence recalling a personal memory and do an  crayons illustration that becomes the center of their own story  good writing pen, black quilt. In the second session, students will put together their quilt with a colored, pieced border.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 116 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

RINGGOLD’S RHOMBUS CITY Materials: Product: Students create artwork with tall city buildings  9” x 12” construction paper: black using a rhombus shape, and an imaginary flying person.  8” x 11” construction paper: light blue, blue, purple, magenta) Students learn a brief history of Faith Ringgold by  markers, black, fine looking at her artwork. She was raised in New York City line and much of her artwork focuses on this imagery.  oil pastel sets Students create tall city buildings using a rhombus. (students can share) Details are added as they imagine their own city. An  colored copy paper imaginary flying person is added to connect to  glue scissors Ringgold’s Tar Beach series. ROUSSEAU’S RAINFOREST  Materials: Product: A 3D rainforest with a foreground, middle  2" x 22" railroad board ground, and background drawn with oil pastels  6" x 9" construction paper, assorted greens, blues and purples A discussion of Henri Rousseau’s style and rainforest  4-1/2 " x 6" construction paper, paintings introduces the lesson. Students will use oil dark green pastels to draw and blend colors of the rainforest flora.  3" x 9" construction paper, light Pieces are cut out and glued to make a three-dimensional brown construction.  oil pastels  scissors  glue

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 117 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

SPIRALS, SHAPES, AND HOUSES Materials: Product: Oil pastel drawing and tempera painting of  12” x 18” construction paper: black spirals and parts of houses and white  2” x 3” construction paper: various Students will learn about Friedrich Hundertwasser, an colors Austrian artist, by studying his paintings and his use of  oil pastels spirals, windows, doors, domes, and the horizontal line to  tempera cakes: blue, yellow, red or pull the dream-like objects together. Students will then magenta, green, orange, and purple create a painting in his style using spirals, shapes, and  brushes houses.  water containers  scissors STARRY NIGHT: VAN GOGH Materials: Product: A construction paper and oil pastel skyscape  oil pastels  1" x 2" metallic paper, fluorescent Vincent van Gogh's famous painting is used to introduce  3" x 3" construction paper a discussion on stars, galaxies, and other celestial bodies.  12" x 18" construction paper, Students using some of van Gogh’s ideas produce black construction paper and oil pastel skyscapes.  scissors  glue

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 118 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

TILE DESIGN Materials: Product: A tile design  6" x 6" board, assorted colors  6” x 6” railroad board, assorted colors Students will view some historical uses of tiles, and then use  medium point markers, black personal taste to design their own contemporary homes.  ruler  compasses TRYING OUT TRIANGLES Materials: Product: Students write about themselves  9” x 12” construction paper: dark inside a triangle, and then use it to create a blue person-shaped collage.  8” x 11” construction paper: black  3” x 3” construction paper, Students learn about artist Faith Ringgold. squares, various colors (scraps are She explored themes of feminism in her okay) work, and students use Artful Thinking  crayons or colored pencils Routines to discuss her art. Students create a work of art  black markers, thin (pencils will using one of her signature shapes… the triangle. After work as well) writing about themselves in a triangle, students  glue stick incorporate their writing into a person-shaped collage.  scissors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 119 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

UNDERSEA GARDEN: RAY TROLL Materials: Product: A paper, low-relief sculpture of an undersea  9" x 12" paper, black garden with a colorful imaginary fish and reef plants  construction paper, assorted colors  copy paper, fluorescent Students will study work of Alaskan fish artist Ray Troll  scissors with his unique and humorous undersea perspective.  glue After looking at coral reefs and tropical fish, students create their own undersea garden in a "cut-out frame."

VAN GOGH ART APPRECIATION  This art appreciation kit introduces students to the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh. The focus is on his style and use of line and color. Appreciation activities are included.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 120 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Third Grade

WATERCOLOR DRAGON PAINTING Materials: Product: A painting of a dragon  watercolor paints  brushes Students will learn basic watercolor techniques while  18” x 24” heavy paper, white representing their version of a dragon. Some information  water cups about dragons is included.  paper towels WATERCOLOR MONOTYPE Materials: Product: An abstract watercolor print  6” x 9” construction paper, assorted colors Students will be inspired by abstract  5.5” x 6.5” drawing paper (or white color field paintings. A print is construction paper) created through a fascinating transfer  1 gallon Ziploc® bag for damp paper process as they paint an image on a Plexiglas® plate. Then, using damp 2” masking tape  paper, students will pull a “one-of-a-  Watercolor paint set with brush kind” print. Students will be amazed  Water cups (shared with partner) to see their abstract image transfer  6” paper towels (2 per student) from plastic onto paper.  pencil WATER REFLECTIONS OF CLAUDE MONET Materials: Product: An oil pastel reflection painting  oil pastels  construction paper, white and colored Students will discover that Claude Monet was the “Water  glue stick Artist.” Using mirrors, students will explore how water  mirrors (optional) changes the color and light of reflections. Then, using oil pastels, they will make a “boater’s-eye-view” landscape.

WHAT COLOR IS WINTER? Materials: Product: Winter landscapes with torn landforms, clouds,  scissors and cut trees; textured with oil pastels  glue  oil pastels The focus of this lesson is for students to look carefully  9" x 12" construction paper, at colors in winter landscapes, and at the color artists assorted colors they have chosen to use in painting their winter  12" x 18" construction paper (for landscapes. These may be quite varied and colorful. mounting)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 121 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Art Activities & Appreciation Kits

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 122 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Art Kit Order Assistance Sheet

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Advertising Collage: What’s on Your Mind? Japanese Fish Prints (2 Parts) African Wall Painting Japanese Pottery Path Aleut Basket Weaving Jelly Bean Books Amason’s 3D Animals Kandinsky I & II (2 Parts) A New Way to Travel Kandinsky’s Secret World Antlers: Observe like O’Keeffe Let's Measure 'Round Art in the Round Mobiles: Our Solar System in Balance Athletes in Motion Magic Carpets Aurora Silhouettes Masks: Making the Unseen Seen Australian Aboriginal Art: Colors from the Earth (2 Matisse Cutouts Parts) Mayan Designs Beardon Mood Collages Me in Words BEARing Messages with Alvin Amason Mission: Space Voyager Big Whopper: From Alaskan Gardens & O'Keeffe: Alaskan Landscapes Farms O’Keeffe: Bones (2 Parts) Bird Drawing with Bill Berry O'Keeffe: Painter Bird Friends of Creamer’s Field Olanna’s Arctic Animal Prints Bird Sculptures with Janlee Irving Olanna’s Paper Sculptures Butterfly Paper Sculpture/Symmetry Plant Drawing Buzzing Around Alaska Portraits with Texture & Mood (2 Parts) Cakes with Thiebaud: Painter Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Calder Contour Wire Portraits Review the Art Elements: Still Life (2 Parts) Complementary Color Designs Romare Bearden: Mood Collages Computer Bugs Ron Senungetuk (3 Lessons) Deep Space Ron Senungetuk’s Sunscapes Denali Landscape Prints Salmon Summer in Kodiak Exploring Perspective (unit) Senungetuk’s Repeated Shapes Fairbanks Centennial Bridge Shells in Oil Pastel Fractured Time (2 Parts) Snowflakes: Radial Symmetry Hanging Patterned Sculptures (2 Parts) Solar Sculpture Hokusai: Blooms, Birds, and Bugs Spirit Masks Hokusai Insects: Japanese Prints Statue of Liberty (2 Parts) Hokusai: Two Views Stomp to the Music Hokusai’s Manga: Animal Drawings Storyknifing Our Symbols Hokusai’s Waterfall Wonder Tolerance Banners Illuminated Nonsense Value of Insects, The Insect Sculptures (2 Parts)

— Art Appreciation Kits — — Art Trunks & Birds —

Nebulas: Birth of a Star (K-3) Alaska Native Art: Birds: Andy Goldsworthy: Art from the Earth (4-6) Calligraphy (4-6) Painting Your Feelings: Franz Kline (K-3) - Athabascan (K-3) Cartooning in Stages (4-6) Papermaking (K-6) - Aleut (4) Discovering Color with Sam Francis (K-3) Plovers: A Nature Sketchbook (3-5) - Yup’ik Eskimo (5-6) Escher (4-6) Puppets & Jim Henson (3-6) - General Studies (K-6) Please contact the Art Center for Flowers & Radial Design (3-6) Van Gogh (2-6) availability Modigliani (2-6) Watercolor Workshop: Wet-On-Wet (4-6) Mt. McKinley Landscapes (2-6)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 123 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Fourth Grade

ADVERTISING COLLAGE: WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND? Materials: Product: Artwork that is focused around an issue • 9” X 12” construction paper, black important to students using visual culture and created • 6” x 9” construction paper, white images • paper scraps, assorted colors • glue Students will look at a variety of public service ads and • scissors artworks with ideas and messages. • staplers

AFRICAN WALL PAINTING Materials: Product: A narrative wall painting using earth colors,  18" x 24" drawing paper , and cut-out black silhouettes  12" x 18" construction paper, black Students will create a dramatic painting using the painted  tempera paint, black and brown houses in Burkina Faso as inspiration. They will create  glue their own painted wall, which tells a story. Students will  scissors cut silhouettes for the main characters, and then use black and brown tempera paint to create the lines and symbols to finish the story. This lesson also includes basic drawing technique.

ALEUT BASKET WEAVING Materials: Product: A paper weaving with painted pattern  2” wide construction paper strips, neutral colors Students are introduced to Aleut basketry and will see  tempera paint cakes: black, white, how this art reflects the culture that produces it. Using a primary and secondary colors simple basket weave, they make a woven paper mat.  9" x 12" construction paper, After studying basket medallion decoration, they will assorted colors decorate the surface of the weave with a multi-layer  masking tape painted pattern of medallions. These weavings are then  water cups mounted on a colored background for display.  paper towels

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 124 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

AMASON’S 3D ANIMALS Materials: Product: 3D watercolor portrait of an animal or bird  white glue mix (3/4 cup glue + ¼ indigenous to Kodiak cup water)  paper plates or bowls for mixing Students learn about the Aleut artist Alvin Amason. He glue and toilet paper together grew up in Kodiak and was influenced by the land,  toilet paper 4 ft. per student (thin, water, and animals of the region. Students will create a school type TP is best) 3D watercolor portrait of an animal or bird indigenous to  6” x 8” construction paper: black Kodiak. Using a paper and glue sculpting materials, the  5” x 7” water color paper animals’ features become 3D.  watercolor paints  water cups  paintbrushes  glue stick

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: ART FROM THE EARTH  Materials: Product: Art that is created from nature and recorded by  camera, digital or Polaroid a photo and writing  journals or journal page  pencil Students will study Andy Goldsworthy, a British artist  tape who transforms nature into art, photographs it, and lets it  natural outdoor area, any season return to nature. They will go outside to create art from only nature. Photos and notes are then entered in a journal. (Works well at Twin Bears and similar areas.) A NEW WAY TO TRAVEL Materials: Product: A drawing of an "invented" form of  12” x 18” paper, white transportation made by combining bits and parts of cars,  water-based marking pens, trains, bikes, etc. assorted colors  water-based marking pens, thick Students are provided with visual options and choices as black they design a new vehicle.  water-based marking pens, thin black  scissors  glue ANTLERS: OBSERVE LIKE O’KEEFFE Materials: Product: Drawings of antlers.  Construction paper, white & black  Glue sticks Students practice their observational drawing skills by  Pencil (for signing only) studying antlers/horns in a still-life format. They learn  Water cups the biological difference between antlers and horns, and (one per see them featured in some of Georgia O’Keeffe’s every two paintings. Students then use color theory with watercolor students) pencil drawings, and transform them into painted sketches.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 125 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

ART IN THE ROUND Materials: Product: A circular, patterned oil pastel design  oil pastels  construction paper: black, white Students are introduced to the ancient round art forms of and gray the Celtic, North American Indian, and Tibetan cultures. Working in a circular format with geometric shapes and patterns, they will create a round oil pastel design. ATHLETES IN MOTION Materials: Product: A cut-paper and stamped collage using prepared  6” x 10” construction paper, black papers  glue  scissors Students will learn about the Arctic Winter Games and create an artwork that depicts one of the competitive indoor sports. Students will focus on what a body looks like when playing their chosen sport and use pre-cut flexible shapes to create the various body positions through a stamping technique. AURORA SILHOUETTES Materials: Product: A cut-paper and oil pastel collage  oil pastels  construction paper, assorted colors Students will learn what causes the Aurora Borealis:  glue Earth’s magnetic field and the Sun combine to create  scissors these amazing lights seen at both the North and South Poles. Students will also learn about the local aurora photographer, LeRoy Zimmerman. They will look at auroras and imagine them as figures dancing above the Earth. After creating prepared paper using oil pastels, students will design a figure just like the Aurora Borealis. AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART: COLORS FROM THE EARTH (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A drawing of desert reptiles using a pencil and  construction paper: black, tan, traditional chalk colors to create designs and patterns in gray and brown the Australian Aboriginal style  chalk, charcoal and earth-tones  glue A reptile is drawn and patterned using pencil and chalk;  scissors cut-out and framed. Symbols from Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime stories are hidden in contour dots using Earth-tone colors in the chalk and construction paper.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 126 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

BEARDON MOOD COLLAGES Materials: Product: A collage portrait that expresses a mood  9" x 12" and 12” x 18” construction paper, assorted colors Students are introduced to the African American heritage  glue or glue sticks of artist Romare Beardon and his work. Using his  wallpaper samples, assortment example, they will explore the use of facial expression,  scissors color, shape, and texture. They will then compose a  pencils collage portrait that expresses a mood.  photocopied faces (masters included) BEARING MESSAGES WITH ALVIN AMASON Materials: Product: A drawing of a painted bear in the style of Alvin  9" x 9" square paper, white Amason. The bear’s head is a cut-out, a message is  11” x 7” rectangle paper, white written on the bottom, and 3-D appendages are added  paper scraps, white  pencil Students will look at Oscar Scared Him with His Icon, a  scissors whimsical painting of a bear by Alvin Amason. They will  white glue learn the story behind the title, and then create their own  crayon or China marker, black painted bear with words and three-dimensional additions, in Alvin’s style.  watercolor set  brush  water cup   phone wire, 10" length BIG WHOPPERS: FROM ALASKAN GARDENS & FARMS Materials: (One per student) Product: A watercolor painting of a large Alaskan  6" x 9" practice papers, manila vegetable/plant that becomes a cartoon-style drawing AND white  7-1/2" x 10-1/2" paper, manila OR Students learn about Summer Solstice and the meaning white (student's choice) of the term, "land of the Midnight Sun." They observe  9" x 12" construction paper, black that in the Circumpolar North, the tilt of the earth in (for mounting art) relation to the sun contributes to the growth of big  watercolor box whopper farm/garden plants. Students use the Sumi-e  paint brush, #7 style paint an Alaskan whopper garden plant in one  water, small color, then use a black marker to turn their whopper container garden plant into a whopper story that further emphasizes  fine tip marker, how large the plant is. black

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 127 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

BIRD DRAWING WITH BILL BERRY Materials: Product: Several quick sketches and one detailed sketch  pencils, large, no erasers (Big- Dipper™ red for beginners work Students will participate in a sketching session using life- best) mounted birds as models.  copier paper or newsprint BIRD FRIENDS OF CREAMERS FIELD Materials: Product: Bird mobiles using prepared paper  newsprint paper (as a work mat)  5” x 8” watercolor paper Students will create bird mobiles after creating prepared  1-1/2” x 3” watercolor paper watercolor paper. Alaskan artist Rie Munoz will  copier paper (for sketching) influence the way the students will draw and detail their  scissors artwork. The mobiles will be given to the Friends of  pen, black Creamer’s Field as a community service project and as a  paintbrushes gesture of appreciation.  watercolor paints: blue, red, brown, and black  salt  ornament hangers or paper clips  liquid glue  bird drawing sample (one included)  bird template (for drawing- included) Creamer’s Field address (P.O. Box 81065, Fairbanks, AK, 99708) BIRD SCULPTURES WITH JANLEE IRVING Materials: Product: A 3-D bird sculpture made from aluminum foil  plaster gauze strips armature and plaster gauze strips  scissors Students will learn about Fairbanks artist, Janlee  watercolor paints Irving. They will then construct an aluminum foil  1/2” wide masking tape armature of a bird and coat the armature with plaster  newspaper gauze. The birds are then painted with watercolor paints  paper towels to resemble local Fairbanks birds. BUTTERFLY PAPER SCULPTURE/SYMMETRY Materials: Product: A mounted paper-sculpture butterfly with  Construction Paper, assorted colors: symmetrical patterning, oil pastel, and cut-paper details o 6” x 9” (for wings- four per student) Students will learn about French designer E.A. Seguy,  3” x 9” (for body-one per student) who used butterflies for inspiration in fabric and  2” x 12” (for legs-three per student) wallpaper design. They will study symmetry and then,  construction paper scraps, small using paper, create their own butterfly. (for patterns-three per student)  oil pastels  scissors  glue

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 128 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

BUZZING AROUND ALASKA Materials: Product: A display of insect prints along with the printing  6” x 4” cardboard, recycled plate and original drawing  8-1/2” x 5-1/2” construction paper assorted colors Students will draw the basic structural components of an  11” x 14” construction paper, Alaskan insect to make a foam and cardboard printing black plate. They will then create prints using black paint and  5-1/2” x 4-1/4” copier paper, white construction paper. It is presented showing all four steps  washable paint, black of the printing process.  4-1/2” x 6” peel and stick foam  brayers  laminate scraps, recycled  phonebook pages, recycled  pencils  mechanical pencil tips (for texturing)  masking tape

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 129 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

CAKES WITH THIEBAULD: PAINTER Materials: Product: Painted Pop-Art cakes on cut-paper stands  tempera paint cakes: red, orange, green, blue, yellow, purple and Students will learn about the many careers of one artist, white (students choose one color Wayne Thiebaud. He was a cartoonist, scene designer, and white) sign painter, graphic artist, teacher and painter! He is most  1/2” easel brushes famous for his Pop-Art painting of pies and cakes.  12” x 18” construction paper, Students will paint their own Pop-Art cakes, learning black about light sources and values.  9” x 12” construction paper, gray  9” x 12” construction paper, white  scissors  glue

CALDER CONTOUR WIRE PORTRAITS Materials: Product: A contour wire portrait in the style of Alexander  9" x 12" construction paper, Calder assorted colors  6" x 9" construction paper, white Students will learn about Alexander Calder as a person or black and an artist. They will practice contour line drawing and  thin wire, plastic-covered look at examples of Calder’s sculptures. Students will  paper scraps, torn form a self-portrait out of flexible wire and mount it on  scissors construction paper.  masking tape  white glue

CALLIGRAPHY  This appreciation kit includes examples in a variety of calligraphy styles, background information, a set of calligraphy pens, and practice sheets to copy for student use.

CARTOONING IN STAGES  Materials: Product: A cartoon character  pencils  ink pens, black Students will learn about cartooning, and then will  copier paper develop their own character(s) to make a comic strip.  12" x 18" construction paper Extra activities included.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 130 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

COMPLEMENTARY COLOR DESIGNS Materials: Product: A dazzling 2-D designs using only a pair of  construction paper, assorted colors complementary colors  scissors  glue After exploring the unique relationship of complementary colors, including their positions on the color wheel and the phenomenon of after-image, students will explore the interplay of these colors by creating a cut-paper design using only one pair of complementary colors. COMPUTER BUGS Materials: Product: Cut-paper insect collage using prepared paper  6” x 9” construction paper, white  5-1/2” x 8-1/2” constructions Students will learn about the history of the microchip and paper, black the applications of how it is used in scientific research.  glue Students create a cut-paper insect from insect silhouettes  scissors using prepared paper that contain enlarged images from microchips. Students’ insects will include a small microchip which contains artwork.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 131 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

DEEP SPACE Materials: Product: A paper collage showing planets in space  oil pastels  glue Students will look at the art of abstract artist Wassily  12” x 12” construction paper, Kandinsky, especially his paintings Several Circles, black #323. By learning how to create deep space with the  construction paper, assorted colors shading of circles, students will learn how to create their and sizes own imaginary solar systems. DENALI LANDSCAPE PRINTS Materials: Product: Four Denali landscape color prints, including  index cards the mountain Denali (also known as Mt. McKinley)  construction paper  printmaking ink Students will study a painting by Alaskan artist Byron  brayer Birdsall and other artists’ paintings of mountains. Then  plate they will cut and print their own plate.  newspaper

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 132 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

ESCHER  In this appreciation kit, students will learn about M.C. Escher, an architect and illusionist who used mathematical structures in his art. Students will explore the concept of tessellations and symmetry. Activities for center and groups included. EXPLORING PERSPECTIVE (UNIT) Materials: Product: Lesson 1 (Near and Far): Lesson 1: Exaggerated “near and far” drawing with  copied cartoon drawing page cartoonist Chad Carpenter  markers, chisel-tip, black Lesson 2: Train track drawing featuring the horizon and  pencils vanishing point  construction paper Lesson 3: Peter Max style landscape featuring all unit  glue perspective techniques with the addition of atmospheric  scissors perspective  lesson extension reproducible and visuals (included in kit) Students learn how artists create the illusion of deep, 3D space using the rules of perspective.

Lesson 2 (Vanishing Point): Lesson 1 (Near and Far):  copied practice drawing sheet and This features Alaskan cartoon artist Chad Cooper with an final drawing sheet exaggerated use of perspective.

 ruler, straight edge  pencil Lesson 2 (Vanishing Point):  crayons This is more technical as students learn how to “trick the  lesson extension reproducible and eye” through use of a vanishing point. visuals (included in kit) Lesson 3 (Atmospheric): Lesson 3 (Atmospheric) This uses knowledge from the previous lessons, plus the  construction paper effects of Earth’s atmosphere on distant objects. In this  markers, chisel-tip, black lesson pop artist Peter Max inspires students to  glue experiment with color.  scissors  crayons  lesson extension reproducible and visuals (included in kit)  various shape templates and white crayons (included in kit)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 133 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

FAIRBANKS CENTENNIAL BRIDGE Materials Product: An abstract bridge design using 100 pieces of  1/2“ x 12” construction paper paper strips, assorted colors  6” x 18” construction paper, black Students will learn about the Centennial Bridge from the  scissors earliest stages to completion and dedication. Alaska  glue Native artist, Ron Senungetuk, was commissioned to incorporate artwork into this landmark. Students will use his artistic style to create an abstract work of art using 100 pieces of paper with the theme of bridges. FLOWERS & RADIAL DESIGN  Materials: Product: A radial design of a drawing/painting  oil pastels  brushes Students will look at the many things around them, both  pencils natural and man-made, that have radial design. They will  rulers take a closer look at the radial design in flowers. Just like  scissors the flowers, they begin with a center shape and let the  9" x 12" construction paper, white flower grow as their ideas grow. They will finish with oil  paper towels pastels, watercolor, and contour cutting. FRACTURED TIME (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A dramatic paper and foil design based on the  8" x 8" construction paper, black parts and symbols of a clock  9" x 9" construction paper, white  glue Students will learn a technique called repoussé in this lesson. They create a design using positive and negative space, texture, line, and shape. The inspiration comes from looking at the insides of a clock. Supplies are basic, but the product is quite dramatic. Students will also look at a recent local art installation by artists Keith Appel and Harold Balazs, and use their design concepts in this lesson.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 134 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

HANGING PATTERNED SCULPTURES (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A stuffed, decorated, hanging paper sculpture  banner paper, white  water-based markers, colored Students are introduced to Fairbanks sculptor Karen  pipe cleaners Lowell. They will explore the variety of forms and  hole punch patterns she uses in her work. Finally, a class sculpture is  glue made of large stuffed paper forms decorated with patterns. HOKUSAI: BLOOMS, BIRDS, AND BUGS Materials: Product: A layered collage of cut-paper  9”x 12” manila sketching paper botanical shapes and a bird or bug drawing.  12” x 18” construction paper: black, medium blue, dark blue, In this art lesson, students create stunning, pink, peach nature-inspired designs based on the Ukiyo-e  9” x 12” construction paper: light prints and paintings of Katsushika Hokusai. green, medium green Positive and negative space are considered as a botanical  Scissors collage is assembled. A bird or bug drawing enhances the  Glue sticks design by adding movement and interest to the composition.  Pencils  Markers, thin-line felt-tip  Crayons HOKUSAI INSECTS: JAPANESE PRINTS Materials: Product: Mounted insect prints done with a paper  8" x 8" paper, white printing plate  3" x 9" construction paper, any color Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese printmaker, was best  scissors known for his Great Wave of Kanagawa print series.  glue Hokusai lived a long, very productive life and influenced  Q-tip™ many later European painters, especially the French  printmaking ink, black impressionists. Students will create an insect motif print  printmaking rollers/brayers (at in a method used by Japanese school children. least two) HOKUSAI: TWO VIEWS Materials: Product: An accordion-type 3-D art using paint and  construction paper, black crayons  tempera paint, black  crayons Students will learn about the life of Japanese painter and  glue printmaker Katsushika Hokusai from the Edo period, most famous for his 36 views of Mt. Fuji series. Students will then create their own views of Mt. Fuji using an optical illusion technique with crayons, focusing on value and color blending.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 135 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

HOKUSAI’S MANGA: ANIMAL DRAWINGS Materials: Product: An animal drawing with a simple color scheme,  Manila paper embellished with Japanese-patterned, paper shapes.  red construction paper Students learn about and explore Hokusai’s Manga, a multi-  pencils volume, comprehensive, artist reference guide created over 200  black fine felt-tip marker years ago. Hokusai illustrates how he drew animals by breaking  crayons them into simple shapes and lines. Students sketch and practice  scissors a few of these animals. Then they choose one for a drawing that is lined with markers and filled in with a simple color scheme.  glue sticks Finally, the drawing is embellished with repeated shapes cut from Japanese-patterned paper. HOKUSAI’S WATERFALL WONDER Materials: Product: A layered waterfall collage made  9”x 12” construction paper: white, from painted papers. black, tan, light green, gray  water cups per group or individual Students learn about the artist Hokusai by  paper towels viewing artwork from his waterfall series. (paints and brushes provided in kit) While painting prepared papers and assembling a waterfall collage, students consider their role and choices as an artist.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 136 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

ILLUMINATED NONSENSE Materials: Product: Individual book pages to be mounted on 12" x  11" x 17" drawing paper, white 18" colored paper or class big book of laminated book  crayons (fluorescents are fun!) pages  watercolor paints  brushes Illuminated manuscript pages from The Book of Kells,  water cups written in the Middle Ages, are the inspiration for  scrap paper creating book pages with fanciful large first letters.  pencil Letters are done in crayon-resists. Students will write a nonsense sentence using the included word lists to illuminate. INSECT SCULPTURES (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A “kinetic” flying insect sculpture  plastic overhead projector sheets (half sheet per student) Students will study the basic parts of a flying insect  pencil before creating their own insect sculpture out of plastic,  scissors wire, and clay. Concepts learned will include symmetry  modeling dough (1" ball per and design. The artist focus for this lesson is American student) sculptor Alexander Calder, who is famous for his kinetic  copier paper, white sculptures.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 137 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

JAPANESE FISH PRINTS (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A Japanese wall hanging of a printed salmon  watercolor paints (Gyotaku) with stamped patterns and a watercolor wash  glue  hole punch Students will learn about the 18th century printmaker  salmon printing supplies Katsushika Hokusai. They will then make a print from a (included) salmon, paint a watercolor wash on the print, and create a stamped pattern on the end of the papers. Project is completed with a string for creating a wall hanging in traditional Japanese style. JAPANESE POTTERY PATH Materials: Product: A round “pottery” plate constructed from paper  9” x 11” construction paper, white using resist-techniques, layering, and watercolors  12” x 12” construction paper, assorted colors Students will view a presentation of visual images from  tissue paper scraps an art installation in Yamagata, Japan. This information  glue, white includes some history on the six ancient kilns of Japan.  watercolor paints Students will then create their own “pottery” plate using  scissors pattern, color, and resist-techniques.  overhead projector JELLY BEAN BOOKS Materials: Product: A color poem using the five senses and a small  4” x 9-1/2“ construction paper, “jelly bean” book in which to write original poems white  4-1/2” x 2” Astrobright® paper Students will become inspired to write color poems after  12” piece of yarn listening to poems from Hailstones & Halibut Bones by  crepe paper, assorted colors Mary O’Neill. They will learn how to make a “jelly  scissors bean” book to publish their color poems.  glue  pens, black

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 138 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

KANDINSKY I & II (2 PARTS) Part I Product: Materials: Part I: Product: An improvisational, nonobjective  construction paper, black and painting done in the manner of Wassily Kandinsky white  tempera cakes Part II: A secret world of fantasy forms and creations  sponges, small composed and mounted on a colored construction paper  crayons, black background

Part II Part I: Students will look at paintings by the 20th Materials: century artist Wassily Kandinsky, focusing on his  8" x 11" paper, white Improvisation series. Using similar kinds of lines,  9" x 12" paper, colored (for shapes, and colors students create their own mounting) "improvisational art."  Magic Markers™, assorted colors Part II: Students will look at the paintings by the 20th  scissors Century artist Wassily Kandinsky, focusing on the last  glue period of his life, his Pan's period. This last body of Kandinsky's work is made up of fanciful imaginary forms and creatures, very detailed and very colorful. Using similar forms, colors, and lines, students create their own "secret worlds." KANDINSKY’S SECRET WORLD Materials: Product: Collage of abstract artwork  Construction paper: white & black  Copy paper: red, yellow, blue, Students explore shape and color as they learn about green, purple, and orange (any abstract artist and art professor Wassily Kandinsky. They shade) create cut paper, marker, and crayon  Fine black felt-tip markers collages while they experience making  Markers & crayons, variety of colors many choices as an artist. After viewing  Glue sticks and creating abstract art, students  scissors understand that each viewer may see their own secret world within abstract artwork.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 139 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

LANGUAGE OF BIRCH BARK Materials: Product: A “birch bark” book textured with cut paper  pencils artwork  scissors  glue sticks Students create a “birch bark” nature book by learning  two-hole punchers how to make birch bark rubbings to create textured  rubber bands covers. They will learn how to make bindings, and  9” x 12” construction paper: light create cut paper artwork similar to North American brown, dark brown and brown native patterns and designs. They will use their nature  9” x 12” newsprint books to record their newly learned vocabulary about the  felt-tip markers, black birch tree.  crayons: brown, black, apricot and white  birch twigs or skewers LET’S MEASURE ‘ROUND Materials: Product: A symmetrical or asymmetrical circular drawing  7" squared construction paper, black done with colored pencil  5" squared construction paper, white and assorted colors Students view art by Robert and Sonia Delaunay to see how  6" squared construction paper, white these artists use geometric shapes and bright colors in their and assorted artwork. Students learn how to draw straight lines using a colors 'straight edge' tool, review how to find fractions of an inch on  glue stick a ruler, and draw circles with a compass. Circles are arranged  pencil in a concentric pattern and a design is created with bright colored pencil.  scissors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 140 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

MAGIC CARPETS Materials: Product: A cut-paper Persian carpet  Construction paper, assorted colors: o 2” x 9” Students will take a ride on a magic carpet and learn o 7” x 10” about the origins of the Persian rug. They will cut a o 9” x 12” design from paper and create their own magic carpet.  6” x 9” construction paper, white  6” x 8-1/2” copier paper, bright colors  glue  scissors  oil pastels MASKS: MAKING THE UNSEEN SEEN Materials: Product: Miniature masks are created from modeling  Super Dough™ modeling clay dough with wire, feathers, and found objects  construction paper, black Students will learn about and look at masks from Alaska  glue Native cultures. They will then learn how to mix neutral  scissors colors from the primary colors using modeling dough. After creating three neutral colors, students will create a miniature mask, embellished with wire, feathers, beads, and found objects. MATISSE CUTOUTS Materials Product: A cut-paper design  9" x 12" construction paper: red, blue, yellow, violet, green, purple Students will study Matisse's cut-paper art and his later and black life.  9" x 6" construction paper: red, blue, yellow, violet, green, purple and black  scissors  glue MAYAN DESIGNS! Materials: Product: Mayan textile patterns and design on a 9” x 9”  glue construction paper  scissors  rulers Inspired by Abuela’s Weave by Omar S. Casteneda,  pencils students will use colored markers and grid paper to make  chalk pastels and cut out Mayan textile patterns to complement ancient  markers, bright bold colors mythological designs drawn with chalk on construction  9” x 9” construction paper, orange paper. and blue  1” x 9” construction paper, black

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 141 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

ME IN WORDS Materials: Product: A sculptural book using newspaper to create  6” x 18” construction paper, white self-portraits  3” x 4-1/2” construction paper, complementary colors Students will create sculptural books that have an  scissors accordion spine. This fan-like fold allows the  glue sticks complementary pages to crisscross. The pages leave room  pencils for students to display non-fiction information about themselves in a sequence of events. The book covers are self-portraits made from colorful newspaper pieces. MISSION: SPACE VOYAGER Materials: Product: A 3D sculpture of an imaginary space  9” x 12” construction paper, black exploration vehicle  glue stick  scissors Students will learn about NASA space missions and embark on an integrated lesson that involves designing, building, and displaying a small sculpture that represents an imaginary space exploration vehicle. This lesson models the STEAM approach to an integrated art lesson. MOBILES: OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IN BALANCE Materials: Product: Mobile featuring three-dimensional forms that  #1 size paper clips, 5 boxes of 100 relate to planets in our solar system  12” pipe cleaners: 200 (2 packs of 100) Students will create a mobile sculpture. After developing  8” plastic jumbo drinking straws: their mobile’s structure, students read non-fiction 200 (1/2 box of 400 from A&W descriptions of planets in our solar system, and then create Wholesale) three-dimensional forms from paper that relate to their  2’ piece of string per student understanding of the planets’ attributes. They attach their  Glue-all® or white glue, 14 (one planetary forms to their mobile in their solar order, while between two) simultaneously making constant adjustments to the many  glue stick, one each fulcrum points to help their sculpture balance and move.  scissors  paper strips/scraps, variety of colors (just tons!) MODIGLIANI ART APPRECIATION  This appreciation kit has historical information about Modigliani’s life, his style, and influences. There are center activities and suggestions for in-class projects.

MT. MCKINLEY LANDSCAPES Materials: Product: A pastel landscape of Mt. McKinley  drawing paper  construction paper Students will learn the basics of drawing and color mixing  pastels: orange, blue and white as they create a pastel landscape of Mt. McKinley.  pencils  glue sticks

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 142 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

O’KEEFFE: ALASKAN LANDSCAPES Materials: Product: A mounted oil pastel landscape inspired by  12" x 15" white paper photos of Alaska  construction paper strips, assorted colors Georgia O’Keeffe had a very interesting life and a unique  oil pastels and personal style. She is known for painting very large  scissors close-ups of flowers and for colored landscapes of New  glue Mexico. Students will study her life and landscape work and paint their own landscape in oil pastels. Inspiration will come from photographs of Alaskan hills and mountains. O’KEEFFE: BONES (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A “bone” painting using values and intensities  construction paper, white and of a pair of complementary colors black  glue Students will study Georgia O’Keeffe’s reproductions,  tempera paint cakes noting her use of color and subject matter. Since she often used bones as a theme, students will explore value and intensity relationships (using complementary colors and white) to paint their bone designs. O’KEEFFE: PAINTER Materials: Product: A large painting of a butterfly  water  brushes Students will look at Georgia O'Keeffe's painting and  poster paints create a close-up view of a butterfly in the style of her  paper towels close-up views of flowers.  18" x 24" paper, white OLANNA’S ARCTIC ANIMAL PRINTS Materials: Product: A mounted print of an arctic animal on colored  printmaking ink, black paper with printing plate attached  9" x 12" paper, black  copier paper, assorted colors (for Melvin Olanna was an Inupiaq carver from Shishmaref, printing) Alaska. His bronze Nanook sculpture can be seen in front  glue of Patty Gym at UAF. He is well known all over the  scissors Pacific Northwest, mostly for his sculpture, but also for  pencil OR ball point pen woodcut prints of the arctic animals he lived around.  copies of shapes (master included) Students will make a print based on a legend from the Shishmaref area.  Styrofoam™ plate, small

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 143 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

OLANNA’S PAPER SCULPTURES Materials: Product: A 3D paper animal sculpture mounted on a  construction paper, white and background representing the animal’s habitat assorted colors  glue Students will learn about the life of Melvin Olanna, an  scissors Alaskan Native artist best known for his carvings and  hole punch sculptures. After looking at silhouettes of Arctic animals,  oil pastels or crayons students will draw or trace the animals on white construction paper and cut out the drawings. They will then “score” the animal shape to create a three- dimensional effect. Details are kept to a minimum to best represent the simplistic art of Olanna. Animals are then mounted on a background of colored construction paper working with positive and negative shapes, landforms, and habitat. ONE CUP CUPCAKES Materials: Product: A 3D cupcake sculpture  paper drinking cups  masking tape or scotch tape Students will glean ideas from Wayne Thiebaud and  4” x 5-1/2” railroad board Claes Oldenberg as artists who transformed food into  corrugated bulletin board edges fine art. Students will express their creativity through  tissue paper, assorted colors building 3D cupcakes to use as their blank canvas for  pencils decoration.  liquid glue  scissors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 144 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

PAPERMAKING  This appreciation kit contains a blender, screens, frames, other supplies and instructions to assist with papermaking.

PLANT DRAWING Materials: Product: An oval framed, ink-line drawing of a plant  thin-tip markers  9" x 12" drawing paper, white Students will closely observe and draw real plants  9" x 12" construction paper, black enclosed in this kit. PLOVERS: A NATURE SKETCHBOOK  Materials: Product: A sketchbook with studies of color-mixing and  sketchbooks bird drawings  colored pencils Students will learn about the Golden Plover from the book, Flight of the Golden Plover. They will practice mixing colors by layering two and three colored pencils. Then they will learn how to draw birds standing, bending, eating, and flying. PORTRAITS WITH TEXTURE & MOOD (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: Expressive and colorful portrait  liquid tempera paint: red, blue, yellow, magenta and white Students will experience painting a portrait using thick  6” x 9” construction paper paint and a palette knife, keeping in mind mood and  7” x 10” poster board emotion while they work. The portraits are then  masking tape compared to other artist’s portraits with various moods.  glue Students will have an opportunity to discuss the similarities and differences.

PUPPETS & JIM HENSON  Materials: Product: A paper puppet with a moving mouth  construction paper, assorted colors and sizes Students will develop their own puppet characters using  scissors ideas from puppeteer Jim Henson. They will learn the  glue difference between marionettes, puppets, and Muppets.  markers, black They will create a puppet with a moveable mouth and "introduce" their puppet to others.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 145 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

QUASICRYSTALS Materials: Product: A matted 2-D cut paper math pattern block  glue design  die-cut shapes; wide and narrow rhombuses, square Students will learn that Dan Schechtman is the 2011  10” x 10” construction paper, red Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for discovering  12” x 12” construction paper, quasicrystals. Their artwork will reflect the structures of black crystals that have non-repeating patterns. They will use paper math pattern blocks to show movement, a circular structure, and three boxes to make their 2D work look 3D.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 146 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

RACHEL CARSON’S SILENT SPRING Materials: Product: A watercolor and color theory of plant paintings  watercolor paper showing the effect of pollution and pesticides on living  watercolors organisms  pen, black  masking tape Students will learn about Rachel Carson, author,  salt biologist, and ecologist. Her book Silent Spring brought  construction paper, black about the banning of D.D.T. REVIEW THE ART ELEMENTS: STILL LIFE (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A colorful still life done in markers  11" x 17" heavy paper, white  markers, black and assorted colors After a discussion of the art elements: B line, shape,  12" x 18" construction paper, color, and texture, and how the French artist Henri colored Matisse used them to create his exciting still life  glue (for mounting) paintings, students will do their own still life looking at the fruits, flowers, teapot, and fabrics in the kit. ROMARE BEARDEN: MOOD COLLAGES Materials: Product: Students will compose a collage that expresses a  9” x 12” and 12” x 18” construction mood. paper, assorted colors Students are introduced to African  Glue sticks American artist Romare Bearden and his  Scissors work. Using his example of artwork,  Photo-copied design paper (one per students explore the use of facial student) expression, color, shape, and texture when  Photo-copied faces (three per composing a collage that expresses a student) mood.

RON SENUNGETUK (3 LESSONS) Materials: Product: Lesson 1 – Cropped-paper college of Alaskan Lesson 1 (Interpretive Shapes): animals.  7” x 10” construction paper: gray, Lesson 2 – Drawing of Alaskan animals migration. dark brown, tan, and white Lesson 3 – Artwork with concentric-circle design and  12” x 9” construction paper: black implied texture. and brown Lesson 1 (Interpretive Shapes):  Glue sticks Students will be introduced to the work of artist Ron  Scissors Senungetuk, a nationally recognized sculptor, metalsmith,  Sharpie markers, and carver from Wales, Alaska. Students will use simple black (and brown if available) cropping tools to recompose photographs of Alaskan Lesson 2 (Migration Interpretation): animals. Ultimately, they will develop a cut-paper collage based on their cropped image explorations.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 147 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

 4.5” x 6” and 4” x 5.5” construction Lesson 2 (Migration Interpretation): paper: gray and Using a series of Ron Senungetuk’s carved wooden panels black (titled Migration) as inspiration, students will go on to  Glue sticks design their own panel. As reference material, they will  Colored pencils use scientific migration maps of Alaskan animals to re-  Metallic markers (if interpret and design a mini-panel. Through this process, possible) students will begin to appreciate how artists can respond  Pencils to science, and how art can be used as a vehicle to make Lesson 3 (Concentric Circles): science more accessible to a broader audience.

 Construction paper: Lesson 3 (Concentric Circles): o 4” x 11.5” white paper Students will look at Ron Senungetuk’s carved panels, mounted on 4.5” x 12” black evaluate how he uses his concentric-circle motif, and paper (making a frame) evaluate his use of complementary and monochromatic o 4.5” x 4.5”, any color colors. Through the systematic use of a reduced stencil, o 0.25” x 4.5” black strips students will develop their own concentric-circle design, Continued on the next page… develop an implied texture (crayon resist), and experiment  Crayons: black and white with a color palette.  Pencils  Watercolors  Brushes  Water cups  Scissors  Xeroxes of check sheets

RON SENUNGETUK’S SUNSCAPES Materials: Product: A 2D wood-like textured triptych  9” x 12” construction paper, black and brown Students learn about an Inupiat contemporary artist Ron  1” x 9” construction paper, black Senungetuk. His artwork is based upon Old Bering Sea and brown ivory carvings that tell stories of life experiences of his  glue sticks ancestors. Students create wood textured triptychs  pencils showing their drawings of “Swiss Cheese” Arctic  markers, black animals, concentric circles, and horizon lines using crayons and markers.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 148 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

ROUSSEAU’S RAINFOREST  Materials: Product: A 3D rainforest with a foreground, middle  2" x 22" railroad board ground, and background drawn with oil pastels  6" x 9" construction paper, assorted greens, blues and purples A discussion of Henri Rousseau’s style and rainforest  4-1/2 " x 6" construction paper, paintings introduces the lesson. Students will use oil dark green pastels to draw and blend colors of the rainforest flora.  3" x 9" construction paper, light Pieces are cut out and glued to make a three-dimensional brown construction.  oil pastels  scissors  glue

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 149 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

SALMON SUMMER IN KODIAK Materials: Product: A salmon with drawn and colored design  6” x 9” construction paper, white mounted on a watercolor wash background  7” x 10” construction paper, assorted colors Students will listen to the book Salmon Summer by Bruce  9” x 12” construction paper, black McMillan. They will learn about subsistence fishing  thin-tip marker, black through the eyes of a nine-year-old Aleut boy who lives  wide-tip markers, assorted colors on Kodiak Island. Students will learn how to create a  glue watercolor wash using color theory to base their color  scissors choices on. They will learn how to create texture on their painting using salt on the wet wash. They will also create a design on a cut-out salmon using Pacific Northwest coast designs or Aleut designs. The salmon are then glued to the watercolor wash, and mounted on construction paper.

SENUNGETUK’S REPEATED SHAPES Materials: Product: Cut-paper collage in complementary colors  10-1/2” x 18” construction paper, complementary colors Students will study artwork called Children at Play by  6” x 18” construction paper, woodworker and Ron Senungetuk. They will complementary colors create collages using cut construction paper in  3” x 4” construction paper, black complementary colors. In Children at Play, kids can be  2-3/4” x 4-1/4” Astrobright™ seen joining hands as they move through the artwork paper, complementary colors surrounded by repeated organic and geometric shapes.  scissors  pencils  glue sticks SHELLS IN OIL PASTEL Materials: Product: An oil pastel drawing of two shells, each from  oil pastels two angles  pencil  ruler After looking at Georgia O'Keeffe paintings and close up  8" x 8" paper, black photographs of shells, students will draw two different  shells (included) shells in two views, then paint their patterns and textures  9" x 9" paper, colored (for using oil pastels. mounting)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 150 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

SNOWFLAKES: RADIAL SYMMETRY Snowflake Print Materials: Product:  clear overheads (one per student) Two silvery snowflake prints from a dried glue line  Elmer’s Glue-All™ printing plate mounted on construction paper  masking tape And a radial cut-paper snowflake design on construction  printing brayer(s) paper or on translucent paper  printing ink, white and silver  newsprint Students will build on their knowledge of geometry and  9” x 9” construction paper, assorted radial symmetry through studying snowflakes. They will colors use the beauty of radial symmetry as a foundation for two  12” x 12” construction paper, black art projects. A follow-up worksheet to use with geometry and white templates is included to reinforce the art/math connection.

Cut-Paper Snowflake Design Materials:  scissors  glue  8-1/2” x 11” copier paper, white  construction paper, assorted warm and cool colors SOLAR SCULPTURE Materials: Product: A low-relief paper sculpture solar system with  12" x 18" construction paper, black stamped/painted details  construction and copier paper, strips and squares, assorted bright colors The illusion of creating space on a two-dimensional  scissors surface is explored by looking at a painting by Wassily  glue Kandinsky and several solar system paintings. Students  paint, white will then create their own solar system with construction  sponges paper and stamped/painted details.  piece of acetate  found objects to print

SPIRIT MASKS Materials: Product: A spirit mask representing the students,  scissors showing things important to them around the edges  glue  markers Students will learn about traditional Yup’ik masks and  construction paper their construction and meaning. They are introduced to  metallic paper contemporary Alaska Native mask makers’ work, and  6" pieces of 1/8" dowel or tongue then produce their own spirit mask about things that are depressors (three to five per important to their lives. student)  6"-7" paper plates (one per student)  tape

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 151 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

STATUTE OF LIBERTY (2 PARTS) Materials: Product: A sponge-painted silhouette of the Statue of Liberty  liquid tempera: blue, yellow, red and black Students will learn about the history of the Statue of Liberty,  9-1/2” x 17” poster board its sculptor, the immigrants, and the many artistic interpretations made through the years. Once considered to be  10” x 18” construction paper, the largest statue in the world, the Statue of Liberty holds the assorted colors promise of freedom and hope. Students will use a stenciling technique and a monochromatic color scheme to create a dynamic painting. STOMP TO THE MUSIC Materials: Product: A watercolor rhythm painting in warm or cool  6” x 18” construction paper, white colors  4-1/2” x 6” construction paper, black (three per student) Students will interpret the creative energy provided by the  watercolor sets musical Stomp Out Loud while exploring rhythm,  oil pastels, white movement, and texture. They will create a work of art  newspapers showing the lines and rhythms made by ordinary sounds,  scissors such as sweeping brooms and trash cans. They will use  glue repeated lines, shapes, and color to let their art be “heard!” STORYKNIFING OUR SYMBOLS Materials: Product: A layered foldable booklet  9” x 12” construction paper, tan  9” x 12” art tissue, white (two per Students will learn about storyknifing, a traditional student) Yup’ik custom of storytelling using abstract symbols to  staplers represent settings, characters, and action in the story.  blank transparencies Layered flip-up books are created so students can record  Vis-a-Vis™ marker their key of symbols, and have a place to draw symbols they have chosen to tell their own stories.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 152 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

TOLERANCE BANNERS Materials: Product: A paper banner using the “Notan” paper cutting  12” x 18” construction paper, technique with designs in both positive and negative white and black shapes  3” x 9” paper strips, white and black Students will learn about the six artists who were asked  6” x 6” paper squares to develop flags communicating the theme tolerance,  7” x 7” paper triangles sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific,  6” x 9” paper rectangles and Cultural Organization. Students will then create their  glue own banners using the Japanese paper cutting technique  scissors called Notan. This technique focuses on positive and negative composition.  24” piece of yarn

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 153 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

VALUE OF INSECTS, THE Materials: Product: A shaded drawing of a enlarged section of an  scrap paper for cleaning off insect in the style of Georgia O'Keefe stomps  half sheet of 9" x Students look closely at an insect in the manner of an 12" construction entomologist and the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. They will paper: red, orange learn to start a drawing by outlining the spaces around and/or brown the object first, and then the major shapes of the insect.  hand held erasers Pencil shading is added after learning to make a value scale. Details are added last of all, including use of the stomp and eraser as drawing tools. VAN GOGH ART APPRECIATION  This art appreciation kit introduces students to the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh. The focus is on his style and use of line and color. Appreciation activities are included.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 154 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fourth Grade

WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP: WET-ON-WET  Materials: Product: A wet-on-wet watercolor painting over pencil  11" x 11" paper, white drawing  12" x 12" paper, black  watercolor paint Students will explore watercolor media through  brush observation of work of well-known painters, practicing  paper towels techniques, and creating paintings.  pencil  objects to draw  glue  drawing board

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 155 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Art Activities & Appreciation Kits

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 156 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Art Kit Order Assistance Sheet

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1-2-3 Henri Matisse Design Landscapes: Points of View Abstract Animal Paintings Michelangelo's Hands African Textile Designs (revised) Macro-Made Ice Worms Amason Animal Portraits Mobiles: Our Solar System in Balance Amason’s 3D Animals Monograms Amason's Whimsical Animals Museum Curator: What is Art? Barn Art Reflections Negative/Positive Chair Drawings Beetles: Positive & Negative Shapes New Ways of Using Color (revised) Bicycles: Math on the Move Newton’s Light Collages Brainstorm! Northern Migrations: Caribou, Cranes & Salmon Cans, Cans, Cans: Andy Warhol, Graphic Artist Northern Team Spirit: Arctic Winter Games Logo Cassatt, Mary: American Impressionist Oaxacan Patterned Animalitos Claire Fejes: A Visit to the Arctic Ocean Life Dioramas Diatoms: Microscopic Jewels Paint Like a Printer Empty Bowls Painting Fairbanks History Expressive Color Portraits Paper Fish Sculptures Flags with Personal Symbols Paper Sculpture Techniques Flowers: Paper Sculpture Celebrations Portraits by Mary Cassatt Forensic Artists: Facebook Posters of Famous Achievers & Explorers Geometric Forms: Vasarely Printed Paper Birch Graphic Arts: Packaging the Candy Bar Quilts: Colorful Geometry Henri Rousseau: An Alaskan Rainforest Ray Troll Salmon Sketches Hockney Landscapes Trees in Tissue Collage Impressionists' Trees Two Shoes Monotype InFORMative Drawing & Shading (unit) Viewing History Inside & Outside of Me Warhol Blotted Line Prints Islamic Design Name Plate Warhol’s Celebrities Japanese Kimono Design Warhol Space Fruit Jazz Collages: Romare Bearden Warhol Wallpaper Kachina Collages Water Currents Landscape Collages Words of Wisdom Collage Landscape Drawing Yup’ik-Style Masks Yup'ik Linear Patterns

— Art Appreciation Kits — — Art Trunks & Birds —

Nebulas: Birth of a Star (K-3) Alaska Native Art: Birds: Andy Goldsworthy: Art from the Earth (4-6) Calligraphy (4-6) Painting Your Feelings: Franz Kline (K-3) - Athabascan (K-3) Cartooning in Stages (4-6) Papermaking (K-6) - Aleut (4) Discovering Color with Sam Francis (K-3) Plovers: A Nature Sketchbook (3-5) - Yup’ik Eskimo (5-6) Escher (4-6) Puppets & Jim Henson (3-6) - General Studies (K-6) Please contact the Art Center for Flowers & Radial Design (3-6) Van Gogh (2-6) availability Modigliani (2-6) Watercolor Workshop: Wet-On-Wet (4-6) Mt. McKinley Landscapes (2-6)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 157 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Fifth Grade

1-2-3 HENRI MATISSE DESIGN Materials: Product: A cut-paper design in Henri Matisse’s style • construction paper, assorted colors based on the students’ own theme • 12" x 18" paper, white • scissors Students will look at and analyze the design of the cut- • glue shape artwork of Henri Matisse. They will use his structure to create cut-shape art related to their own themes.

ABSTRACT ANIMAL PAINTINGS Materials: Product: A painted animal portrait • tempera cakes • easel brush Students will look at Dutch artist Karel Appel’s paintings • water cup and discuss how abstract art is created. They will set up • 18” x 18” paper squares, white studios in the classroom and paint animal portraits using large colored shapes.

AFRICAN TEXTILE DESIGNS Materials: Product: Students create printed and patterned art in the  6” x 6”, 8” x 8”, and 9” x 9” paper, traditional square format of West African textile design. various colors The project begins with the creation of individual stamps  One per student: to be used in the printing process. o Glue sticks o Scissors Printed and dyed cloth is fundamental in o Fine point black felt tip traditional Ghanaian and Nigerian marker cultures as a form of communication. o 3” x 3” scrap cardboard The symbols in print patterns, as well as color, are used o Masking tape- about 4” to share information about an individual or event or tell a strips story. As Africans were brought to America, these o Piece of paper towel traditions came with them, as happens with all cultures that make up our American culture. It is believed this same form of communication was used to create the freedom quilts that escaped slaves looked for in their quest for freedom.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 158 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

AMASON ANIMAL PORTRAITS (UNIT) Materials: Product: Enlarged and exaggerated image of an animal eye Lesson 1 (Eyes on You) with an emphasis on the reflected light  construction paper Close up of an animal face starting with simple geometric  oil pastels shapes, including the exaggerated eyes Continuing lesson two and adding a 3-D muzzle with crepe  glue paper  pencils Students will learn about Alvin Amason, a Native Lesson 2 (What a Face) Alutiiq/Sugpiaq Alaskan, and his unique style of animal  construction paper portraiture.  oil pastels  glue Lesson 1: Students will be introduced to Amason’s use of expressive vs. realistic color, and his use of a highlight in the  scissors eyes that makes them look alive and 3-D.  pencils Lesson 2: Students continue to practice what they learned in Lesson 3 (Welcome to my World) lesson one, with the addition of using simple geometric shapes  construction paper to help create major facial features. Additionally, students  crepe paper (sheets, not rolls) learn that Amason like to do something called “breaking the  liquid glue border,” which students will do in a simplified form.

 scissors Lesson 3: Students will continue with what they learned in  pencils previous lessons, with the addition of a 3-D muzzle constructed of crepe paper.

AMASON’S 3D ANIMALS Materials: Product: 3D watercolor portrait of an animal or bird  white glue mix (3/4 cup glue + ¼ indigenous to Kodiak cup water)  paper plates or bowls for mixing Students learn about the Aleut artist Alvin Amason. He glue and toilet paper together grew up in Kodiak and was influenced by the land,  toilet paper 4 ft. per student (thin, water, and animals of the region. Students will create a school type TP is best) 3D watercolor portrait of an animal or bird indigenous to  6” x 8” construction paper: black Kodiak. Using a paper and glue sculpting materials, the  5” x 7” water color paper animals’ features become 3D.  watercolor paints  water cups  paintbrushes  glue stick

AMASON’S WHIMSICAL ANIMALS Materials: Product: A large painting of an Alaskan animal  tempera or washable paint  1” easel brushes Students will learn about Alvin Amason's painting style,  water cups paint a boldly colored animal and write an elaborate  12" x 18" newsprint whimsical title on it.  paper towels

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 159 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: ART FROM THE EARTH  Materials: Product: Art that is created from nature and recorded by  camera, digital or Polaroid a photo and writing  journals or journal page  pencil Students will study Andy Goldsworthy, a British artist  tape who transforms nature into art, photographs it, and lets it  natural outdoor area, any season return to nature. They will go outside to create art from only nature. Photos and notes are then entered in a journal. (Works well at Twin Bears and similar areas.) ATHLETES IN MOTION Materials: Product: A cut-paper and stamped collage using prepared  6” x 10” construction paper, black papers  glue  scissors Students will learn about the Arctic Winter Games and create an artwork that depicts one of the competitive indoor sports. Students will focus on what a body looks like when playing their chosen sport and use pre-cut flexible shapes to create the various body positions through a stamping technique.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 160 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

BARN ART REFLECTIONS Materials: Product: A barn silhouette monoprint on a watercolor  7" x 10" construction paper, warm backdrop and cool colors  6" x 9" photocopy paper, white Students will learn that folk art is important to America's  block ink, black art history and heritage. They will view folk art paintings  pencils of country scenes and barn structures before drawing to  scissors create a printing plate on foam board. A warm watercolor  glue sticks wash will be the backdrop for a  fine-tip markers, black barn silhouette print reflecting, as a ghost onto cool colors. Students  recycled laminate scrap/sheets of will recognize and discuss transparencies Creamer's Dairy as a reflection of  recycled local culture. newspaper/newsprint/phone books  paint sets, watercolor  paint brushes, 1/2"  masking tape

BEETLES: POSITIVE & NEGATIVE SHAPES Materials: Product: A stenciled paint-and-cut paper artwork of  paper (e.g., Astrobright®, beetles on leaves construction), assorted colors  sponges Students will depict one aspect of life on land in an  scissors artwork about beetles in an environment. They will think  white glue about positive and negative shapes, then cut a stencil  tempera cakes (negative) and paint leaf shapes (positive), and finally lay  markers, black on decorated cut-paper beetles.  3” x 8” railroad board

 18" x 24" paper, white

BICYCLES: MATH ON THE MOVE Materials: Product: An array of bicycle drawings assembled in a  6” x 18” construction paper, collage style assorted colors  12” x 18” paper or construction Students will learn by observing and drawing the many paper, manila OR white geometric aspects of one of the noblest inventions: the  4” x 6” construction paper, gray bicycle. After observing and sketching bicycles, students  glue stick will measure the angles of various bike frames using a  scissors protractor. Students will then discuss the similarities and  compass differences between the frames and the uses for each type  protractor of bicycle. With a compass and a protractor, students will create a mechanical drawing of their bicycle. A collage is created from the various drawings.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 161 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

BRAINSTORM! Materials: Product: An altered self-portrait collage showing drawn  8” x 10” student photo, black and images representing creativity flowing from a popped white open cranium  11-1/2” x 8-1/2” construction paper, black Creativity is the theme as students are introduced to the  9” x 12” construction paper, gray writer and artist Sarah Perry and her book If… Using  colored pencils altered student photographs, students are engaged in  pencils showing through imagery what creativity looks inside their brains. Various media are combined to create the finished product.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 162 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

CALLIGRAPHY  This appreciation kit includes examples in a variety of calligraphy styles, background information, a set of calligraphy pens, and practice sheets to copy for student use. CANS, CANS, CANS: ANDY WARHOL, GRAPHIC ARTIST Materials: Product: Fanciful cans with a label and contents  5” x 9” paper, white  6” x 12” and 3” x 6” paper, gray Students are introduced to the artist, Andy Warhol,  9” x 9” paper, black famous for his Pop-Art paintings of Campbell’s soup  6” x 9” paper, colored cans. Students will learn that Warhol had a career as a  paper pieces, small, assortment graphic artist and media maker.  metallic paper pieces, small  markers  scissors  glue CARTOONING IN STAGES  Materials: Product: A cartoon character  pencils  ink pens, black Students will learn about cartooning, and then will  copier paper develop their own character(s) to make a comic strip.  12" x 18" construction paper Extra activities included. CASSATT, MARY: AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST Materials: Product: A background for Mary Cassatt figures  oil pastels  9” x 12” and 2” x 9” construction Students will look at portraits painted by Mary Cassatt, paper including Portrait of a Young Girl, observing how Mary  12” x 18” construction paper, black Cassatt used paint, pastels, and color. Students will learn  scissors about color-missing, using oil pastels, and create a  glue background for Mary Cassatt figures. CLAIRE FEJES: A VISIT TO THE ARCTIC Materials: Product: A black marker gesture drawing of Arctic  12" x 18" drawing paper, white or people done from photos, with a touch of color manila  paper, black or colored (for Students will travel to the Arctic with Claire Fejes, mounting) observing her intimate portrayals of life in northern  markers, black (for drawing) Alaskan villages. Simple forms and beautiful colors  tempera cakes or watercolor paints characterize the paintings of Claire Fejes, also known for  water cups her extensive journal writings and drawings made during  brushes her travels.  glue

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 163 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

DIATOMS: MICROSCOPIC JEWELS Materials: Product: A design of a microscopic view of intricate  watercolor paints organisms in watercolor  construction paper Students will learn about the Dutch scientist Anton Van  crayon, black Leeuwenhoek, pioneer in microscopy, and his 17th  glue century discoveries before looking at photos of beautiful  scissors single-celled diatoms.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 164 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

EMPTY BOWLS Materials: Product: A small ceramic bowl  clay (suitable for firing in a kiln) Every year the Fairbanks Food Bank holds a fundraiser featuring pottery bowls created by the Fairbanks Potter’s Guild. It was the Potter’s Guild wish to partner with the schools so students can be involved with this project. Each student will learn the process of creating a clay bowl large enough to hold a cup of rice. Through this project, they will learn what resources are available to those in need. ESCHER  In this appreciation kit, students will learn about M.C. Escher, an architect and illusionist who used mathematical structures in his art. Students will explore the concept of tessellations and symmetry. Activities for center and groups included. EVERYONE DRAWS DIFFERENTLY  Materials: Product: Individual pictures for a weekly calendar page  construction paper, assorted colors  drawing materials, assortment Students will look at the differences between many  blank calendar, blank artists, their subjects, and the materials used. They will then make a picture of their own for a calendar page. EXPRESSIONIST EVIRONMENTS  Materials: Product: A paper pop-out form filled with line, shape,  oil pastels color, and texture  2” x 9” construction paper, assorted colors, Students will look at artist Judy Pfaff and her style of  2” x 12” construction paper, assorted work. They will use color, shape, line, and texture colors  3” x 9” construction paper, assorted creating a three-dimensional environment out of paper. colors They will then cut, fold, curl, and bend paper, adding  6” x 6” construction paper, assorted wire and oil pastel design for detail. colors  9” x 12” construction paper, assorted colors  2" x 18" construction paper, black  scissors  glue  telephone wire

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 165 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

EXPRESSIVE COLOR PORTRAITS Materials: Product: A mounted portrait of another student done with  acetate sheet (one per student) black marker on acetate with oil pastel expressive color  tape  scissors This lesson explores contour line drawing and the color  glue ideas of value and intensity. Students will produce a  permanent marker portrait by tracing lines on acetate taped to Plexiglas®.  construction paper (for mounting) These are colored in an expressive manner after looking  oil pastels at the work of several artists.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 166 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

FLAGS WITH PERSONAL SYMBOLS Materials: Product: A 9" x 6" felt flag with personal symbols and  6" x 9" felt, assorted colors reinforced edge for hanging  3" x 9" felt, assorted colors  scissors Students will learn that flags are designed to represent  rulers ideas with symbols, and then they will create a personal  white glue flag. The kit includes many paintings from American  fine-tip felt markers history with flags in them.  2" x 6" poster or railroad board FLOWERS & RADIAL DESIGN  Materials: Product: A radial design of a drawing/painting  oil pastels  brushes Students will look at the many things around them, both  pencils natural and man-made, that have radial design. They will  rulers take a closer look at the radial design in flowers. Just like  scissors the flowers, they begin with a center shape and let the  9" x 12" construction paper, white flower grow as their ideas grow. They will finish with oil  paper towels pastels, watercolor, and contour cutting. FLOWERS: PAPER SCULPTURE CELEBRATIONS Materials: Product: A large sculpture of paper flowers with oil  9” x 12” construction paper, gray pastel details mounted on 9” x 12” paper and assorted colors  thin wire, (floral-type or Students will look at large photographs of various telephone) flowers, talk about floral anatomy and variation, and  oil pastels learn paper sculpture techniques including scoring,  scissors curling, and imbedding wire. They will then create their  glue own flower sculpture, which is mounted on a gray paper background. FORENSIC ARTISTS: FACEBOOK Materials: Product: A flipbook of faces  construction paper  copy paper The career of a Forensic Artist is spotlighted using a  pencils PowerPoint presentation. After viewing the PowerPoint,  crayons students will create a drawing of a face in proportion, much like a police sketch artist would. Students will create a flipbook from their face drawings. These drawings create a collaborative book by flipping through different sets of eyes, noses, mouths, etc. to create a new face each time.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 167 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

GEOMETRIC FORMS: VASARELY Materials: Product: A paper geometric form decorated with colored  Construction paper or cardstock shapes, which can be hung cubes and tetrahedrons, colored (templates included) Students are introduced to the Op-Art of Victor Vasarely,  scissors and will discuss the elements and principles of design to  glue learn how Vasarely created his illusions.  tape (for hanging-optional)  string (for hanging-optional)  scrap paper, colored  pattern blocks (included)

GRAPHIC ARTS: PACKAGING THE CANDY BAR Materials: Product: A paper and foil candy bar wrapped in an  copier paper, 2 sheets original graphic design wrapper, slightly 3-D  6" masking tape  9" x 12" aluminum foil Students will examine graphic design as seen in  6" slice of a newspaper commercial packaging of foods. They will then construct  scissors and label a candy bar in paper and foil.  glue  erasers  markers, assorted

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 168 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

HENRI ROUSSEAU: AN ALASKAN RAINFOREST Materials : Product: Students create a 3-D pop-up Alaskan temperate  Construction paper, one per rainforest scene that demonstrates foreground, midground, student: and background space using a variety of symmetrical o 9” x 12” medium blue cutting and paper folding techniques. o 9” x 11” dark blue o 4” x 8” light or medium Artist Henri Rousseau had a passion for tropical green rainforest. He did research to learn as much as he could o 1.5” x 3” light orange about these regions of the world, and then used his o 3” x 3” light and dark imagination to paint many famous pictures. Alaska is brown or black and gray home to one of the largest temperate rainforests that o 2” x 2” light and dark stretches along the southeast coast. Students learn the brown or black and gray difference between the two types of  Scissors rainforests, and look at images of  Glue stick plants and animals that make the  Crayons, white and assorted Alaskan rainforest unique. Students use their imagination as they include the very important salmon returning to their birth streams with a predator looking for a feast! HOCKNEY LANDSCAPES Materials: Product: A large, colorful, landscape painting  washable or tempera paint: magenta, blue and yellow David Hockney is a contemporary British-born artist who  1” easel brushes (and a smaller has painted colorful, patterned landscapes. Students will one also) respond to his work and then design a simple landscape  paper plate, coated-type (for composition with chalk. Using a palette and large brush, palette) students will mix colors and paint their landscape.  colored chalk (one piece per student)  18" x 24" paper, white

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 169 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

IMPRESSIONISTS’ TREES Materials: Product: A large painting of a tree or trees in a landscape  tempera or washable paint  1" easel brushes Students will compare the painting styles of three  12" x 24" paper impressionists, and then paint a tree(s) in a style of their  water cups own.  paper towels INFORMATIVE DRAWING & SHADING (UNIT) Materials: Product: Lesson 1 (cylinder) Lesson 1: Pencil, crayon, and pastel drawing  pastels, white Lesson 2: Pencil, crayon, and pastel drawing  crayons, black and sepia Lesson 3: Pencil and pastel drawing  5-1/2” x 8-1/2” construction paper: tan, light blue, and gray Lesson 1: Students will learn how to  6” x 9” construction paper, black systematically draw and shade a cylinder  glue sticks and/or tube. The skills learned in this lesson translate to  regular HB #2 classroom pencils drawing other geometric forms. Once these classic (mechanical pencils are OK) drafting skills have been mastered, students will be able Lesson 2 (cube, sphere, and cone) to rely on this proficiency when sketching from life  pastels, white (which is the all-time best way to get better at drawing), when drawing from imagination, and when making  crayons: black, sepia, blue, and red digital drawings (consider trying the iPad app: Drawing  5-1/2” x 8-1/2” construction paper: Box). tan, light blue, and gray  6” x 9” construction paper, black Lesson 2: Students will learn how to  glue sticks systematically draw and shade a cube, sphere  regular HB #2 classroom or and cone. The skills learned in this lesson are mechanical pencils transferable to drawing everyday objects, Lesson 3 (geometric still life) cityscapes, landscapes, and imagined images.  HB #2 pencils Students will be given guided practice  6B pencils through direct instruction alternated with  charcoal pencils, white (your independent practice. school has a primary and intermediate drawing tub in the Lesson 3: Students will put all their new rendering skills library, which contain lots of art to work through drawing a fantasy still life composed of pencils) any three of the four forms that they have learned to draw  pastels, white this year.  5-1/2” x 8-1/2” construction paper: tan, light blue, and gray  6” x 9” construction paper, black  glue sticks

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 170 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

INSIDE & OUTSIDE OF ME Materials: Product: An inside and outside self-portrait in words,  6” x 6” construction paper, white color, and pattern about the students own unique qualities  9” x 9” construction paper, black  7-1/2” x 9” construction paper, Students will examine the work and words of four “artist assorted colors heroes” who dared to be themselves and drew artistic  1” x 4” paper, bright colored strength from their own qualities and beliefs. Students  scissors will investigate the concept of tolerance through creating  glue an artwork about their own unique qualities.  rubber stamps with stamp pad  copied words and alphabets ISLAMIC DESIGN NAME PLATE Materials: Product: Nameplate for desk or home using watercolors,  thin-tip permanent markers black markers, and a touch of gold  watercolors  paper: white, black and colored Students will look at the layered borders and intricate design patterns in Islamic tiles, textiles, and manuscripts.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 171 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

JAPANESE KIMONO DESIGN Materials: Product: A paper kimono with oil pastel and construction  6” x 18” construction paper, white paper patterns or black  6” x 9” construction paper, white Students will examine traditional kimonos from Japan on or black colored transparencies. They will learn about the  1-1/2” x 12” construction paper, meaning of some of the patterns and how designs were white or black created.  3” x 6” construction paper, assorted colors  patterned paper, colored (if available)  scissors  glue  oil pastels  gold glitter (optional) JAZZ COLLAGES: ROMARE BEARDEN Materials: Product: A small collage with a jazz instrument drawing  watercolor paper and watercolor  watercolors  magazine pages Students will learn about the artist Romare Bearden, and  paper, assorted colors how his art reflects the Harlem Renaissance and the  scissors development of jazz. They will consider his favorite art  glue and water solution form “collage” and then create their own collage using  small cup multiple materials and techniques.  brush  grease pencils

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 172 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

KACHINA COLLAGES Materials: Product: An abstract paper collage  construction paper, assorted colors  glue Students will learn about the Santa Clara Pueblo artist  scissors Helen Hardin. Her art uses imagery from her culture  thin-tip markers, black (Kachina), geometric shapes, and multi-layered color  thick-tip markers, black schemes. Students will focus their art on the abstract  water cups faces Hardin used in her work by creating a layered collage using cut paper, markers, and paint and creating multiple layers with different media.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 173 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

LANDSCAPE COLLAGES Materials: Product: A torn paper collage landscape  liquid washable paint  paper plate palettes Students are introduced to the group of seven Canadian  brushes painters who worked in a northern landscape similar to  water cups Alaska. They will look at the structure of landscape  12” x 15” paper, colored (for paintings, describing the foreground, background, and mounting) middle ground. They will explore color by painting  9” x 12” paper: white, light blue, paper, and then create a torn paper collage landscape. or light violet  6” x 12” paper, white (two per student) LANDSCAPE DRAWING Materials: Product: A practice sheet of lines and a small copy of a  broad-tip markers, black or brown van Gogh drawing with a finished landscape from  fine-tip markers, black or brown imagination while using a variety of lines to create values  6" x 16" drawing paper, manila or white Students will explore line as a way to create value in a  8" x 18" paper, black or brown (for drawing. They will see how line can be used as a way to mounting) identify the unique drawing style of an artist through  view finder observing and discussing the drawings of Vincent van  paper, any type (for practice) Gogh. LANDSCAPES: POINT OF VIEW Materials: Product: Low relief watercolor landscape painting  Payons™ or watercolors demonstrating horizon, vanishing point, background, and  paint brushes, medium foreground  watercolor paper  markers, black Different artist’s styles are highlighted as students  white glue examine issues concerning land resources. They learn  toilet paper, thin-ply how to design and draw a landscape using the horizon, vanishing point, background, middle ground, and  construction paper (for mounting) foreground, choosing a Draanjik reference photograph. The Draanjik (river of many caches) region in northeastern Alaska is an important resting spot for waterfowl when they depart Fairbanks’ Creamer’s Field. This drawing is used as a base for a watercolor painting. Students then choose several 3D additions of salt, thin paper, black beads (representing vanishing points), and paper geese or miniature models of a Gwich’in birch- bark canoe.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 174 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

MACRO-MADE ICE WORMS Materials: Product: A 3D glacier diorama with a finger-knitted yarn  pencils ice worm  scissors  glue sticks Students will learn that microscopic ice worms actually  staplers exist and were first discovered in Alaska in 1887 on Muir  cellophane Glacier. They will each create a triangular diorama  12” x 12” construction paper: blue, depicting an Alaskan glacier and finger knit a macro- violet, and black made ice worm using icy-colored yarn.  oil pastels, blue and white  yarn MICHELANGELO’S HANDS Materials: Product: A full-size drawing of hands  6” x 9” paper, white  9” x 9” paper, black and colored Students will study Michelangelo’s paintings and  chalk, white and colored sculptures. They will then draw their own hands in a  pencil sculptural style using pencils and chalks to create three-  eraser dimensional effects.  glue MISSION: SPACE VOYAGER Materials: Product: A 3D sculpture of an imaginary space  9” x 12” construction paper, black exploration vehicle  glue stick  scissors Students will learn about NASA space missions and embark on an integrated lesson that involves designing, building, and displaying a small sculpture that represents an imaginary space exploration vehicle. This lesson models the STEAM approach to an integrated art lesson. MOBILES: OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IN BALANCE Materials: Product: Mobile featuring three-dimensional forms that  #1 size paper clips, 5 boxes of 100 relate to planets in our solar system  12” pipe cleaners: 200 (2 packs of 100) Students will create a mobile sculpture. After developing  8” plastic jumbo drinking straws: their mobile’s structure, students read non-fiction 200 (1/2 box of 400 from A&W descriptions of planets in our solar system, and then Wholesale) create three-dimensional forms from paper that relate to  2’ piece of string per student their understanding of the planets’ attributes. They  Glue-all® or white glue, 14 (one attach their planetary forms to their mobile in their solar between two) order, while simultaneously making constant adjustments  glue stick, one each to the many fulcrum points to help their sculpture  scissors balance and move.  paper strips/scraps, variety of colors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 175 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

MODIGLIANI ART APPRECIATION  This appreciation kit has historical information about Modigliani’s life, his style, and influences. There are center activities and suggestions for in-class projects.

MONOGRAMS Materials: Product: Individual monograms designed with fanciful  colored pencils, including white lettering and borders, colored with colored pencils, and  4" x 4" paper, colored mounted on black with a colored border  42" x 42" paper, colored  6" x 6" paper, black (for The lesson focuses on the use of colored pencils in an mounting) illustration and lettering design, and looks closely at  glue contemporary illustrators Chris Van Allsburg and Deborah Lattimore. Students will use colored pencils to create their own monograms in the tradition of manuscript illuminators of the past and modern book. MT. MCKINLEY LANDSCAPES Materials: Product: A pastel landscape of Mt. McKinley  drawing paper  construction paper Students will learn the basics of drawing and color  pastels: orange, blue and white mixing as they create a pastel landscape of Mt.  pencils McKinley.  glue sticks MUSEUM CURATOR: WHAT IS ART? Materials: Product: Groups will decide what should be included in a  fine-tip markers, black museum exhibit collection and present their ideas to the  construction paper, black and class white Students will work in cooperative groups to determine the value and meaning of a wide variety of images of art and objects.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 176 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

NEGATIVE/POSITIVE CHAIR DRAWINGS Materials: Product: A mounted cut-out of the space around a drawn  12" x 28" paper, white or manila object  9" x 12" construction paper, colored Students will practice looking carefully at photographs  pencils and artwork to see both the positive shapes and negative  marker, black spaces around them. They will practice looking at an  scissors object through a viewfinder to help see the negative  glue space. After making a contour drawing of the object, negative shapes will be outlined, cut-out, and reassembled to reveal positive shapes.

NEW WAYS OF USING COLOR Materials: Product: After viewing a photographic image of  liquid or cake tempera paint: something from the natural world, students create non- white, primary, & secondary representational paintings using only dabs of various colors mixed colors organized in an abstract way. Students  6” x 9” construction paper, white strive to create colors that match those seen in the photo. & a variety of light colors  9” x 12” black construction paper Students learn to mix colors and color values after to frame the art reviewing the color wheel. They create a painting in the  0.5” flat paint brushes style of Alma Thomas, an African American art teacher and artist who achieved many “firsts” in her lifetime. Her style of painting with dabs of color is similar in appearance to mosaics. The colored dabs, inspired by the colors seen in the natural world, are arranged in patterns that are not constrained by the shapes of actual objects.

NEWTON’S LIGHT COLLAGES Materials: Product: A 3D light collage  9” x 9”, 6” x 6”, and 1” x 9” construction paper: red, orange, Students will learn about Sir Isaac Newton and his prism yellow, green, blue, indigo and experiment, and will see how he proved that sunlight, violet also known as white light, when refracted shows the  3” x 3” construction paper: colors of the rainbow. This information will guide Astrobright® paper students in creating double 3D starburst collages, using  1” x 12” construction paper, black papers to represent the long and short wavelength of  scrap paper, various colors and color and related vocabulary text accents. texture  pencils  glue sticks  scissors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 177 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

NEW WAYS OF USING COLOR  Materials: Product: A nonrepresentational painting (shapes of color  construction paper, white arranged in a pattern) from flowers or space.  tempera paint cakes: white, primary, and secondary colors Students will review color mixing and explore the color  watercolor brushes ideas of value, intensity, and quantity. They are  construction paper, assorted colors introduced to the idea of painting atmosphere and (for framing) nonrepresentational art through the work of African  glue or glue sticks American artist Alma Thomas. Looking at photographs  water cups of flowers and space, students will match the colors they  paper towels see by mixing paint. They will then arrange those colors in a pattern of shapes on their paper.  pencils NORTHERN MIGRATIONS: CRANES, CARIBOU, & SALMON Materials: Product: A watercolor and crayon-resist artwork showing  watercolors repetition of animal silhouette shapes in motion.  crayons or oil pastels, white  scissors Students will look at groups of migrating salmon,  glue caribou, and cranes in photos and artwork and then draw  5” x 17” construction paper, white and cut out silhouettes. They will create a wet-on-wet  6” x 18” construction paper, black watercolor background using a crayon.  5” x 7” index cards, assorted colors NORTHERN TEAM SPIRIT: ARCTIC WINTER GAMES LOGO Materials: Product: A pastel “stained glass” Arctic Winter Games  glue logo  oil pastels  pencils Students will be introduced to Jill Marshall, a Fairbanks  10” x 17” construction paper, black graphic artist who designed the 2014 Arctic Winter  11” x 18” construction paper, white Games logo. They replicate an image of the logo by  4” x 22” railroad board (for soaring creating templates of raven, stars, and soaring lines lines) before tracing them. An impression of stained glass will  4” x 4” railroad board (for the stars) be achieved by outlining the shapes using a white pencil and then filling in the areas using the colors of the Arctic  9” x 12” railroad board (for the Winter Games. ravens)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 178 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

OAXACAN PATTERNED ANIMALITOS Materials: Product: A 3-D animal made of railroad board, decorated  railroad board and colored with oil pastels.  oil pastels  scissors Students will look at and handle Mexican Oaxacan  glue (pronounced WA-HA-CAN) wooden animal sculptures. These animals are painted in bright colors and intricate patterns. The simple shapes and patterned brightness of the animals are the inspiration for students’ designs. OCEAN LIFE DIORAMAS Materials: Product: A colorful ocean diorama containing either  12" x 18" construction paper, coral reef life or Alaskan/Northern ocean life black  paper, assorted colors Students will look at photographs of life under the ocean  oil pastels and get experience using them as a resource in drawing.  scissors Drawings are colored with oil pastels and cut out to  glue create paper fish, marine mammals, and other ocean life forms to place in a habitat within a black paper diorama box.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 179 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

PAINTING FAIRBANKS HISTORY Materials: Product: Painted pictures of historic buildings from historic  permanent markers, blue or black photos  tempera cakes, color and white Students will look at photographs of Fairbanks from 1904 to  12” x 12” paper, white the present, especially noticing growth along the Chena River bank. They will look at illustrations by Yukon artist and writer Ted Harrison. Borrowing from Ted Harrison’s distinctive style, students will paint a historic building using photos as guides. PAINT LIKE A PRINTER Materials: Product: A small watercolor painting of overlapping  6” x 6” watercolor paper transparent letters  7” x 7” construction paper, black  5” x 5” construction paper, Students will learn about two new color models (additive assorted colors and subtractive) used in computers and color copiers.  4” x 4” construction paper, The artist Georges Seraut is examined for his use of assorted colors pointillism, and also Benjamin Harris Day, the inventor  3” x 3” construction paper, of Ben Day Dots which were the precursor to pixels. assorted colors Using their initials, students will create a watercolor  permanent marker, black painting that replicates the color printer model of applying pigment in layers and incorporates small dots of  glue color to demonstrate both Seraut and Harris’  scissors techniques 13.  pencil PAPER FISH SCULPTURES Materials: Product: A paper fish relief sculpture mounted on black  crepe paper strips, assorted or colored 9" x 12" paper  9" x 12" construction paper, assorted colors Students will construct a relief sculpture in crepe paper  9" x 12" construction paper, black after discussing ways to make a flat paper three-  construction paper scrap box, dimensional. colored  scissors  glue PAPERMAKING  This appreciation kit contains a blender, screens, frames, other supplies and instructions to assist with papermaking.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 180 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

PAPER SCULPTURE TECHNIQUES Materials: Product: A paper sculpture that hangs on the wall using a  9” x 12” construction paper, white variety of folding, cutting and bending techniques (cut to 4” x 3” strips)  9” x 12” construction paper, white Students will learn about two well-known paper (cut to 3” x 3” strips) sculpture artists, how paper is made, and various paper  9” x 12” construction paper, white sculpting techniques. After creating an armature out of (cut to 1/2" strips) railroad board, students will attach their sculpture  7” x 11” railroad board, assorted components in a creative way to make a fun and colors imaginative paper sculpture.  7” x 12” construction paper, black  9” x 12” construction paper, colored  glue  scissors PLOVERS: A NATURE SKETCHBOOK  Materials: Product: A sketchbook with studies of color-mixing and  sketchbooks bird drawings  colored pencils Students will learn about the Golden Plover from the book, Flight of the Golden Plover. They will practice mixing colors by layering two and three colored pencils. Then they will learn how to draw birds standing, bending, eating, and flying. PORTRAITS BY MARY CASSATT Materials: Product: A 12" x 12" chalk-pastel double portrait of the  12" x 18" paper, manila (cut to 12" student/artist with a friend, relative, or pet x 12")  12” x 18” paper, manila (cut to 6” Students will hear about Mary Cassatt and study some of x 12") her portraits. They will explore some properties of chalk  chalk pastels (NUPASTEL™), and facial proportions. Then, they will "paint" a double colored portrait of themselves with someone or a pet.  paper towels

POSTERS OF FAMOUS ACHIEVERS & EXPLORERS Materials: Product: Collage portraits with a quote  construction paper  tissue paper Students will be introduced to the thoughts and faces of  glue famous achievers and explorers. Looking at portraits by  scissors Andy Warhol and Fred Babb will provide ideas for  markers adding color to the posters students create. The posters use copied faces of chosen famous achievers that have been embellished with tissue paper and marker. A favorite saying or quote from their chosen person is added.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 181 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

PRINTED PAPER BIRCH Materials: Product: A collage of birch trees with branches drawn  6” x 9” construction paper, black with a marker  5” x 8” construction paper, blues and purples Students will learn how to create a realistic looking birch  5” x 2” construction paper, greens tree using a simple printmaking technique that is called and browns monoprinting. After looking at birch trees more closely,  1” x 3” cardboard scrap students use their observation skills to draw realistic  1” x 11” tag board, any color birch tree branches with thick and thin lines. They will  tempera paint, black learn how to show a foreground, middle ground, and  tempera paint, white background in their collage through their composition and placement of their trees.  paint cups  copy paper  glue sticks  medium-tip markers, black  fine-tip markers, black  scissors  old newspaper PUPPETS & JIM HENSON  Materials: Product: A paper puppet with a moving mouth  construction paper, assorted colors and sizes Students will develop their own puppet characters using  scissors ideas from puppeteer Jim Henson. They will learn the  glue difference between marionettes, puppets, and Muppets.  markers, black They will create a puppet with a moveable mouth and "introduce" their puppet to others.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 182 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

QUILTS: COLORFUL GEOMETRY Materials: Product: A colorful individual quilt block based on  construction paper, black and triangles and squares, set on a double border colors  patterned copier paper (masters Color overhead photos of traditional and contemporary included) quilts utilizing mostly squares and triangles are the basis  ruler or template (included) for discussion on design and color. Students will create a  scissors quilt block of their own geometric design on a folded  glue grid with borders.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 183 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

RAY TROLL: SALMON SKETCHES Materials: Product: A pastel drawing of a salmon "leaping" off a  newsprint paper cool background  4-1/2" x 12" construction paper, black (to draw final fish on) Students will learn about Alaskan artist Ray Troll and  5-1/2" x 9-1/2" construction paper, about the external anatomy of cool colors (to display the fish) salmon. Elements of shape will  pencils be used as guidelines to sketch  scissors their fish images before using  glue sticks oil pastels to provide brilliant  oil pastels details and vibrant outlines. ROUSSEAU’S RAINFOREST  Materials: Product: A 3D rainforest with a foreground, middle  2" x 22" railroad board ground, and background drawn with oil pastels  6" x 9" construction paper, assorted greens, blues and purples A discussion of Henri Rousseau’s style and rainforest  4-1/2 " x 6" construction paper, paintings introduces the lesson. Students will use oil dark green pastels to draw and blend colors of the rainforest flora.  3" x 9" construction paper, light Pieces are cut out and glued to make a three-dimensional brown construction.  oil pastels  scissors  glue

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 184 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

TREES IN TISSUE COLLAGE Materials: Product: A painted black line tree with tissue collage  12" x 18" paper, white and black  11" x 17" paper, white (precut) Students will search small reproductions to  5” x 7” tissue paper, assorted observe his imaginative ideas, and then create a tree colors (precut) trunk and foliage using painted lines and colored tissue.  tempera cakes, black  brush  towels  glue  scissors TWO SHOES MONTYPE Materials: Product: A mounted monotype print  Plexiglas® printing plates  tempera cakes Students will explore the monotype printmaking process.  brush They will learn some color theory, and practice mixing  water tempera paint to create a colorful print of their shoe.  scratch paper They will pull a “ghost” print and work with water-  glue soluble crayons on it to change how it looks.  pencil  12" x 18" construction paper, colored (for mounting)  construction paper, white (dampened)  Payons™

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 185 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

VAN GOGH ART APPRECIATION  This art appreciation kit introduces students to the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh. The focus is on his style and use of line and color. Appreciation activities are included. VIEWING HISTORY Materials: Product: A “folio” for storage of art sketches  9” x 12” construction paper, or art projects in progress assorted colors  glue Students compare and contrast two historical paintings  scissors depicting the same event, Washington Crossing the  copy of Picturing America Delaware. As students become informed, critical reproduction of Washington viewers, the two paintings reveal the artists’ intent when Crossing the Delaware by creating their paintings. Students create a folio to hold Emanuel Leutze (school library or the tools used in the lesson, such as a viewfinder, online image) Thinking Map, and art papers.  pen, black

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 186 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

WARHOL BLOTTED LINE PRINTS Materials: Product: Blotted line monoprint of a Warhol shoe on top  construction paper: a student-made collage background o 9”x12” black o 8”x11” pastel colors (peach, light Students will learn about Andy Warhol’s early career as blue, light purple, light green) a graphic artist where his shoe illustrations were used in students choose 1 magazine and newspaper advertisements. Warhol o random sizes and shapes for invented a blotted line printing process, the lesson collage background (darker and neon shades of pastel paper) inspiration.  practice paper (scrap printer paper)  glue stick  scissors (only if collage pieces are not precut by teacher)  masking tape, 12” per student  black tempera paint  small paint cups (shared between 2-3 students) WARHOL’S CELEBRITIES Materials: Product: Four faces of famous artists cut, colored, and  12" x 12" paper, white arranged on 12" x 12" white paper  scissors  glue sticks Students will work with two elements of Andy Warhol's  markers early art, repetition and celebrities, by treating four  face pictures (included) identical faces with variation. WARHOL SPACE FRUIT Materials: Product: Fruit still life drawing turned into a paper  scissors collage  glue stick  pencil Students will be inspired by Warhol’s Space Fruit series.  9”x12” drawing paper: white The Pop Artist added his twist on the traditional fruit still  construction paper: life emphasizing the “space” the fruit inhabited by o 9”x12” black (background) including the fruits’ unique shadows. o 8”x11” purple, blue, red, green (student choose 1) o 6”x9” yellow, orange, red, green (student choose 1)  8 1/2”x 5 1/2” (half of a 8 1/2”x11” sheet) neon paper (Astrobright): bright yellow, neon orange, hot pink, lime green (students choose 1)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 187 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

WARHOL WALLPAPER Materials: Product: Students will make their own foam stamp to  2”x3” cardboard print a repeating Alaskan fish pattern wallpaper sample.  4”x6” grid paper (1/2”x1/2” ) or light-colored construction paper Warhol’s Paintings for Children series will be explored  2”x6” practice paper (grid or any and its graphic fish wallpaper will be the inspiration. scrap paper) Students will use a graphic designer’s trick to make their  5”x7” background construction pattern repeat perfectly. paper (black)  masking tape, 2” strip  scissors  glue stick  colored pencils (optional) WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP: WET-ON-WET  Materials: Product: A wet-on-wet watercolor painting over pencil  11" x 11" paper, white drawing  12" x 12" paper, black  watercolor paint Students will explore watercolor media through  brush observation of work of well-known painters, practicing  paper towels techniques, and creating paintings.  pencil  objects to draw  glue  drawing board WATER CURRENTS Materials: Product: A line study in colored cut-paper and sand  9" x 12" paper, assorted colors  4-1/2” x 4-1/2” paper, assorted colors Students will discuss lines found in nature that all go in  white glue one direction. They will then produce a line study in cut-  one empty coffee can (with hole in paper and sand that shows the rhythm and flow of water lid) currents.  #30 silica sand (in coffee can)  world map

WORDS OF WISDOM COLLAGE Materials: Product: A colorful, printmaking collage with text printmaking ink: magenta, yellow and blue Students will learn from the book Only One You by Linda 9” x 12” construction paper Krantz about the “words of wisdom” parents offer their tissue paper scraps, assorted colors children as they go out into the world. After discussing what words of wisdom they have heard from friends and family, glue students will create a collage using printmaking ink and scissors brayers. They will add their own words to this dynamic color collage by tracing words on to tissue paper.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 188 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Fifth Grade

YUP’IK LINEAR PATTERNS Materials: Product: A felt linear pattern design  6" X 12" construction paper, various colors Students learn how to combine Math, Art, and Yup'ik  7" x 13" construction paper, black knowledge in creating a pattern based on using a non-  scissors standard unit of measurement...their knuckle! Using this  liquid method, they are able to create an accurate square from glue an irregular piece of paper. From this square, they design  pencils patterns from contrasting colors of felt that repeat over and over. This linear pattern design is used on parka edges, headdresses, and fur boots. YUP’IK STYLE MASKS Materials: Product: A mounted torn paper mask with Yup’ik  construction paper, assorted earth- features tones  12" x 18" construction paper, Students are introduced to Yup’ik culture through black looking at masks. They will learn to recognize features of  2" crepe paper strips, black or Yup’ik masks, and then create their own torn-paper brown mask.  glue

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 189 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Art Activities & Appreciation Kits

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 190 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Art Kit Order Assistance Sheet

Blue, bold-face font indicates a new kit. Action Figures Like Schapiro & Matisse Journaling with Leonardo African Kufi Hats Kitsch Art: Eyeglasses African Mud Cloth Lamppost Banners: Celebrating the Arctic Winter Alien Life in Abstract (revised) Games Amason’s 3D Animals Leonardo's One-Point Perspective Architectural Facades “Me” Poem Book Architect Models: My Site Metal Repoussé Bamboo Painting Migration Lines Birch Trees “DioramART” Missing Mona! Birch Trees with Kes Woodward Mobiles: Our Solar System in Balance Birds of Different Feathers Mosaic Design: Greek & Roman Blowups Mt. McKinley: Sydney Laurence Box Design by Graphic Designers Musical and Visual Rhythms Calder Stabiles Observe, Question & Write Calligraphy Journey Open Doors to Drawing (unit) Carlo-Kendall’s Mask Journey Painting with the Elements Cell Felties Phillip Charette: Masks with Value Charette: Mixed-Media Monotypes Play with Perspective Chuck Close: Up Close Prehistoric Cave Art Color Relationships Printing to the Beat of Your Own Tune Comb Designs Ribbon Illusions (revised) Doodles & Form Roman Bust Portraits Dreaming Up Dragons Sculpture Proposal, The Egyptian Obelisks Shading Forms Egyptian Sarcophagus Shirts with World Patterns Embossed Cards Shoe Design Fairbanks: Boom or Bust Shorebirds: Sentinels of Change Felt Animal Masks Split-Image Drawing Flowers with Georgia Tinwork Frames Gesture Figure Drawing Tools of the Trade Greek Columns Wright Angles Grids and Values in Art & Math Wright, Frank Lloyd: Texture H is for Health Wright On! Helping Hands Wright Perspective, The Horse Studies with da Vinci and Butterfield Wright’s Stained Glass Windows Hundertwasser: Architect Yup’ik Animal Masks Insect Drawings Yup’ik Eskimo Diorama Jacob Lawrence Athletes Zentangles

— Art Appreciation Kits — — Art Trunks & Birds —

Nebulas: Birth of a Star (K-3) Alaska Native Art: Birds: Andy Goldsworthy: Art from the Earth (4-6) Calligraphy (4-6) Painting Your Feelings: Franz Kline (K-3) - Athabascan (K-3) Cartooning in Stages (4-6) Papermaking (K-6) - Aleut (4) Discovering Color with Sam Francis (K-3) Plovers: A Nature Sketchbook (3-5) - Yup’ik Eskimo (5-6) Escher (4-6) Puppets & Jim Henson (3-6) - General Studies (K-6) Please contact the Art Center for Flowers & Radial Design (3-6) Van Gogh (2-6) availability Modigliani (2-6) Watercolor Workshop: Wet-On-Wet (4-6) Mt. McKinley Landscapes (2-6)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 191 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Sixth Grade

ACTION FIGURES LIKE SCHAPIRO & MATISSE Materials: Product: An action figure collage with painted • cake tempera, assorted colors background • paint brushes, large • water cups Students will look at the colorful cut-paper collages of • glue Miriam Schapiro and Henri Matisse. They will paint a • 4" x 6" construction paper, background then create a person in action with many assorted colors colorful, collaged papers. • 4" x 32" construction paper, assorted colors • assorted textured paper (copier paper) • metallic paper pieces • 9" x 12" construction paper, white • 12" x 18" construction paper, black

AFRICAN KUFI HATS Materials: Product: An African Kufi hat • 1/2” x 18” construction paper strips Students will learn about the strip weaving of Ghana and • crepe paper the African Adinkra cloth made with stamped patterns. • railroad board strips Kufi hats are made with a seven-strip weaving and • staplers stamped African symbols. • scissors • glue • tape

AFRICAN MUD CLOTH Materials: Product: Stamped objects on colored fabric • Sunlight™ dish detergent • pipe cleaners Students will examine the West African technique of • Q-tips™ making a “mud cloth.” • paper scraps • cotton fabric

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 192 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

ALIEN LIFE IN ABSTRACT Materials: (per student) Product: A 2D fantasy oil pastel painting.  oil pastels  glue Students learn that master artists such  pencil as Paul Klee, Joan Miro, and Alexei  12” x 18” construction paper, Jawlensky focused on simplified forms, black or dark blue lines, and color to express themselves  11” x 17” construction paper, in their abstract artwork. In black or dark blue appreciation of this style of art,  Photocopy paper students draw fantasy, oil pastel paintings on dark construction paper to show abstract aliens in their celestial environment. They also create subtle textures by pressing a gum eraser across and through the oil pastels.

AMASON’S 3D ANIMALS Materials: Product: 3D watercolor portrait of an animal or bird  white glue mix (3/4 cup glue + ¼ indigenous to Kodiak cup water)  paper plates or bowls for mixing Students learn about the Aleut artist Alvin Amason. He glue and toilet paper together grew up in Kodiak and was influenced by the land,  toilet paper 4 ft. per student (thin, water, and animals of the region. Students will create a school type TP is best) 3D watercolor portrait of an animal or bird indigenous to  6” x 8” construction paper: black Kodiak. Using a paper and glue sculpting materials, the  5” x 7” water color paper animals’ features become 3D.  watercolor paints  water cups  paintbrushes  glue stick ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: ART FROM THE EARTH  Materials: Product: Art that is created from nature and recorded by  camera, digital or Polaroid a photo and writing  journals or journal page  pencil Students will study Andy Goldsworthy, a British artist  tape who transforms nature into art, photographs it, and lets it  natural outdoor area, any season return to nature. They will go outside to create art from only nature. Photos and notes are then entered in a journal. (Works well at Twin Bears and similar areas.) ARCHITETURAL FACADES Materials: Product: A large black and white textural drawing of a  18" x 24" paper, white residential façade.  pens and markers, black assortment Students are introduced to three styles of residential architecture and given the task of categorizing architectural components and building materials. They will then design a visually interesting building facade.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 193 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

ARCHITECT MODELS: MY SITE Materials: Product: A 3-D model  9” x 11” construction paper, black  7” x 9” cardstock or construction This lesson encourages students to adhere to the paper, white philosophy of 6th grade level artist, ,  1/2” x 15” foam core/corrugated in that an architect must endeavor to create a relationship cardboard strips, white between a structure and the space that it occupies.  glue sticks Students will look at examples of architectural models.  scissors They will create a three-dimensional topographical map  pencils and then design a structure that is appropriate or justifiable for their building site. ATHLETES IN MOTION Materials: Product: A cut-paper and stamped collage using prepared  6” x 10” construction paper, black papers  glue  scissors Students will learn about the Arctic Winter Games and create an artwork that depicts one of the competitive indoor sports. Students will focus on what a body looks like when playing their chosen sport and use pre-cut flexible shapes to create the various body positions through a stamping technique.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 194 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

BAMBOO PAINTING Materials: Product: A large painting of bamboo  ink or tempera  water cups (two) Students will use correct posture (body and brush) and  bamboo water brushes four basic strokes to paint a bamboo composition.  paper towels  12" x 18" paper (three)  signature chop (optional)  egg lid (one, to aid against spills)

BIRCH TREES “DIORAM-ART” Materials: Product: Diorama  12” X 18” construction paper, black Students create a life-like Alaska birch diorama using  12” x 12” construction paper, chalk pastel elements in foreground, middle ground and black background layers that presents the illusion of depth.  9” x 12” construction paper: white, This lesson was inspired by the impressive dioramas at pink, light blue, dark blue and gray the Fairbanks’ Morris Thompson Cultural & Visitors  glue stick Center, the One Tree Project, and compelling research  ruler regarding dioramas and education.  scissors  pencil  chalk pastels: brown, black, white, green, yellow, orange and red BIRCH TREES WITH KES WOODWARD Materials: Product: A watercolor painting of birch trees  watercolor paints  bamboo brushes Students will look at birch tree paintings by Fairbanks  water cups artist Kesler Woodward. Then they will learn step-by-  3/4” wide masking tape step watercolor painting techniques as they compose and  2" wide masking tape paint birch trees.  scissors  watercolor paper  fine-tip ink pens, black BIRDS OF DIFFERENT FEATHERS Materials: Product: A bird collage with a message  construction paper, three-values of purple, green, and orange Students will participate in a tolerance activity before  glue sticks discussing a bird poster about living in balance and harmony with each other. Using the art elements, students will create  scissors their own unique bird collages with messages.  oil pastels

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 195 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

BLOWUPS Materials: Product: A circular detailed, brightly colored drawing  clear tape  9" x 9" construction paper, Students will select and recreate a detail of an artwork assorted colors (including white, with the aid of a viewfinder. earth-tone and neutral colors)  markers  crayons, oil pastels, or colored pencils (students’ choice) BOX DESIGN BY GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Materials: Product: A custom designed box with a specific color scheme  4-1/2” x 8” construction paper, and line design assorted dark and light colors  pens, black (three assorted sizes) Students will learn that one of the potential jobs of a graphic  scissors artist is to design custom boxes for many types of businesses.  glue

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 196 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

CALDER STABILES Materials: Product: A standing 3-D sculpture  construction paper  railroad board: black, blue and red Students will learn about the mobiles and stabiles created (cut so the grain in the board by Alexander Calder. They will make their own stabile allows a clean and easy fold) sculptures with railroad board using folding, slotting, and  metallic paper tabbing techniques.  telephone wire, colored  scissors  glue CALLIGRAPHY  This appreciation kit includes examples in a variety of calligraphy styles, background information, a set of calligraphy pens, and practice sheets to copy for student use.

CALLIGRAPHY JOURNEY Materials: Product: A wall hanging  6” x 18” construction paper, tan  12” yarn or string, earth-tone (per After being introduced to Catherine Louis’ book, Liu and student) the Bird, students will create three pieces of art based on  scissors her illustrations. Starting with a realistic interpretation of  glue sticks an image of their choosing, students will gradually  watercolor paints abstract their image resulting in a calligraphic symbol.  bamboo brushes  tempera paint, black CARLO-KENDALL’S MASK JOURNEY Materials: Product: 3D paper masks with embellishments and Lesson 1 (Scoring Our Masks) pigment  9” x 12” construction paper in various colors Students will learn about Kathleen Carlo-Kendall, a  liquid glue Koyukon Athabascan who is a contemporary wood carver  scissors and sculptor.  permanent markers Lesson 1: Students will create relief construction masks Lesson 2 (Embellishing Our Masks) using scoring techniques and paper engineering.  12” x 18” construction paper in various colors  embellishments: stickers, feathers, and brads  liquid glue

 scissors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 197 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

 permanent markers Lesson 2: Students will focus on adorning their relief construction paper masks by adding decorative details Lesson 3 (Masking Our Faces) and/or features.  7.5” x 11” watercolor paper  1” x 22” railroad board Lesson 3: Students will score watercolor paper to create  liquid glue 3D wearable masks. They will use permanent markers to  scissors create Oaxacan-style patterns before using watercolor  permanent markers paints to add pigment similar to Carlo-Kendall’s wood-  watercolor paints stained masks.

 water containers  1” sponge brushes  stapler  staples CARTOONING IN STAGES  Materials: Product: A cartoon character  pencils  ink pens, black Students will learn about cartooning, and then will  copier paper develop their own character(s) to make a comic strip.  12" x 18" construction paper Extra activities included. CELL FELTIES Materials: Product: Three-dimensional, single-cell organism  4” x 7” felt pieces, variety of colors  yarn, variety of colors; cut to Students will learn about the many interesting ways cells lengths for manageable sewing move, basic cell anatomy, and what differentiate plant and  beads and buttons, large enough for animals’ cells. Students will continue to create single- needles to pass through celled felt organisms embellished with buttons, yarn, and  substitution: use cut-up straws in beads, which are representative of cell organelles. place of beads and scrap felt instead of buttons

NOTE: Felt is available through the District Bid List CHARETTE: MIXED MEDIA MONOTYPES Materials: Product: Mixed-media monotype prints  8” x 11” construction paper, white  9” x 12” construction paper, black Students will be introduced to a series of mixed media  watercolor paints monotype prints by contemporary Alaska Native artist,  brushes Phillip Charette. After reviewing his work, students will  stencils be encouraged to develop a series of prints related to an  colored markers, thin and thick interest of their own. Students will be given a great deal of artistic freedom to address the following checklist:  crayons, white  create mixed media art,  masking tape

 glue sticks  develop a series of related monotypes,  try the chine-collé process, and  create a symbol that represents something important in a student’s life.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 198 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

CHUCK CLOSE: UP CLOSE Materials: Product: A Chuck Close-style grid painting  tempera cake, primary and secondary colors Students will look at the larger than life portraits of  tempera cake, white (one per Chuck Close, and how he painted square grids of color student) and shapes into exciting portraits. Students will paint  1/2” brushes, flat their own color study with grids and shapes, mixing light  water cups and dark values of color to create a shape within a shape.  14” x 14” paper, white  paper towels COLOR RELATIONSHIPS Materials: Product: A 16" x 16" color study of a detail  18" x 24" paper, white  tempera paints Students will review a color wheel: warm, cool,  1" easel brushes complementary, and analogous colors. Then, they will  paper towels use a viewfinder to find and enlarge a small part of an  water cups object. They will paint the drawing with their color  thick-tip markers, black choices. COMB DESIGNS Materials: Product: A designer hair comb  9" x 12" construction paper, assorted colors Students will design and construct a model for a new  scrap paper box comb, considering form and function.  glue  scissors  pencils  markers  toothpicks (15-25 per student)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 199 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

DOODLES & FORM Materials: Product: A greeting card with pencil-shaded forms  6” x 10” construction paper, white  5” x 4” construction paper, white Students will examine the Art Movement and  5-1/2” x 4-1/2” construction paper, the drawings of illustrator Chris Van Allsburg as their gray motivation for drawing. They will make value scales  5” x 4” construction paper, black with a pencil using five sequential changes to practice the  #2 pencils technique of shading. This will enable them to practice  glue sticks changing shapes to forms using the illusion of light,  scissors depth, and texture. The final design is made into a greeting card. DREAMING UP DRAGONS Materials: Product: A colorful paper dragon collage  12” x 18” construction paper, black and gray Students will look at pictures of dragons from different  9” x 6” construction paper, cultures, illustrators, and times. They will consider assorted colors expressions and moods of the dragons, and study body  9” x 12” construction paper, parts. Then they will build their own dragon in their own assorted colors way.  oil pastels  glue  scissors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 200 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

EGYPTIAN OBELISKS Materials: Product: A 3-D sculpture mounted on 2-D background  6” x 18” construction paper, white  5” x 17” construction paper, white Students will learn about obelisks (pillars of stone), an  6” x 18” construction paper, original Egyptian architectural feature that was placed in brown pairs within temple sites. They will use paper to create  tempera cakes, brown and blue their own three-dimensional obelisk and paints to create  thin-tip markers, black an environment for their piece. Last, they will write  paint, gold hieroglyphs on their obelisk to reflect their initials and birthday. EGYPTIAN SARCOPHAGUS Materials: Product: A sarcophagus cut-out designed with crayons  crayons, fat primary ones and metallic paper  12" x 18" paper, white  1" x 6" metallic paper Students will learn some of the reasons and processes  scissors leading to burial in the sarcophagus. They will then  glue design a full-body sarcophagus using symmetry. EMBOSSED CARDS Materials: Product: Embossed greeting cards  construction paper, white and assorted colors Students will look at embossed prints made from as early  colored chalk as the 15th century to present day. They will then design  tongue depressor their own embossed cards and embellish using colored  railroad board chalk. The cards are completed when the embossing is glued to colored folded construction paper that compliments the color scheme. ESCHER  In this appreciation kit, students will learn about M.C. Escher, an architect and illusionist who used mathematical structures in his art. Students will explore the concept of tessellations and symmetry. Activities for center and groups included.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 201 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

FAIRBANKS: BOOM OR BUST Materials: Product: Collage of complementary colors using shapes  construction paper, assorted sizes and words to depict the “Boom or Bust” economy  word sheet  newspaper Students will discuss the Boom or Bust economy of  scissors Fairbanks through the years. Working like a graphic  glue stick designer, they will make a poster using the elements of art to build a cut-paper collage depicting the positive/negative aspect of the Fairbanks economy. FELT ANIMAL MASKS Materials: Product: A design of an animal face in cut-felt  felt, assorted colors (two packages) Beginning with a description of public art and how it is  white glue commissioned, students will design an animal mask from  hole punchers photo references, simplify the shape, and cut it out of  9" x 12" construction paper, black felt. (optional) FLOWERS & RADIAL DESIGN  Materials: Product: A radial design of a drawing/painting  oil pastels  brushes Students will look at the many things around them, both  pencils natural and man-made, that have radial design. They will  rulers take a closer look at the radial design in flowers. Just like  scissors the flowers, they begin with a center shape and let the  9" x 12" construction paper, white flower grow as their ideas grow. They will finish with oil  paper towels pastels, watercolor, and contour cutting. FLOWERS WITH GEORGIA Materials: Product: A painting of an enlarged flower  oil pastels  watercolor paints Students will look at the flower paintings of Georgia  18” x 12” construction paper, O’Keeffe before they enlarge and paint a flower. black  12” x 12” construction paper, white  1/2” construction paper strips, colored  glue sticks

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 202 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

GESTURE FIGURE DRAWING Materials: Product: Cut-paper with painted gesture drawings of the  18" x 24" drawing paper, manila human figure or white  12" x 18" construction paper, dark Using gesture drawing, students will capture the figure in color (for mounting) action with quick sketches. They will work first from a  watercolor paints and then become the model themselves.  brushes Body proportions and basic shapes are discussed. The  water cups sketches will be finished when a little watercolor and  paper towels contoured cutting is added around the shapes.  scissors  glue stick

GREEK COLUMNS Materials: Product: A drawing of a stenciled column with an  16" width roller paper (one per original capital student)  oil pastels or markers, colored Students will study the classical period of Greek art as  column stencil (included) seen in the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens. They will then design a capital for a column. GRIDS & VALUES IN ART & MATH Materials: (Two Sessions) Product:  drawing pencils Day 1: A shaded value scale and arrangement of  isometric dot grid isometric cube drawings  erasers  scissors Day 2: A cooperative group enlargement of an M.C.  glue stick Escher print  9” x 12” construction paper, black  6” x 9” sulfite paper, white Students are introduced to the illusionary art of M.C. Escher. They will use hard and soft pencil leads to shade  36” x 46” butcher paper, white a five-step value scale and then use a dot grid to make isometric drawings of cubes. Grids are also used in the second session to make a cooperative enlargement of an Escher print.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 203 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

“H” IS FOR HEALTH Materials: Product: A black and white health-related poster  9” x 12” construction paper, white and black Students will become graphic designers by using type  8” x 11” construction paper, white and “type helpers” in creative and meaningful ways to and black convey visual messages that promote health. The young  glue sticks designers will grapple with fundamentals of good design  scissors through appreciation and use of the six principles of art.  pencils HELPING HANDS Materials: Product: A painting and/or poster  12” x 18” construction paper, white  6” x 18” construction paper, black This lesson involves students in creating a  pencils character/pattern developed from tracing their forearm  glue sticks and hand. Students will color wash and add creative  scissors details using Payons™. They will complete their “helping  permanent markers, black hand” project by writing a pledge of community service to  tempera paints, assorted colors be placed in their character’s fingers. (Students will need a clear desk and pencil).  1” brushes (for color wash)  brushes, thin/fine (size 3)  Payons™ HORSE STUDIES WITH DA VINCI & BUTTERFIELD  Materials: Product: A proportional horse  china markers  crayons Students will learn about Leonardo da Vinci, a  newsprint Renaissance artist, and his desire to make a 24-foot tall  texture boards horse from cast metal. They will be introduced to the  construction paper work of present day horse sculptor, Deborah Butterfield. Using circles, radius, and diameter as measurements, students will draw a horse in proportion. The form is created with rubbed texture on the horse. HUNDERTWASSER: ARCHITECT Materials: Product: A decorative door or window using colored  chisel-tip markers, assorted colors markers  9" x 12" construction paper, white  12" x 18" construction paper, Students will learn about artist and architect Friedrich black Hundertwasser as they design their own doors or  glue sticks windows in his style.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 204 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

INSECT DRAWINGS Materials: Product: A mounted black and white ink insect drawing  10" x 16" drawing paper, white from observation  12" x 18" construction paper, black Students will draw from observation producing a large  broad-tip marker, black marker drawing of an insect.

JACOB LAWRENCE ATHLETES Materials: Product: An abstract, two-color, cut-paper collage of  scissors people engaged in athletic games  glue sticks  chalk, white Students will use a cut-out gesture drawing of a figure to  9" x 12" construction paper, achieve Jacob Lawrence's distortions. assorted colors  12" x 18" construction paper, assorted colors JOURNALING WITH LEONARDO Materials: Product: Initials in block letters, using perspective to  individual copies of the journal, make them appear 3-D My Journey with Leonardo  pencil Students will learn about Leonardo da Vinci and then  ruler begin their own journals styled after his. They will make  block letters block letters three-dimensional by using one-point  scissors perspective. The journal is designed with many of  glue Leonardo’s ideas, which can be done in subsequent  paper, white lessons.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 205 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

KITSCH ART EYEGLASSES Materials: Product: Wearable glasses  6” x 18” and 4.5” x 6” construction paper: red, yellow, blue, green, Students will use an assortment of colored construction orange, violet, white and black papers, sequins, colored Cellophane, and glitter to create a  3” x 3” Cellophane™, assorted wearable pair of kitsch eyeglasses. They will be given the colors terminology to describe their eyeglasses design using art-  glitter related vocabulary. They will go on to answer questions  sequins, colored that relate to their glasses, develop a title (style) and price  glue sticks for their unique eyewear.  glue, white

LEONARDO’S ONE-POINT PERSPECTIVE Materials: Product: Geometric forms drawn in a one-point  pencil, sharpened perspective  colored pencils  ruler After studying how Leonardo da Vinci used one-point  glue stick perspective in The Last Supper, students will cut shapes  9" x 12" construction paper, white from construction paper and turn them into forms using  3" x 9" construction paper, the rules of one-point perspective. assorted colors  3" x 6" construction paper, assorted colors

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 206 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

“ME” IN POEM BOOK Materials: Product: An accordion-fold book  6” x 18” construction paper: red, yellow, blue, orange, green, violet, Students will create a basic two-color, accordion fold black and brown book. They will illustrate their book with a semi-abstract  6” x 4-1/2” railroad board, collage from prepared or scrap paper. The elements of assorted colors the collage symbolize aspects of students’ lives.  glue sticks Students will go on to develop a poem about themselves  scissors from a rich “well” of descriptive words. Leonardo da  old newspapers Vinci, sixth grade scientist and artist, is highlighted in a  scrap/prepared paper, color discussion culminating in viewing a “Me” Poem Book created from da Vinci’s perspective. METAL REPOUSSÉ Materials: Product: A small tooled, copper foil mask that is  Per class: mounted  40" copper foil, 34g  scissors Students will look at masks made of clay, copper,  newspaper bronze, and marble throughout history and design their  For mounting: own mask pins.  pin backs (option 1)  glue gun (option 1)  paper punch (option 2)  3" brads (option 2)  scrap railroad board (option 2) MIGRATION LINES Materials: Product: A painted collage of lines an animal makes as it  permanent markers, black migrates  watercolor paints  scissors Students will make a contour drawing of an Alaskan  glue animal and let movement lines follow behind as it  12” x 18” construction paper, migrates. They will then paint the spaces between the black lines as they make choices from color theory studies.  12” x 9” construction paper, white  pencils  erasers  rulers

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 207 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

MISSING MONA! Materials: Product: A book featuring collaged text. (It’s also a  9” x 12” construction paper, “magical” book that makes the Mona Lisa disappear!) variety of colors  3” x 9” construction paper, variety Students read an engaging nonfiction article about the of colors great Mona Lisa heist of 1911. They highlight answers to  3” x 4-1/2” construction paper, a series of self-selected, detective, comprehension variety of colors questions. Students go on to create a simple foldable  scissors book that features an image of the Mona Lisa on its  glue sticks double-page spread. When the covers are pulled, she  highlighters disappears! Students physically cut their response to questions out of the text and collage their questions and responses into their new book. MISSION: SPACE VOYAGER Materials: Product: A 3D sculpture of an imaginary space  9” x 12” construction paper, black exploration vehicle  glue stick  scissors Students will learn about NASA space missions and embark on an integrated lesson that involves designing, building, and displaying a small sculpture that represents an imaginary space exploration vehicle. This lesson models the STEAM approach to an integrated art lesson. MOBILES: OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IN BALANCE Materials: Product: Mobile featuring three-dimensional forms that  #1 size paper clips, 5 boxes of 100 relate to planets in our solar system  12” pipe cleaners: 200 (2 packs of 100) Students will create a mobile sculpture. After developing  8” plastic jumbo drinking straws: their mobile’s structure, students read non-fiction 200 (1/2 box of 400 from A&W descriptions of planets in our solar system, and then Wholesale) create three-dimensional forms from paper that relate to  2’ piece of string per student their understanding of the planets’ attributes. They  Glue-all® or white glue, 14 (one attach their planetary forms to their mobile in their solar between two) order, while simultaneously making constant adjustments  glue stick, one each to the many fulcrum points to help their sculpture  scissors balance and move.  paper strips/scraps, variety of colors (just tons!) MODIGLIANI ART APPRECIATION  This appreciation kit has historical information about Modigliani’s life, his style, and influences. There are center activities and suggestions for in-class projects.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 208 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

MOSAIC DESIGN: GREEK AND ROMAN Materials: Product: A mosaic border  1/2” x 9” paper strips, four colors (Example: light green, dark green, Students will study the history of Greek and Roman red and yellow or light blue, dark mosaics before creating their own mosaic border design. blue, orange and yellow or dark An emphasis is placed on contrast, line, and spacing as brown, medium brown, light qualities of a well-executed mosaic. brown, gray and white)  9” x 4” construction paper, black  10” x 5” construction paper, black  scissors  glue MT. MCKINLEY LANDSCAPES Materials: Product: A pastel landscape of Mt. McKinley  drawing paper  construction paper Students will learn the basics of drawing and color  pastels: orange, blue and white mixing as they create a pastel landscape of Mt.  pencils McKinley.  glue sticks MT. MCKINLEY: SYDNEY LAURENCE Materials: Product: A colored pencil watercolor painting of Mt.  watercolor paper McKinley  construction paper, black and pastel colors Students will look at the many Mt. McKinley paintings  watercolor pencils by Sydney Laurence as they hear about his life and the  #7 brushes struggles he encountered when painting. Students will be  water cups introduced to watercolor pencil drawing and painting  paper towels techniques, contour line, and value-contrast as they create their versions of Mt. McKinley. MUSICAL AND VISUAL RHYTHMS Materials: Product: Wall relief – 3D art with rhythm of  Oil pastels repeated elements.  Scissors  Glue sticks Students look at sculptural wall reliefs made  6” x 8” construction paper, green by New York artist Judy Pfaff. They & red observe how she uses the  4.5” x 12” world around her, including construction paper, music, to inspire her art. Rhythm is found assorted cool, in art and music, and is used in both to see warm, and neutral and feel movement. While concentrating colors on art elements, students create their own wall relief to hang.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 209 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

NEW WAYS OF USING COLOR  Materials: Product: A nonrepresentational painting (shapes of color  construction paper, white arranged in a pattern) from flowers or space.  tempera paint cakes: white, primary, and secondary colors Students will review color mixing and explore the color  watercolor brushes ideas of value, intensity, and quantity. They are  construction paper, assorted colors introduced to the idea of painting atmosphere and (for framing) nonrepresentational art through the work of African  glue or glue sticks American artist Alma Thomas. Looking at photographs  water cups of flowers and space, students will match the colors they  paper towels see by mixing paint. They will then arrange those colors in a pattern of shapes on their paper.  pencils

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 210 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

OBSERVE, QUESTIONS, & WRITE Materials: Product: A group collage creating the visual culture of  photocopied photos with questions the class  pencil  overhead reproductions of art Students will make detailed observations of a painting by asking questions, and will write a short story about a moment in time the artist has captured in the painting. Students will see the visual culture in the painting, and then draw an object or word representing what is important to them. OPEN DOORS TO DRAWING Materials (used throughout lesson) Product: Throughout this unit, students will focus on  pencils drawing doors  erasers  glue sticks Lesson 1 (Door #1): Students will use  photocopy paper simple straight lines, triangles and  construction paper, black rectangles as guidelines to draw doors that open toward them. While studying photos of British painter Charles Lesson 1 (Door #1) Hardaker’s images of doors, they students will practice Specific Materials for this lesson: identifying the positive space. A step-by-stop drawing  5-1/2” x 8-1/2” photocopy paper, cut page will support them with inventing creative ways of in half sketching their doors.  9” x 12” construction paper, black  7” x 10” construction paper, white and gray Lesson 2 (Door #2): Students will use rulers to create guidelines to help them draw doors Lesson 2 (Door #2) that open away from them. They continue to Specific Materials for this lesson: draw rectangular door frames using  rulers horizontal and vertical lines. A vanishing point will guide  8-1/2” x 11” photocopy paper (for their diagonal lines to create a trapezoid as the positive practice) space. They observe the triangles are above and below  9” x 12” construction paper, black (for the open door marking the negative space. Using a three- final) step value scale, students will shade their artwork using  7” x 10” construction paper, white (for shading techniques. final) Lesson 3 (Door#3): Students will learn to draw colorful Lesson 3 (Door #3) arched doors. They use basic shapes such as Specific Materials for this lesson: circles and rectangles as guidelines. In  5-1/2” x 8-1/2” photocopy paper, cut in half addition, they will use straight and curved  6” x 9” construction paper, black lines to add beautiful details. They will use  colored pencils color, as a study value, to show intensity to provide visual texture and shadows.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 211 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

PAINTING WITH THE ELEMENTS Materials: Product: Expressionistic paintings  tempera cakes, assortment of primary and secondary colors Students will discuss abstract expressionist artist Robert  1” wide bristle brushes Motherwell. They will also review the art elements. They  1” wide foam brushes will then paint in this style using tempera cakes.  2" wide foam brushes  tempera paint, black  12" x 18" construction paper, white  water cups PAPERMAKING  This appreciation kit contains a blender, screens, frames, other supplies and instructions to assist with papermaking.

PHILLIP CHARETTE: MASKS WITH VALUE Materials: Product: A paper mask that features wood textures and  9” x 12” construction paper (black, symbolic elements primary and secondary colors)  2-1/4” x 12” construction paper Students will be introduced to the contemporary (black, primary and secondary colors) sculptural work made by Alaska Native artist Phillip  6” x 4-1/2” construction paper (black, Charette. Students will learn how to create their own primary and secondary colors) two-sided, wood-textured mask augmented with personal  glue sticks symbols. In keeping with Charette’s work, students will  crayon sets, primary and secondary be asked to consider a value that their mask will imbue. colors  scissors  string (in loops) PLAY WITH PERSPECTIVE Materials: Product: A framed pencil drawing  tracing paper (one sheet per student)  regular classroom pencils (Note: Sixth grade artists will learn several artist ricks. One trick mechanical pencils can work but are will be fairly contemporary and the other will be about not ideal) 600 years old! Students will learn how to transfer images  8" x 11" construction paper, white from a printed source and accurately recreate the image  9" x 12" construction paper, black on a blank piece of paper. They will also learn about  glue sticks Renaissance artist Filippo Brunelleschi and his discovery  erasers of one-point perspective. Artists will combine the  tape (masking tape is good) transferring trick and the one-point perspective trick.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 212 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

PREHISTORIC CAVE ART Materials: Product: A torn paper and drawing to look like cave-wall  chalk: white, yellow and beige art  oil pastels, peach and brown  charcoal Students will study cave art of the Paleolithic period and  12” x 18” construction paper, then draw their own “cave-like art.” black and gray  12” x 9” construction paper: gray, manila and shades of brown

PRINTING TO THE BEAT OF YOUR OWN TUNE Materials (included in the kit): Product: A print inspired by musical notes and symbols  lesson plan  how-to movies on DVD Students will make beautiful prints inspired by the  inspirational posters (five) musical notes and symbols that they learn in 6th grade  example posters (two) general music class. They start by making three  wooden spoons (class set-for use thumbnail sketches and then develop a printing plate as barrens) based on their favorite design. Students learn about  brayers (four) fundamental printmaking skills, vocabulary, and tools,  take-home sheet/worksheet master and they are introduced to a very brief history of musical copy notation.

Materials (not included):  glue sticks  scissors  8” x 8” railroad board or cardstock (two per student)  9” x 12” construction paper, assorted colors  8” x 10” construction paper, black  printmaking inks, assorted colors (four choices) PUPPETS & JIM HENSON  Materials: Product: A paper puppet with a moving mouth  construction paper, assorted colors and sizes Students will develop their own puppet characters using  scissors ideas from puppeteer Jim Henson. They will learn the  glue difference between marionettes, puppets, and Muppets.  markers, black They will create a puppet with a moveable mouth and "introduce" their puppet to others.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 213 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

RIBBON ILLUSIONS Materials: Product: 3D oil pastel drawing of a ribbon.  scissors  glue stick Students will combine the concepts of math, science, and  pencils art while they learn about astronomer and mathematician  thin-tip, black marker August Ferdinand Mobius, along with one of the most  oil pastels popular illusionary artists, M.C. Escher.  6” x 9” construction paper, various Using analogous oil pastels, students draw colors ribbons showing depth and perspective  6” x 9” construction paper, white when they shade and highlight the curved lines.  6.5” x 9.5” construction paper,

black  4.25” x 5.5” white photocopy paper ROMAN BUST PORTRAITS Materials: Product: A 3D paper sculpture  12” x 18” construction paper, white Students will learn about the sculptured busts of ancient  9” x 12” construction paper, black Greece and Rome. Using paper sculpture techniques, they and white will create a bust sculpture of themselves, adding  glue stick embellishments as needed.  scissors ROUSSEAU’S RAINFOREST  Materials: Product: A 3D rainforest with a foreground, middle  2" x 22" railroad board ground, and background drawn with oil pastels  6" x 9" construction paper, assorted greens, blues and purples A discussion of Henri Rousseau’s style and rainforest  4-1/2 " x 6" construction paper, paintings introduces the lesson. Students will use oil dark green pastels to draw and blend colors of the rainforest flora.  3" x 9" construction paper, light Pieces are cut out and glued to make a three-dimensional brown construction.  oil pastels  scissors  glue

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 214 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

SCULPTURE PROPOSAL Materials: Product: 3D paper sculpture  scissors  glue sticks Students will be given the opportunity to see what it  5" x 5" railroad board/, would be like to develop a 3D proposal for a percent-for- any color art sculpture for a school. The lesson includes:  9" x 9" construction paper, black  grappling with project parameters (one per student  introduction to six types of triangles  9" x 12" construction paper (one  creating thumbnail sketches for planning pack of every color in your art purposes supply closet will do the trick)  introduction to and experimentation with paper  6" x 18" construction paper, white engineering techniques (one per student)  exploring and considering various color palettes  attention to craftsmanship  brainstorming creative titles for sculpture proposals

SHADING FORMS Materials: Product: Drawings of simple curved forms using chalk,  pencil charcoal, and light sources  charcoal Students will use pencil, charcoal, and white chalk to practice  chalk, white making a value scale going from white to gray to black. They  construction paper: black, white will draw simple, curved geometric forms such as the cylinder, and gray cone, and sphere. Light sources and shadows are considered, as they will learn to shade forms. SHIRTS WITH WORLD PATTERNS Materials: Product: A shirt designed with motifs from around the  12" x 18" construction paper, light world colors and white  paper pieces, small and colored Students will design and cut out a shirt. They will study  metallic paper motifs and patterns from around the world and then draw  thin-tip markers, colored a patterned design for their shirts.  thick-tip markers, colored  scissors  glue

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 215 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

SHOE DESIGN Materials: Product: An original shoe or boot design  large paper, white  markers, black and colored Students are introduced to master shoemaker Salvatore  paper cutter Ferragamo's philosophy of shoe comfort and design. Then, using their inventive imagination and foot template, they will create a shoe for a personal need. SHOREBIRDS: SENTINELS OF CHANGE Materials: Product: A 2D print  pencil  12” ruler Students will learn that shorebird populations are  oil pastels diminishing as a result of climate change. After  fine-tip marker, black discussion, they will react to this topic and develop  glue stick thumbnail sketches, a printing plate, and an oil-based  8” x 8” construction paper, white monoprint of a stylized shorebird.  8-1/4” x 8-1/4” construction paper, primary and secondary colors  9” x 9” construction paper, black SPLIT-IMAGE DRAWING Materials: Product: A face that is half-photograph and half-drawn  pencil  erasers Students will choose a copy of half a face and, while  ruler learning about drawing features, complete the other half of the face.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 216 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

TINWORK FRAMES Materials: Product: a tinwork frame on an easel  aluminum foil, heavy duty  pencils 1 Students will study the tinwork of New Mexico and  pens without ink create their own frame. The tooling is done with inkless  scissors pens as they learn the techniques of stamping and  Elmer's Glue™ embossing on tin. They will create their own repeated  4" x 6" construction paper, black patterns as they design the sides of their frames. Artists’  mat board, heavy reproductions are available for those without photos to frame.  photo or magazine picture  rulers TOOLS OF THE TRADE Materials: Product: Pencil drawing  colored pencils  pencils, regular Students will practice drawing cones, cylinders, and  glue sticks cross-contour shading. After developing confidence and  7" x 9" construction paper: tan, familiarity with these forms and gray and white techniques, students will go on  9" x 12" construction paper, black to make a drawing of a  rulers, 12" miniature still life composed of  crayons, ideally unused (three per crayons (essentially a series of student) cones and cylinders).

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 217 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

VAN GOGH ART APPRECIATION  This art appreciation kit introduces students to the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh. The focus is on his style and use of line and color. Appreciation activities are included.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 218 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP: WET-ON-WET  Materials: Product: A wet-on-wet watercolor painting over pencil  11" x 11" paper, white drawing  12" x 12" paper, black  watercolor paint Students will explore watercolor media through  brush observation of work of well-known painters, practicing  paper towels techniques, and creating paintings.  pencil  objects to draw  glue  drawing board

WRIGHT ANGLES Materials: Product: An abstract geometric art piece inspired by  pencils Frank Lloyd Wright  scissors  glue sticks Students will study how American architect Frank Lloyd  6” x 6” construction paper: black Wright incorporated his love of nature and geometry into and grey his many famous creations, and how they too can create  3” x 3” Post-it® Notes visually pleasing images. They will make connections with what they know about basic geometric shapes by applying some principles of design. They will also challenge their thinking when they create new images from existing architectural images.

WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD: TEXTURE Materials: Product: A colored architectural facade designed around  9" x 12" paper or scrap paper, one or more textured shapes white  12" x 18" paper, white (precut to Students will learn about Frank Lloyd Wright through 10" x 16" for mounting) four of his architectural standards as seen in Falling  colored pencils Water. Then, they will draw colored textural samples, cut  scissors out a favorite, and use it as the inspiration for a house  glue sticks facade design.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 219 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

WRIGHT ON! Materials: Product: A matted, labeled, and colorful  pencils Alaskan plant drawing using geometric  erasers shapes.  glue sticks  markers Students will be inspired by American  4 1/2” x 12” construction paper: architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s love of black, blue, magenta, green nature and geometry. They will make a  4” x 5” and 4”x 11” white leap from realistic to abstract art by viewing plant photocopy paper images, and then reducing them to their simplest geometric shapes using math templates and markers. WRIGHT PERSPECTIVE, THE Materials: Product: A cube-shaped anamorphic drawing  markers  pencils Students learned that Frank Lloyd Wright was an interior  scissors designer, which means he spent a lot of time at his  erasers drawing table. They used basic drawing tools, a straight  9”x 12” construction paper: white edge, and a pencil to learn to create an anamorphic  rulers perspective picture. Their illusion artwork may appear 2D until you look at it from a particular angle and it looks like it is 3D instead. WRIGHT’S STAINED GLASS WINDOWS Materials: Product: A stained glass window  6" x 12" construction paper, black  scissors Students will take a look at many homes Frank Lloyd  Cellophane™, assorted colors Wright designed to see how he incorporated nature and  transparent tape geometric designs into the whole house, including the stained glass windows, rugs, and furniture. Students will then design their own stained glass windows using fractions and geometric designs.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 220 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Sixth Grade

YUP’IK ANIMAL MASKS Materials: Product: A 3D paper animal mask  9" x 12" construction paper, assorted colors Students will take a brief look at a Siberian Yup’ik  6" x 9" construction paper, Village on St. Lawrence Island. Masks are used for assorted colors storytelling as they sing and dance about the animals  1" x 24" headbands important to their lives. Students will relate animal  staplers strengths to themselves as they choose the animal mask  oil pastels they wish to make.  scissors  glue YUP’IK ESKIMO DIORAMA Materials: Product: A diorama of the Yup’ik Eskimo lifestyle  construction paper, assorted sizes and colors Students will learn about the subsistence lifestyle of  2" x 22" railroad board, white Yup’ik Eskimo people. They will create a diorama using  glue stick oil pastels depicting winter or fall activities.  scissors  oil pastels  tape  thin-tip ink pen, black

ZENTANGLES Materials: Product: A drawing with marker patterns  6” x 8” construction paper, black  5” x 6-1/2” construction paper, After sharing some of their thoughts, students will white explore an innovative way to approach drawing called  9” x 9” tag board Zentangles. They will learn how to use different widths  fine-tip marker, black of marker and a blending tool to add some depth to their  medium-tip marker, black drawing. This pattern-based way of drawing builds  pencil confidence in young artists.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 221 2019 – 2020 Art Kit Catalog

Art Activities & Appreciation Kits

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 222 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Art Kit Order Assistance Sheet

Blue, bold-face font indicates a new kit.

Art Lines, Squiggles & Dots I am the Star Balancing Cactus Ladybug Colors Birch Trees of Me Monkey Business Busy Bodies My Funny Guy Cactus Practice My Good Luck Bag (revised) Caterpillars Become… Octo-Math Chef’s Salad Over, Under & Roundabout The Colorful Day Painted Elephants from India Dance Fans Pet Toys with a Purpose Dinosaur Fossils Proud as a Peacock Fields of Flowers See Through Colors Fish Prints & Patterns Snowflakes: No Two Alike Friendship Train, The Snowman at Night Hats with Lines Snowshoeing & the Arctic Winter Games Humpty Dumpty Becomes… Standing on Top of the World Hungry Hippos & Milton Bradley (revised)

Special education teachers are invited to use K/1 kits or others as appropriate.

— Art Appreciation Kits — — Art Trunks & Birds —

Nebulas: Birth of a Star (K-3) Alaska Native Art: Birds: Andy Goldsworthy: Art from Earth (4-6) Calligraphy (4-6) Painting Your Feelings: Franz Kline (K-3) - Athabascan (K-3) Cartooning in Stages (4-6) Papermaking (K-6) - Aleut (4) Discovering Color with Sam Francis (K-3) Plovers: A Nature Sketchbook (3-5) - Yup’ik Eskimo (5-6) Escher (4-6) Puppets & Jim Henson (3-6) - General Studies (K-6) Please contact the Art Center for Flowers & Radial Design (3-6) Van Gogh (2-6) availability Modigliani (2-6) Watercolor Workshop: Wet-On-Wet (4-6) Mt. McKinley Landscapes (2-6)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 223 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019

Special Education – Adaptive

ABSTRACT COLOR WHEELS Materials: Product: An abstract color wheel painting • construction paper, black and white Students will look at examples of art that are very real • tempera paint, primary colors and examples that are abstract. They will talk about • glue stick playing with art to make an interesting picture or • scissors composition. Using primary colors and white, they will “drag” the paint to make new colors and add shapes and patterns to complete their work. A COLOR BOOK FOR ME! Materials: Product: A decorated “lapbook” that can hold a • file folders, letter size sketchbook • pencil The book, A Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric Carle, will inspire students to inspire their own “chameleon creativity.” Students learn how to rub, trace and draw chameleons to decorate the cover of their lap-book. Students may add to the lap-book as a unit progresses. ANEMONES Materials: Product: A radial design painting of sea anemone  12" x 18" construction paper, colored Students will travel with Mr. L-19, art teacher robot, on the “Artship Centerprize” as he takes them on an exploration of  liquid tempera paint underwater life on planet Earth. They will focus on the radial designs of sea anemones and learn brush techniques in painting. Love those anemones! ANIMAL CHARACTER PUPPETS Materials: Product: Combined images of animals to create stick  tongue depressors puppets and act out stories on their own  crayons  glue Students will examine how often animals are visible in  scissors their world as in children’s books, television shows,  copies (template included) greeting cards, lunchboxes, etc. They will see that animals can be depicted in many ways. ART FROM THE BERRY PATCH Materials: Product: Pen/ink drawing/watercolor painting of a berry patch  watercolor sets  brushes, medium Students learn about artists and illustrators who have been inspired by berries! Edward Hofseth, Barbara Lavallee, Alice  watercolor paper Terstag, and Joanne Swanson are some from Alaska. Students  Sharpie™ Markers, Black will examine berry illustrations from Blueberries for Sal by  construction paper, for mounting Robert McCloskey and Berry Magic by Teri Sloat/Betty  toilet paper, thin-ply Huffmon. They will create a pen/ink drawing of berries and  water containers leaves with overlapping circles. Watercolor is then explored with warm and cool colors and texture.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 224 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Special Education – Adaptive

ART’S LINES, SQUIGGLES, & DOTS Materials: Product: An abstract primary colored drawing  crayons  7” x 7” construction paper, white Students will listen to the book Art, by Patrick  9” x 9” construction paper, black McDonnell, and try the variety of lines and colors used in and dark blue the illustrations. Students will create an abstract drawing  construction paper: any size, red with lines, squiggles and dots in bold primary colors. and yellow  glue sticks

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 225 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Special Education – Adaptive

BALANCING CATCUS Materials: Product: Paper model of a Prickly Pear cactus  9”x12” Construction Paper: black, salmon, orange or yellow, tan, Students learn about the Prickly Pear cactus plant. They dark green, medium green, light work on hand/eye coordination by creating a sculpture green, magenta, orange, yellow using a wooden balancing cactus toy. A paper model of  White tempera paint, liquid the sculpture is created using the same visual cues they  Cardboard, 1” x 3” pieces just learned. Texture (spines) are added using cardboard  Glue stick stamping.

BIRCH TREES OF ME Materials: Product: A hand and finger printed stand of birch trees  water-based paint: white, red, with torn paper underbrush yellow and green  sponge brushes (four or five) Seeing the forest for the trees! Students will learn that a  tissue paper, warm colors group of trees is called a stand and we especially look at local stands of birches before trying a new printmaking technique. The final product is a personal collage of prints and tissue paper. BUSYBODIES Materials: Product: A colorful, moveable, pipe cleaner person with  pipe cleaners beads as muscles  beads, assorted sizes  markers, railroad board or poster Students know that their bodies can move and groove but board even when you are perfectly still your body is very busy.  hole punch Basic body parts and body systems are talked about, and  glue students will create a paper and pipe-cleaner person to  3/4” round stickers (for color bend and move. coding)  1-3/4” x 1/2” file labels, rectangle size (bright colors work well)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 226 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Special Education – Adaptive

CACTUS PRACTICE Materials: Product: Printed barrel cactus on paper and soft cactus  Green tempera paint toy  Red tempera paint  Brown const. paper Students learn to draw a simple barrel cactus shape after  Paper plates reading the book Hug Me, a story about a lonely cactus named Phillipe. After their “cactus practice” they print a cactus using a balloon and tempera paint. Students are given their own soft cactus toy to hug. CATERPILLARS BECOME… Materials: Product: A board with a caterpillar and a butterfly  construction paper  railroad board Students will look at the process of metamorphosis from  tempera paint, washable egg to butterfly, seeing different shapes, colors, and  scissors symmetry. They will look at the symmetry of the butterfly, and then will make a caterpillar and a butterfly. Students will then mount them on a board with an egg. CHEF’S SALAD Materials: Product: A torn paper salad collage in a shiny metallic  construction paper, assorted colors bowl of green  tissue paper, assorted colors of A healthy dose of colors, shapes, and ABC’s all get green tossed in this lesson as students play chef. Inspired by  metallic paper Lois Ehlert’s book Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and  white glue Vegetables from A to Z, students will use torn paper and  washable paint, white and assorted sponge painting to create a textured filled chef salad. colors (at least three colors) COLORFUL DAY, THE Materials: Product: A character puppet and storybook  construction paper, black and white Students will look at the story of Cassie’s Colorful Day  markers by Faith Ringgold. They will create a colorful, character  glue puppet head and a storybook with a simple sequence to share aloud with their classmates.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 227 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Special Education – Adaptive

DANCE FANS Materials: Product: A dance fan with face or faces  tongue depressors  pre-cut circles Students will look at pictures of real native dance fans  paint (in sponge bottles) or and how they are decorated. They will make their own markers personal dance fan and dance with it.  tape (colored if available)  yarn, feathers, etc.  bells (one per student, optional) DINOSAUR FOSSILS Materials: Product: A textured dinosaur fossil collage  Super Dough™ Students will learn that much of what we know about  construction paper dinosaurs we know by studying their fossils. Through  washable paint, black fossils we know about dinosaur footprints, skin, and size.  glue, white In art today, we created our own fossils by imprinting model dinosaurs in Super Dough™ and investigating our imprints like a paleontologist.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 228 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Special Education – Adaptive

FIELDS OF FLOWERS Materials: Product: Field of flowers painting.  Fake flowers (to look at parts)  9” x 12” (for preschoolers) or 18” Students look at Impressionist paintings that have fields x 24” (for older students) of flowers. They name colors and basic parts of a flower. construction paper, white After putting sticky dots on the  9” x 12” with 12” x 18” frame - paper, students paint flowers around construction paper, assorted colors them using their brush in different  Colored sticky dots or use markers ways. They add stems, leaves, and  Liquid Tempera: yellow, orange, grass, and make their own field of red, blue, green, & other bright flowers. They sing their song and colors show their art to others while  1” foam brushes (easel brushes talking. will work if foam are not available)  Paper plates, small FISH PRINTS & PATTERNS WITH RAY TROLL Materials: Product: A fish print with oil pastel patterns  liquid tempera or washable paint  tissue paper Description: Students will learn about the fishy artist Ray  construction paper Troll and look at the wonderful patterns in his artwork.  glue sticks Students will then make a fish print and add lines and  oil pastels patterns with oil pastels. FRIENDSHIP TRAIN, THE Materials: Product: Train cars with students’ photos in the window,  construction paper, black linked in a mural  sidewalk chalk, colored  mural paper Students will look at and talk about trains. They will  picture copies of students create a train car with their own photo in the window.  scissors Each car will link together with all the others in a  glue colorful mural. They will learn to sing the Friends song  crayons or paint (Friends, Friends, Friends, 1-2-3, all my friends are here with me!)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 229 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Special Education – Adaptive

HAITIAN TAP-TAP BUSES Materials: Product: A brightly patterned bus collage  construction paper  white glue Students will learn about the country Haiti and one of  paper scraps (i.e. magazine, their main types of transportation, “Tap-Tap” (meaning newspaper, neon, metallic paper) quick-quick) buses. These elaborately decorated taxi-  oil pastels like rides attract business with how well they are painted and with the cheery Compas music they play. Students will make a cut-paper and oil pastel collage that is inspired by the culture of Haiti and this arty bus tradition. HATS WITH LINES Materials: Product: A paper hat painted with an exploration of lines,  18” x 18” paper, white then decorated with lots of folded lines, topped off with  watercolor paints or tempera cakes colored dots  brushes, large  paper towel Students will explore lines and line words. They will  water cup paint lines and then fold their painting into hats. They  staplers with staples will then decorate it with many folded lines and colored sticky dots. They will present their hat to others using descriptive words, as they are able. HUMPY DUMPTY BECOMES… Materials: Product: A torn paper watercolor collage  ribbon (for display only)  paperclips (for display only) Students will approach the classic nursery rhymes with  tag board, white (for display only) new eyes as they are challenged to creatively construct  9” x 6” construction paper, black something from Humpty’s pieces. Watercolors are used  1” to 2” torn paper pieces, white to give color to their collage and students will write or  liquid glue tell about their ideas.  watercolor paint sets HUNGRY HIPPOS & MILTON BRADLEY Materials: Product: 3D interactive hippopotamus puppet  scissors  paper plates, plain white Students learn about game innovator Milton Bradley and his  crayons, peeled company’s amazing games. They also learn that he was a big advocate of Kindergarten, and was one of the first people to  construction paper: black, white, & group crayons together for student use. He was also one of the red first people to get pans of water colors into  tissue paper, variety of colors classrooms and even wrote a book on it.  tongue depressors*  tape  stapler*

* Only for one version on the project.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 230 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Special Education – Adaptive

I AM THE STAR Materials: Product: A folded mobile with a star on top  railroad board (one sheet per seven students) Students will talk about why they are a “star,” listing  construction paper, assorted colors their strengths and things they do to be a good citizen.  glue They will look at the art of American artist Stuart Davis  scissors and examine many shapes. Students will make a mobile representing themselves with a star on the top!

LADYBUG COLORS Materials: Product: Construction paper ladybug displayed on a leaf  glue sticks or on a rainbow, crayon trail drawn on bright colorful  scissors paper.  black markers For the younger version: Students help Little Ladybug find sparkly boots in a  wiggly eyes rainbow of colors when they hear the story Colors with  construction paper: Ladybug. They learn that ladybugs are really beetles with o 1” circle, red many body parts, and creatures that love to eat aphids. o 2.5” x 9.5”, black Construction paper ladybugs are displayed on a leaf or on o 4.5” x 12”, red, orange, rainbow, crayon trail drawn on their colorful paper. yellow, green, blue, & violet Creativity, colors, choice, and counting For older/high ability students: are the focal points of this lesson.  Construction paper: o 4” x “4.5, red, orange, & blue o 2.5” x 9.5”, black o 2.5” & 4.25”, black (2 per student) o 1/8” x 2.5”, black o 6” x 9”, green  .75” x .75” white photo copy paper

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 231 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Special Education – Adaptive

MONKEY BUSINESS Materials: Product: 3D monkey swinging on a vine  10.5” x 13.5” construction paper: white Students use their fine motor skills to  9” x 12” construction paper: black link up toy monkeys in a chain, learning  6” x 12” construction paper: green a song to go along with the activity. (for vines), light and dark brown Then, they create monkeys from a  markers (large, colorful, 2 per variety of 3D supplies, and draw or add student) a paper vine to create a jungle habitat for  glue stick their swinging monkeys. MY FUNNY GUY Materials: Product: A funny “guy or gal” made by gluing pieces of  construction paper, assorted colors paper to a long mat board stick  glue or glue sticks  scissors (if appropriate) Students will look at Karel Appel clown artwork and discuss parts of the body. Using papers (pre-cut or they can cut), they will build a body and add big eyes. MY GOOD LUCK BAG Materials: Product: A felt drawstring pouch.  felt, assorted colors  scissors Students learn that Alaskan Natives, and many other  24” yarn, various colors cultures, make small pouches which are called amulet,  wooden beads medicine, or good luck bags. Student exercise their fine  pony beads motor skills by sewing yarn through slits in a circular  clear/masking piece of colorful felt. Then, they practice opening and tape closing their Good Luck Bags by pushing and pulling a  pen/pencil wooden bead attached to their drawstring. Special items are placed inside to wish upon.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 232 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Special Education – Adaptive

OCTO-MATH Materials Product: A small hanging sculpture of an octopus  school glue, white showing a textured secondary colored body with pipe-  texture tools (pencils, forks, etc.) cleaner and beaded tentacles  paper clips Students get hands-on with an underwater subject, the octopus. They learn interesting facts about the octopus and create a small sculpture based on some of their attributes. Students work with super dough and create a secondary color through mixing primary colors. They then add texture and patterns to their octopus sculptures and use the eight legs as opportunities to practice math skills. OVER, UNDER, & ROUNDABOUT Materials Product: A 3D playful class sculpture made of individually  railroad board designed and decorated lines  tempera paint, white Students will look at Stella’s reproduction identifying shapes  construction paper strips and colors. They will then cut shapes from strips and glue on  white glue long individual board. After stamping textures with white paint, they will work together to build a class sculpture.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 233 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Special Education – Adaptive

PAINTED ELEPHANTS FROM INDIA Materials: Product: Colorful painting of an elephant  10” x 12” construction paper, black  9” x 12” construction paper, assortment Student view photos of elephants that have been painted of colors in very colorful ways for the Elephant Festival in India.  8” x 10” construction paper, white Students engage in play using  liquid tempera paint: magenta, yellow, colorful elephant shaped blocks, and blue (any color of paint that can be learning the parts of an mixed together will work) elephant. Then, they use a  paper plates (1 per student) printmaking technique to make  paper for work mats their own colorful elephant from a foam template using paint and paintbrushes. PET TOYS WITH A PURPOSE Materials: Product: A fleeced Frisbee®-like pet toy  fleece fabric, one print and one solid Students will create simple fleece pet toys in bold colors  1-3/4” plastic (one per and patterns. Looping and tying skills are honed. These student), or jelly (three toys can be donated to the local animal shelter. per student) PROUD AS A PEACOCK Materials: Product: Students use paint and  9” x 9” construction paper: light paper to create a beautiful blue or light green, blues, greens, peacock with its feather fanned purples (for feathers) out.  liquid tempera paint: green, white, purple Students learn about India’s  glue stick national bird: the peacock! Students look at real peacock feathers and find colors and texture. Then, they use paint and paper to create a beautiful peacock with its feathers fanned out. A shiny head and of feathers finish off the project.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 234 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Special Education – Adaptive

SEE THROUGH COLORS Materials: Product: Overlapping shapes (faces, landscapes, etc.) and  9” x 12” construction paper, white colors.  9” x 12” construction paper, black (if want frames) Students explore and play with reusable, transparent  Black, thick markers colors. The artwork is non-permanent and is designed to  Paper towels (to focus on a sensory, artistic experience. Students will soak up water as it’s learn shapes and colors, and also experience what sprayed onto the happens when colors overlap or “mix.” A background play boards) drawing provides a context for creating faces, landscapes, etc. SNOWFLAKES: NO TWO ALIKE Materials: Product: An abstract snowflake print mounted with the  index weight paper (for circles) plate and print together  glue sticks  printing ink, white and silver Students will learn about William “Snowflake” Bentley  printing brayer (roller) who “discovered” the beauty and science of snowflakes.  construction paper They will then make, print, and mount a snowflake. SNOWMEN AT NIGHT Materials: Product: Painted snowman on a  paper plates paper plate  liquid tempera paint: blue and white  12” x 12” construction paper, black Through play, students explore basic  11” x 11” construction paper, blue physics using air as a propellant.  liquid glue Pom poms swoosh through tunnels  white crayon (optional) and up ramps looking very much like snowmen on a playground. After looking at photos of snowmen, students use the pomp poms as painting tools to make their own snowman. SNOWSHOEING & THE ARCTIC WINTER GAMES Materials: Product: Printed black frames, paper strip webbing, and  construction paper tissue paper snow make up this snowshoe collage  bright copy paper, cut in strips Students will design and learn about snowshoes. They  tissue paper, blue and white will create a bright artwork that incorporates printmaking  glue sticks and collage. Students will practice their cutting and  washable paint, black tearing skills producing a wintery scene with their own special snowshoes. They will also learn about how snowshoes work to keep us above the snow, their animal inspiration, their history in Alaska, and its role in the Arctic Winter Games.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 235 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019 Special Education – Adaptive

STANDING ON TOP OF THE WORLD Materials: Product: World with land, water, and “me”  3” x 5” construction paper, white and assorted colors Students will look at a globe, identify the land and water,  8” construction paper circles and then think about the top of the globe where Alaska is (approx.), light blue located. They will make their own globe by painting  blue paint water, cutting out land and ice, adding their selves to the  round brush top. Students will then share with the class and tell about  scissors their art.  glue  round stickers (for faces-optional)

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 236 Art Kit Catalog – revised July 2019