Kindergarten Visual Art Training

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Kindergarten Visual Art TrainingWolf Pup 101
International Wolf Center
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• For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and
  the strength of the wolf is the pack.
• - Rudyard Kipling

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and
  narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it
  sorely. Broad, wholesome, charitable views can
  not be acquired by vegetating in ones little
  corner of earth.
• - Mark Twain
• From Innocents Abroad, 1869

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Two Visual Art Trainings in 2009-2010

• September 23rd
• Kindergarten Level PLC with Amie Marquez
• February 9th
• Video-Conference International Wolf Center with
  Tyson Ledgerwood

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School Wide Art Show 2009-2010

• The winners of the individual school art shows
  will be framed and displayed at the Western
  Heritage Museum on May 8th 2010.

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• The word art, derived from an ancient
  Indo-European root that means to fit together,
  suggests as much. Art is about fitting things
  together words, images, objects, processes,
  thought, historical epochs.
• - Jeffrey J. Schnapp
• Director of Stanford Humanities Lab
• Stanford University

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Hour 1
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Hands On Classroom Lesson 1Forest Floor
Texture Painting

• Put your name on the back.
• Lay the brown tissue paper flat on the poster
  board.
• Paint watered down glue on top of it.
• Let dry.
• Cut out paw print.
• Glue the foot print on the brown background.
• Add leafs.
• Add rocks.
• Add snow.

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Hour 2
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Video-Conference

• Virtual Classroom Lesson
• Questions and Answers from Presenter
• Sign-up for Video-Conference in your classroom.

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Hour 3
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Hands On Classroom Lesson 2Totem Pole

• Day One
• Cut out the top shape.
• Cut out two circles.
• Paste your Eagles eyes.
• Draw and Color in your Eagles Beak
• Draw Feathers on his Wings.

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Hands On Classroom Lesson 2Totem Pole

• Day Two
• Cut out middle shape.
• Cut out two circles.
• Paste your Wolfs eyes.
• Draw and Color in your Wolfs nose and whiskers
  and ears and paws.

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Hands On Classroom Lesson 2Totem Pole

• Day Three
• Cut out the bottom shape.
• Cut out two circles.
• Paste your Bears eyes.
• Draw and Color in your Bears nose and whiskers
  and ears and paws.

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Hands On Classroom Lesson 2Totem Pole

• Day Four
• Put your name on the back on the long poster
  board strip.
• Glue it all together on your totem pole.

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Resource Information

• The International Wolf Center website has teacher
  resources at this link
• http//www.wolf.org/wolves/learn/educator/edu_mai
  n.asp

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• Art is the cleverness of Odysseus the intimate
  knowledge of materials in a sculpture by
  Renaissance master Benvenuto Cellini or a dress
  designed by Issey Miyake the inventive genius of
  a Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, or computer
  visionary Douglas Englebart the verbal craft in
  everything from an aphorism (Time is Money) to
  an oration (Four Score and seven years ago, our
  fathers brought forth on this continent a new
  nation) to a commercial slogan (Just Do It).
  
• In short, art isnt to be found only in galleries
  and museums it is woven into the warp and woof
  of an entire civilization.
• - Jeffrey J. Schnapp
• Director of Stanford Humanities Lab
• Stanford University

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• Art completes what nature cannot bring to
  finish.
• - Aristotle

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• Story time

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References

• Images are from the website of the International
  Wolf Center.