Creative Kids Summer Class: Colors, Lines, and Shapes

Each day of this year's art play summer class, we focused on a basic element of art: colors, lines, and shapes. I'll do a few more in-depth posts about some of our bigger projects, and will highlight some of the ways that we played with art in this post.

Colors

We read a book about a Black and White Factory, and explored adding colors to these black and white designs, as well as through this fun invitation to create with colored glue. 

We also played a pass-the-art game (similar to musical chairs, except when the music stops you pass your art to the next person and they add onto it). It was the perfect game to try out my new set of Kwik Stix. These little paint sticks are AWESOME. Bright colors, quick drying, and smooth writing. Great for pencil grip practice, too! I just love how these turned out.

Lines

On the second day we thought about lines, and used print making and free drawing to explore making and extending lines. 

We also read a fun book called Ish, and made some ish-inspired drawings with marker and watercolor.

Shapes

On the last day our focus was shapes. We thought about how lines can make shapes, and how we can cut, tear, and arrange shapes to form pictures in art. ---> (My favorite book for exploring shape manipulation is Perfect Square) 

We had a really fun week! Links will be up soon for some of our other projects:

Outdoor Art

Color Factory Art

Wild Color Art

Shape Collage Art