Kandinsky's Circles is a wonderful inspiration piece. Here is a super easy art piece for the young child. It is great tracing and cutting practice.
METHOD: I made three sizes of circle tracers - large, medium and small. (I used round caps and such to make the tracers out of manila folders.) I had the children trace six circles of each size in six different colors. They cut out the circles and stacked them from largest to smallest. I told them to make sure each stack had different color circles. I let them find their own way to construct the piece. They used glue sticks.
This child built each stack, one at a time.
This child put all the large circles down first. Then the medium sized circles and so on!
Our inspiration piece: Kandinsky's Circles.
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ReplyDeleteThis is great!
I did this with 2nd and 3rd graders. We used oil pastels for the circles and then water colored each square a different color. They turned out beautifully.
ReplyDeleteLove this! B would have a great time doing this. I think we will try it today!
ReplyDelete@ Inspired Montessori - Love your projects! Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI used the same inspiration with my 4-6 year old art class and it is great. I prepped the quality paper with some light pencil scores to show the different boxes, then had the kids use different color pastels to practice drawing circles of various sizes and thickness. We used this as a great opportunity to discuss complimentary/ opposite colors (in ref. to the color wheel) as the kids chose which colors to use together for their watercolors which they used to fill in the sqaure, a la resist.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to try this during our first week of school, thanks for this idea!
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ReplyDeleteLove the colorful project. Can't wait to try this out!! Just found your blog and will definitely keep checking back!!
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I am going to do this lesson with my middle school special ed. students (Mod/severe that are in a life-skills class). They know colors, shapes, can trace, cut, glue/paste...I am interested in what they see in their work that is similar to Kandinsky's. Thanks so much for this inspiration!
ReplyDeleteGini - let me know how it goes and what they see in their work!
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