Fun Things to Do With Your High School Art Students in Free Time
Fine art Free Time Activities & Ice Breakers
"I'm finished, now what practise I practice?" is a frequent topic of discussion on the fine art education list serves. Below are suggestions from art educators all over the country.
FOR MANY GRADE LEVELS
From Marty Reid: Cartoon Drawer Add some of your own ideas.
From Barbara Rhodes: Bell Ringers, brusk lessons at the showtime or end of the period.
Advert From Michal Austin: List of Drawing Ideas Relieve the file and print your own to mail in your room. Add your own ideas for number 16 and 68.
I Twenty-four hours Project Ideas - Many levels
ELEMENTARY
Many of these activities are good for middle schoolhouse students, too.
From Lin Altman: When someone finishes early, I bank check their work to make sure they didn't rush through, and so they are allowed to "practice depict." I've institute that if I telephone call information technology "costless depict" they tend to not produce quality piece of work. I go on a large supply of photos from stock photography books and the kids (second-fifth) choice what they would like to work on. This is on going and the drawings are kept in the fine art room until finished. K through 1st get "depict starts."
"Draw Starts" - First, I demonstrate on the white lath. I choose a child to come and make a random marker on the board, then I make something out of information technology (i.e. an animal, face, etc.). We do this when at that place is extra time and the kids honey to stump me. Later they have the hang of it, I give the a piece of newspaper and I make the mark. They must elaborate and no snakes, worms or letters.
From Roberta Dunkel: I likewise do this but have used the term "free draw" but put a tag on information technology that it has to exist something in the room - not a rainbow (ho hum) or their proper name written over and over etc. They have many drawers of mag tear outs on animals, people in sports, landscapes etc. to use for research. I am a "saver" of all kinds so the classroom is a dandy place to store my "inquiry file". I will kickoff calling that "practice draw" - a much more "professional term". Also I have art history books to read and write paragraphs for those who e'er rush and have nothing to do but pester me and the kids in the grade. This "opportunity" seems to slow them down a bit.
From Barbara Rhodes: Beginning Assignment
• Take a piece of the large yellow paper at your table and fold it in half length-wise (two short ends run across). Run record down the short edges and fold information technology over onto the other side. Exist every bit neat as you can exist.
• On one side, write your name in large "fat" letters. These can be bubble-type, graffiti-type or whatsoever other type you like equally long every bit they are "fat."
• Begin filling in your name with TEXTURES and PATTERNS.
TEXTURES: things that have a "feel" to them or look similar they have a feel to them.
Textured items include things such as cotton balls, sand paper, brick, pebbles, feathers, animal skins, etc. I DON'T want you to actually glue items to your folder. I want you to draw textures.
PATTERNS: things that repeat over and over once more are considered patterns. Things such every bit stripes, checks, polka-dots, etc. Wallpaper patterns are as well good examples.
BE NEAT! DON'T Do Annihilation TO THE OTHER SIDE OF YOUR FOLDER----We Volition DO THAT TOGETHER IN Class!!!!
From Sandy Bacon: I also have drawing books available. I have some art games, puzzles and during are medieval lessons, wooden blocks for building castles; fifty-fifty the older kids loved this. I have loads of books in my art room library. If you have a computer, perhaps some students could piece of work with art software or cool interactive website. I institute a dandy one for Leonardo during our visit to the Renaissance. I too take a chore listing for kids if I demand aid. I as well have my archaeological dig site inquiry info, establish objects, fossil rubbing plates, existent fossils, magnifying drinking glass and little brushes (tons of stuff related to the dig) available for the kids to expect at and explore.
From Linda Forest: We call those days when they tin draw annihilation they desire all period long "free draw." My kids love those days, just I don't do it very often. I love to see what they practise when they are free to draw what they want, but some kids only don't have the motivation to stay decorated all period long, especially in 5th and 6th grade. It works best with younger kids, in my opinion. I have costless art days, rather than free draw days, I suppose, as I have that magnet sculpture game
From Linda Wood: (From a different post -some ideas repeated)- On those days when kids are finished early on, I have a lot of centers for them to work in if I can't become them to work further in the medium we are using. My favorite by far action is a huge box of metal scraps from the hardware shop, as well as 4 sets of a scrap metal sculpture set that I dumped in with the hardware store stuff... it'south a magnet sculpture
"Who? What? When? Where?" Game from Linda Woods: Some other matter that yous can have for your kids to do when finished is the "who what where" game. Cutting strips of paper in three different colors. My strips are pinkish, greenish, and imperial. My pink strips have nouns or subjects on them. The dark-green strips have activity. The purple strips have places or locations on them. Kids draw one of each colour strip to construct a wacky judgement. Then they describe the sentence.
For case:
Pinkish: A polka dotted penguin
Light-green: Square dancing with hippo
Purple: in a submarine
You can add adjectives to your noun choices, you can add together details to whatsoever of your choices to make it more fun.
So, a listing of pink choices might be:
A lazy cadger, A wild-eyed elephant, An affectionate alligator, A sleeping frog, etc.
A list of my light-green cards or strips might exist:
waltzing with a whippet, standing on his head, shaking off drops of water, eating a triple decker water ice cream cone, etc.
A list of regal choices might be:
on a cruise ship, At a baseball game, in a toy shop, on a beach at sunset, in your sleeping accommodation, at a summer camp, on a diving board, etc.
Kids love this, especially younger ones. Sometimes they merely want to make upward LONG strings of sentences and not draw anything. I always try to push button the drawing aspect of it. Some kids make a book of silly stuff. Another thing to do with this is to encourage detail. Kids tin add together anything else they wish to their drawing or use it as simply an idea starter and not even use all of the words in the sentence to draw their pictures. Some kids express mirth and then much at the silly sayings that they want to rush their drawings to keep making new combinations.
From Michal Austin: I have several centers for my elementary students - they are listed on my site nether Art Teachers' Pages.
From Michal's site: I take several unlike centers on my cart. I store these in plastic shoe boxes that students can accept back to their desks.
Stamping Centre: Contains an ink pad and several unlike stamps. Some are from cheap children's kits found at the dollar shop, some are higher quality. iv ½" ten 6" (11.5 x 15.25 cm) paper is included in box.
Collage Center: Various types newspaper, stickers, sequins, ribbons, etc. 1 ¼ oz. (3.7 cm) glue bottle and 4 ½x6" (eleven.5 x xv.25 cm) white Drawing Paper
Chalkboard Centre: Colored Chalk, Magic Rub Erasers
Markers Center: Assorted types of markers - Overwriters, tropical, stampers, etc. 4 ½x6" (11.5 x 15.25 cm) white newspaper included.
Origami Heart: half dozen" (xv.25 cm) square colored paper and origami books. Students may trade me for true origami paper after they have demonstrated mastery.
Imagination Station: Variety of coloring sheets such as Optical Illusions, Famous Artworks, etc.
Art Games: Art puzzles, Tangoes, Izzy, Compages WonderBoard, etc.
Art Toys: Mini Etch-a-Sketch, Magnetic faces (the ones with the confront enclosed in plastic and you add "hair" with the magnetic wand), optical illusion games (separate the rings type games) etc.
Art Library: Books on several topics: Variety of "How to Draw", Optical Illusion, Artists, I Spy, Related books of interest
Not shown: Texture Centre: Various textures for rubbing including sandpaper, screen, mesh, texture rubbing plates. 4 ½x6" (xi.5 x xv.25 cm) paper included.
Modeling Center: Plastilina Modeling Dirt, various tools including mini rolling pin, "Crayola" tool kit, plastic table cloth (approx. 2' [61 cm] square)
Art Games
Modern Art
Art Memo Game
Prof. Noggin'southward History of Fine art
Masterpiece, The Fine art Auction Game
From Tracey: I have the old tried and true "How to draw" book pile. I also have a pile of "Anti-coloring book" blazon worksheets ready. Cleaning for extra credit works with some kids (some of the extra-squirrelly students are wiz-bang cleaners/organizers). As well I'one thousand lucky enough to accept four computers in my classroom, so I employ the interactive Sanford Artedventure site or Painter half-dozen or Goo. The trick is to have something that is absorbing but non more interesting than the projection you are doing, so they won't rush through to get to the extra stuff.
From Susan on Long Island: I have a small tabular array in my room and a small bookcase nearby. Both are labeled "On-My-Ain". On the shelves are a wide variety of art activity books, art puzzles and games, not-firing dirt, books near famous artists, Drawing Newspaper
From Ann Gray: I accept many activities in my room that the students can practise when they are finished. They have to show me their project first and so that I can verify that they have completed the rubric that I made for that activity.
I have a laminated manila envelope with 60 ideas for drawings - a student may selection two without looking, and choose their favorite. Years ago, a teacher in another district gave u.s. another idea. I have 2 more than laminated manila envelopes. One has nouns, and one has very creative adjectives. A student picks i card from each, then has to illustrate the phrase. My favorite instance is a student years ago who drew the words "frightened pickle." He drew a large bumpy dill pickle with a frightened expression and brought it to show me. I asked him what it was frightened of. He added a menacing looking upright vacuum cleaner with a confront where the light is, and said that the pickle was afraid that the vacuum cleaner would suck him up! I have used these 2 envelopes when I was doing cartooning, likewise.
I have many drawing books that I have collected over my 21 years of teaching. At that place is always recyclable paper on a shelf nearby. THEY MAY NOT TRACE! I take 2 crates of activities that I believe use skills needed in art and across the curriculum. I have several puzzles that range from easy to more than difficult (I teach 1-v). I have several building sets: Zoobs, plastic straws with connectors, and shapes that connect on edges and in their centers. I have several sets of shapes that tin can be laid out to make a picture, and then a rubbing or a drawing can be made by copying the shapes. I take 2 tangram sets in plastic boxes that came with sets of cards to bear witness how to put the shapes together. I have two magnetic sculpture sets. And, the favorite of almost everyone, I have many bags of modeling clay. Three years ago one of our grade levels donated plastic tote trays with low edges that they no longer used. I have 20 of them, and the students must work within of them with the dirt.
All of my activities are divided up so that more than students tin can employ them (I usually take xl in a class at a time). I used to keep them in Ziploc bags, but they always tore and quit "zipping," so I'm trying plastic containers with lids that I got from the dollar shop this year. Occasionally, if one group finishes an activeness before the other groups in their grade level, we will have a day where we all use these activities.
A lot of these take taken me years to accumulate. I take a very small budget, so I have either purchased them myself, or used money from our PTA.
Alphabet Books From Susan Michael: (Elementary - centre school) The kids might bask creating alphabet books or number books for younger kids. I fabricated small journals out of regular Construction Paper
Origami - from Laurie Reber: (Unproblematic - eye school) I take found that kids love to do origami. I teach junior high school, then I am non sure how it would work with actually immature ones, merely if you had instructions with diagrams for very simple designs for the really immature ones and have the paper pre-cut, they can but take hold of the instructions/paper and have it dorsum to their table to work on it. I am having my students make nearly ix paper cranes each (volition be over 1800 total) and we are going to thread them onto fishing line and hang them at the entry to our school on World Peace Day. The cranes will be a visual reminder as they volition correspond the number of US soldier fatalities in Iraq. The number keeps rising, so my students work diligently to stand for each ane with their paper cranes.
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Heart SCHOOL
From Becky Thornton: I let mine do an actress credit replica of the art project (2D cartoon) that we have just done. They do this near viii ½ x 11" size. I give them extra credit and tape it in my lesson programme volume. It is prissy to have student examples there and they await good. Expert for those who are looking at plans!
From Beak Sechler: I usually have the student exercise some other drawing or painting either in the same consignment specifications or allow for a negotiated subject/medium choice provided their endeavor on the "finished early" piece was acceptable. I practise not let students to be off chore or practise their own thing instead of the assignment, if quality is not in their skill range, quantity usually is. I likewise explain that the fourth dimension immune for a project is for them to take full reward of, to do excellent piece of work.
From Robin Lea: I accept students create their ain Sketchbooks
From Heather Leal: I accept a option of how to draw books, some cartooning books and a couple of computers with a game - The Logical Journeying of the Zoombinis ( a cool game that teaches/reinforces logical thinking and math processes, but without any math that is obvious). They also employ it for cartoon and I have an sometime copy of Kid Pix that some relish - they retrieve it from elementary. I besides have lots of art books to await at. Usually if kids exercise have actress time, information technology is only 5 or 10 minutes, so they really enjoy looking at the fine art books. They likewise take sketchbooks to piece of work in and I usually post some kind of drawing thought for extra credit- like when we returned from our vacation (nosotros are twelvemonth round) the actress credit was to depict something they did on vacation OR describe something they wish they could have done on holiday. I don't have whatever centers that are messy or have materials that can exist ruined if I am not paying attention.
From Kara LiCausi: When the students finish projects early in my grade I allow them to use the calculator (Kid Pix and a diversity of art games from the web). At that place is also a list of sketchbook ideas posted in my room that they tin choose from... or they can draw whatever they like in their sketchbooks. A favorite is allowing them to make their ain little sketchbooks... I provide all the materials and go out boxes of neat chip materials for them to collage with. I also detect that Center School students are always very eager to aid the art teacher... then whenever I need help displaying or labeling artwork... they are always willing to take on the task! Nosotros make Reference Binders in the first of the year (as a homework assignment) where they have to make ten separate subject areas (such as flowers, cars, seascapes etc.) then that they have a constant source of inspiration for their work. When they cease early, the kids honey looking through magazines or printing pictures off the computer to add to their binders.
Collage Portrait From Alanna Tait: At the beginning of the semester, I make a large silhouette of each student past having them stand in front end of the lath while the overhead projector produces a cast shadow and I trace their profile on a big sail of paper. When there is actress time, the students make a collage of magazine pictures that represent them (IE. different foods, sports, expressions). They relish doing this and it works well for a quick fix for a substitute teacher.
From Year Dark-brown
A. Interview teachers regarding their favorite artist or creative endeavors. Make posters and mail around the edifice.
B. Create work that could be sold for fundraisers: greeting cards, wrapping paper, gift numberless, gift tags, etc. You could advertise the items for each season and take orders and/or sell items at the schoolhouse store.
C. Write books for primary age students that feature the students artwork and/or an artist exemplars piece of work.
D. Create a deck of Artist Trading Cards.
E. Create a computer graphics version of a piece of work completed. Scan the work in and use a reckoner graphics paint or Photoshop program.
F. Build in beginning, midpoint and end self cess activities.
Yard. Use a reflective periodical that would allow the learner to recollect about the learning objectives, how they volition arroyo the lesson.
H. Require thumbnail sketches and/or mini-models per projection.
I. Require medium test... creative play with a type of paint or drawing medium. Have the learner document in pictures and words what happens when using the medium.
J. Use WebQuest as a means of building knowledge on a theme, artist or motion.
K. Accept the learner interview an art exemplar. This volition build on the content delivered in course and offer a real world connectedness to the curriculum. For example I am planning a lesson where the learners will use egg tempera. Through and cyberspace search I continued with the artist Don Jusko. He has agreed to be an expert that my students can contact via email to ask questions about egg tempera and painting. If studying a dead creative person... have students write interview questions and other educatee do the research to answer them.
L. My son was a very active student and I suggested to his teachers that they let him to read in class material that related to what they were studying. We too asked that he be able to interview staff about their experiences with certain material he was studying. In our case we could accept learners ask other teachers who their favorite artist is or what fine art related activities do they participate in as an developed. The information gleaned from these activities could be used to publish a newsletter or a website or a serial of posters, like to the "READ" posters nosotros see in libraries. These activities would exist empowering to the learner and greatly advance the value of the visual arts program in your school and district.
See also Drawing Drawer and Drawing Ideas.
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HIGH School
Most high school teachers take sketchbook assignments the students piece of work on. Students write critiques of work completed or take research topics they are working on. Students generally have an idea what the adjacent project will be and move on to the planning stages for that project.
Independent Project for High School - Grace Hall
This is a project that I've washed for many many years. Information technology has proven to be a cracking way to go on kids interested, motivated, and on task the whole time they are in the art room. This is what my students work on when they complete their other assignments early on. This is a way of assuasive the student to make choices about what and how they create fine art. The assignment is given at the beginning of the year. They are assigned to do ii or more per term, the commencement one due at mid-term, the second at the final. Students are encouraged to work on this projection during any free time they have in my class, because I say they have no free time. If they do, then they take chosen to utilise time they could be working on their projection. There is besides a space on my rubric nearly using time wisely while in class. The Independent Projection takes care of all kinds of objectives! See the educatee solutions on Grace's Artsonia Site (link will take a while to load - well worth the look)
Altered Books - from Pete Lopeman
This is a good 'complimentary time during lesson' activity. Purchase a few old paperback novels. On the first page of the writing (not the title page or frontispiece) you, the teacher, pick out a couple of words on that folio from any lines which brand some sense and circle them. And so students colour/shade/crosshatch draw a flick around the words leaving them readable. The page should exist completely filled (apart from the few words chosen). The books must stay in class, and can be picked upwards by whatever student to piece of work on. Somewhen, the book is filled with drawings etc with oddly chosen words on each page. The piece of work can exist linked with Tom Phillips' piece of work 'A Humament'.
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