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Art Activities
Here you can find art activities for all ages that students can do in their homes.
Andy Goldsworthy
This artist uses items from the great outdoors to create beautiful works of art.
Ask your students to use items from their backyard/front yard/street to create a piece of art they are proud of.
You can add onto this activity by asking students to incorporate symmetry, patterns, colours, and more.
Questions to use as prompts:
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How can we create art with nature?
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How can we use nature to tell a story?
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How can we express our feelings through nature art?
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Why might you choose one natural object over another?
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What is your art piece trying to say?
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What colours have you used and why? What are those colours saying to you?
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Can you find Goldsworthy type art in untouched nature?
http://www.artnet.com/artists/andy-goldsworthy/?type=photographs
Become the furniture...
This activity asks students to use their imagination and dramatic skills to become the furniture they use daily.
Ask students to choose a piece of furniture in their house, it can be anything! Have them first imagine what it would be like to be that piece of furniture. Then ask students to choose one of these follow up activities...
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Take a photo of yourself acting as the piece of furniture. What would your facial expression be? How would your body posture look?
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Create a small comic strip about what the piece of furniture goes through.
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Film a video of an event, or a day in the life of that piece of furniture. What interactions does it have? What is going through their mind?
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Write a story about the piece of furniture. How did it come to be in your home? What are it's favourite extra curricular activities?
Sound Mapping
This activity allows students to practice focusing on whats around them and interpreting sounds creatively.
Ask students to find a spot outside and sit down with a piece of paper and their choice of writing tool.
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Sit and close your eyes, listen to all the noises around you for about a minute. What can you hear? What do the noises sound like? Roaring, buzzing, humming...?
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With you writing tool and paper, sketch the sounds that you hear around you. Sketch where you hear them, and what the sounds might look like on paper.
This is a great exercise to centre oneself and calm down, and can be done the regular to practice self-regulation.
Pounded Flower Art
This is an activity that can be done by anyone at home. All you need is some soft stuff from nature, some paper, and something hard. Below is a link to how to do it with helpful tips. However, if your students to not have hammers, they could use anything that is hard.
Remind students to not hammer on any nice surfaces like the hardwood or the granite counters. Maybe take the pounding outside to the sidewalk.
To take this activity further, you can ask students to see what they can create, using this method as paint! With the natural colours provided by Mother Nature, what images can be made? Challenge your students to create a self-portrait, a beautiful BC landscape, or maybe their favourite animal!
Note: This would be a great mothers day activity to engage students in.
https://www.bhg.com/holidays/mothers-day/crafts/diy-pounded-flower-art/
Food Art...
That's right, you heard me, FOOD ART! The world is crazy so why not get crazy with our food. challenge students to either make ART with their food, or make art with their FOOD.
Making ART with your food challenges students to make strawberries roses, braided bread, and all that fancy stuff. Why make a sandwich when you could make a masterpiece!
Making art with FOOD challenges students to take their dinner, and create something totally different with it! How many peas does it take to build the Eiffel Tower? Can I draw my brothers face with Bbq sauce? Can I create a picturesque scene with my Matar Paneer?
