Children's Artwork Displayed
Child art from the Expressive Arts Outreach
Project will now be seen displayed on the monthly broadcasts of STARNETs
APPLES Magazine. The producer and director were so impressed with the samples
used on the September '99 broadcast, "Celebrate Children's Learning through
the Expressive Arts," they asked to keep some for display during future
broadcasts.
Software for Children to Try
Crayola Make a Masterpieceó Children
can explore art tools, visit famous museums, and create masterpieces.
Crayola Make a Masterpiece, published by IBM Corporation, takes children
of all ages on an exciting adventure. Scribble, the animated French artist,
guides users through a maze of animated, traditional, and wacky tools
and throws in ideas starters for creating masterpieces of their own.
The program also features a journal
highlighting famous artwork from the National Gallery of Art in Washington,
D.C. and the Heritage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. The journal contains
interesting information about some famous artists, art styles, and techniques.
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Children can use tools such as pencils, chalk, airbrushes, or oil paints
to draw. They can add stickers, stamps, and an unusual pattern to create
a masterpiece ready to hang in the Crayola Make a Masterpiece gallery.
Requirements include 16 MB of RAM, 10 MB hard disk space, 4x CD ROM drive,
and (naturally) a printer to print the new masterpieces! Macintosh users
need a Power PC, System 7.5 or later, and a color monitor. Other PC users
need a Pentium or better processor, Windows 95, SVGA monitor, and Windows
compatible sound card.
Portable Artwork Display
Are you looking for a way to make
a display stand for childrenís artwork in the classroom? Here are some
ideas to try:
- Purchase 2 or 3 inexpensive, light-weight
hollow core doors at a local Manards, Lowes, or any other home improvement
store. Use hinges to attach them together. They fold up easily and stand
when you open them at a slight angle. Your new are display area can
be painted, covered with cloth, cork board, or velcro strips.
- Make a display area like the one
above using doors; only substitute the hollow core doors for particle
board or ply wood. These can also be painted or covered with your choice
of material.
- Make a Kiosk Display Center
out of a large refrigerator box. Paint or cover with the same or similar
seen ideas above.
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Susan
Docherty (MacArthur Early Childhood Center) and the children in her classroom
have been investigating changes in leaves this fall; sorting leaves by
color and shape. Children then transformed this new knowledge when they
did leaf paintings. They experimented how to mix primary paint colors
to get the fall colors they wanted. The children found orange by mixing
red and yellow, purple by mixing red and blue, and of course brown when
all the colors mixed together.
The
children in Mary Teresa Kessler's classroom (MacArthur Early Childhood
Center) made apple mosaics. They spent a long time cutting snips and
strips or tearing "apple" colored construction paper before deciding
to glue them to form their apple shapes.