"Creepy Carrot" Animations

I just love finding FUN books to use and incoporate into art lessons. This book was the perfect inspiration for creating our Green Screen Animation Videos.  This project, I have to admit took a ton of planning, but it was so worth it. I just get a kick out of all these great little artists working so hard to create their animations. 

Here's just a few of the steps we used to make this happen:

1. Read the book "The Creepy Carrot"
2. Drew our background - the bathroom scene I thought would be funny to reinact. We used charcoal pencils and grey drawing paper to stay with the BL&WH concept from the book.
3. Created our creepy carrots using polymer clay.

4. Photographed our backgrounds on the green screen boards using the iPad camera app.
5. Painted skewers for using to animate our carrrots. Just used scraps of fabric for the curtains.
6. Video'd the curtain and carrots being animated using the camera app on the iPad.

7. Using the app DoInk Green Screen, we put together our videos.

8. Uploaded them to my private YouTube account so I could print their QR Codes for them to scan and always have their animations.

Here's just a few examples of their final projects. You can click here to see one of the animated pieces. 

Student Example

Third Grade Bulletin Board Example

 

  February 2021 Newsletter!

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 January 2021 Newsletter!

January 2021 Newsletter

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"Grumpy Monkey" Portraits

I just love finding great books to teach with art lessons. And to top it off, this book is great when adding in emotions to artwork. When these are complete, they are absolutely hilarious and adorable. 

2nd Grade "Grumpy Monkey"

There are tons of "Read-A-Louds" on YouTube of this book. I of course always purchase the book and I read this aloud to my students. But have included a read-a-loud in my lesson. 

We discuss EMOTIONS and COLOR and how they can make a person feel when looking at art. I also like to introduce them to other works of art that portray emotions and we discuss them before starting this lesson. 

When designing art projects, I try to be creative with technique & medium. This one is fun because they CAN NOT use a paintbrush to paint with. The kids LOVE it!  

I love this little video of a student painting her artwork, lol:) 

Check out this lesson on my TPT shoppe:) "Art is My Jam"!

Grumpy Monkey Portraits TPT 

 

August 2020 "Back to School"  Newsletter!

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  Check out my NEW
Interactive Google Slides! 

Perfect for learning about "The Elements of Art"! This one features the Element of Art - LINE and includes drag and drop options, etc... It's both informational and interactive for students. Perfect for those using Google Classroom. 

You can find them in my TPT Shoppe by clicking here:

Elements of Art - LINE for Virtual/Distance Learning

 

Welcome to the 2020/2021 School Year "Virtual Style"

Soon we begin the 2020/2021 School Year and it's definately going to be a unique situtation. This will be my first year not being face-to-face with my amazing art students. My heart is heavy as I LOVE seeing all my students each and every day. But, I will be teaching ART...just VIRTUALLY and I'll get to seem them through google meet once a week so that's a huge plus. I'm hoping this will be short lived and we can be back in the classroom together soon. So making the best of this, I've created a ton of interactive and virtual art lessons. As I get them all complete, I'll post them for all to see. 

Here's one of many....my DIGITAL/INTERACTIVE "Welcome Letter" for parents with all the different links and information to hopefully make things easier. 

Art is My Jam! Parent Sheet