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Kieth Haring AKA my most favorite artist of all time!!

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hmm, look at my title, would it be "most favorite" or just "favorite" ???? The song: remember by john lennon - plastic ono band. btw, i didn't add the explosion at the end, it is actually in the song (for those of you who were wondering) i got a little obsession with Keith Haring ever since i went to an art museum and saw alot of his work.

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Create some beautiful sculptural figure art with kids based on the work of Alberto Giacometti! Simple to create yet so effective, an as a bonus it is a great way to teach about body structure and anatomy with young children.

I have long been a lover of Alberto Giacometti's iconic tall, thin figurative sculptures and have been lucky enough to have seen a few of them during my art history studies pre-teaching and pre-kids (aka when I was oh so much younger, sigh!) So it has long been on my wish list to try making our own version with the children, not out of his chosen material of bronze, of course, but simply using tin foil and tape.

Giacometti: Miniature Figures in bronze

We looked at Giacometti's sculptures in some of my art books and in online galleries and noticed that some were created on a tiny scale and others in larger than life size, so that you can actually walk around them and through them in a gallery setting. We decided to keep ours small enough to be able to use them like puppets for interactive play and storytelling.

Lady walking through a Giacometti exhibit

To begin we started rolling a wooden skewer in a piece of tin foil, to give a little structure and support to the figure. We left a couple of inches of foil at one end without the stick in it so that it could later be folded to create a head. Cakie was able to do this by herself and my role was just to give help with the tape and instructions where needed.

Next she folded over the top to create the base for a head, then we tore another couple of small pieces of foil and wrapped those around to bulk it up. Using 4 longer strips, she then folded them over to create the arms and legs. We looked at how Giacometti elongated the limbs and made them as long as possible. She turned out the feet and hands herself and then we simply stuck them to the torso using tape.

When she had finished the first one she immediately wanted to make another one so they could be friends! The second figure turned out to be a ballerina queen and she wanted to show her dancing and moving. This was a lovely opportunity to talk about how we move our limbs when dancing and Cakie showed me some of her ballet poses that she has learned and we were able to replicate those in her figure thanks to the parts being so flexible and easy to reposition! A great little lesson in anatomy and movement. I absolutely adore the resulting figure that she made!

I suggested sticking another skewer into the bottom part of the sculptures so that she cold hold and move them securely while playing, but these are not essential and don't add anything aesthetically to the overall look of the art work!

She then played with them and turned them into a king and queen who wanted to dance at a ball and fell in love with each other. I love the idea of interactive, story-telling art work SO much more than untouchable art behind a rope or glass in a gallery!

And here they are lying side by side together.

We also noticed how very similar in style these sculptures and Giacometti's are to this beautiful wooden sculpture in our home, from Zimbabwe in Africa! No doubt this type of art was a key influence to his own artistic development when he was alive.

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Giacometti Inspired Figure Sculptures - The Imagination Tree

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Create some beautiful sculptural figure art with kids based on the work of Alberto Giacometti! Simple to create yet so effective, an as a bonus it is a great way to teach about body structure and anatomy with young children.

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It can sometimes be a challenge to find affordable art lessons that are both creative and meaningful for middle school students.

Last week my student teacher showed me an art project she worked on at school: tin foil sculptures. We wanted to combine the elements of both Dance and Art so we decided that the tin foil person had to be in a dance shape.
Materials:

Tinfoil - one roll per 25 students

Newspaper (could also use plaster strips if allowed) for paper mache and to cover desks for easy clean up

Paper mache paste or wallpaper paste

Acrylic or Tempra Paint

Paint brushes, water containers, paint trays

Instructions:

Review `form`as an Element of Art

Review Dance shapes or movement forms (Twist, Bend, Stretch, Curve, Angle, Spin, Twirl)

Have students sketch out possible dance shapes, and get teacher approval before working with tinfoil

Give each student 1-1.5 feet of tinfoil

Make two cuts 5 inches deep in the top of the tinfoil

Make one cut at the bottom of the tinfoil 5 inches deep

Form a head from the middle piece at the top

Form two arms on either side of the head

Form the legs of tin foil person

Ensure the either one leg or arm is able to be glued to a piece of cardboard as a stand

Rip newspaper up into long thin strips (could also use plaster strips)

Put newspaper one piece at a time into paper mache glue and smooth it out around your tin foil person

Let dry for 24-48 hours then apply paint after a quick lesson on the colour wheel and colour selection

Once dry students can add features and details with a sharpie marker

This art lesson could be differentiated for various grade levels by making the shape and colour selection easier or more difficult.
I would also do this at the beginning of a school year as an introduction art piece. Students could create themselves and make the cardboard into something that represents them like a surfboard, skateboard, hockey stick etc.

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It can sometimes be a challenge to find affordable art lessons that are both creative and meaningful for middle school students. Last week my student teacher showed me an art project she worked on at school: tin foil sculptures.

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Original pipecleanermation movie by Liz Whelan.

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MOVEMENT AND RHYTHM
LINES AND PATTERNS
I learned about the artist Keith Haring.

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Welcome

HaringKids.com is a fun and safe place for children, their parents and teachers to explore the incredible art and fascinating life of Keith Haring.

The Keith Haring Foundation answers questions about Keith. You can read his bio. Learn his life story in his own words. View child-friendly examples of his artwork. Browse his books for children.

Lesson Plans

For parents and teachers.

The Keith Haring Lesson Plans offers Teachers, Parents, Students, and Keith Haring fans alike, resources for enriching, explorative lessons for all ages and fields of study.

We have gathered our lessons from education departments at Museums, from some of the staff members and close affiliates of the Keith Haring Foundation, and finally, from visitors just like you, submitting their projects to us.

Over 200 lesson plans and growing.

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HaringKids.com is a fun and safe place for children, their parents and teachers to explore the incredible art and fascinating life of Keith Haring. The Keith Haring Foundation answers questions about Keith. You can read his bio. Learn his life story in his own words. View child-friendly examples of his artwork.

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HOW MANY LINES CAN YOU THINK OF?

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The Lines Song | Art Songs | Scratch Garden

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WHY DO WE NEED MOVEMENT AND RHYTHM? (Think about connections to music, dance, gym, nature, and art

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I WILL BE ABLE TO CREATE AND IDENTIFY MOVEMENT AND RHYTHM.

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HOW MANY MOVEMENTS AND GESTURES DO YOU SEE?

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The Sid Shuffle - Ice Age: Continental Drift

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Notice the movement and rhythm of their noses!

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コップの中はモデル立ち/子うさぎのモフモフ癒し漫才🥕2 Rabbits 2 Cups cute

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Who was Keith Haring?
Can you see the movement in this artwork?

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Students created 3D sculptures inspired by Keith Haring to show movement. - created at http://animoto.com