Jackson Pollock, without the splatter!

It is important for our students to learn about American artists.  Jackson Pollock was one of the first artists that came to mind, but who really wants to set their kids loose with a paintbrush and permission to "splatter paint"?  My classes are only 30 minutes long, not quite enough time to clean up a splatter paint mess!  I found an idea to use marbles to create the splatter paint effect.  The results are much less messy and much more like the work of Pollock!

Here is the link to the Jackson Pollock Marble Lesson:

http://www.storyboardtoys.com/gallery/Jackson-Pollock-lesson-plan.htm

Kindergarten Monsters!

To inspire the imagination of my kindergarten students, I started a monster unit.  We started with two great monster books: There's a Nightmare in My Closet by Mercer Mayer and There Was an Old Monster by Rebecca, Adrian and Ed Emberley.  We have worked on drawing monsters, our bedrooms with nightmares in them, clay monsters, and below are shoe texture monsters!



Monster drawing: There Was an Old Monster