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Activity 8: Using Simple Shapes to Draw Animals

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Click  HERE  to see a video of how to draw more animals using shapes!   ¡Haga clic  AQUÍ para ver un video de cómo dibujar más animales usando formas geométricas! What other shape animals can you draw? ¿Qué otros animales puedes dibujar usando formas geométricas? Share your drawings with your teacher so we can post them to our online art gallery. Comparta sus dibujos con su maestro para que podamos publicarlos en nuestra galería de arte en  línea . Learn how to sing  The Shape Song ! ¡Aprende a cantar The Shape Song ! References: OKIDOKIDS GuruParents Light of Hope Education KidsTV123

Activity 7: Make Air-Dry Clay at Home

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We just began a lesson working with air-dry clay at school. I went to school and checked on your clay pieces, and they are safe and sound, waiting for your return. Did you know that you can make your own air-dry clay at home? Follow this simple recipe, and mix the ingredients well: Comenzamos una lección trabajando con arcilla seca al aire en la escuela. Fui a la escuela y revisé tus piezas de arcilla, y están a salvo, esperando tu regreso. ¿Sabías que puedes hacer arcilla en casa? Sigue esta receta simple y mezcla bien los ingredientes.  Después de crear tu animal, deja que la arcilla se seque al aire. Aquí hay un video sobre cómo hacer arcilla seca al aire en casa en español: Picture Gallery : Cute Clay Animals Art for Kids Clay Dogs Clay Art for Kids Elephants Clay Mice Make Cute Clay Animals : Make a menagerie of critters by sculpting just a few simple shapes. See the step-by-step instructions here to make an animal of your choice. Use

Activity 6: More Art Online Links to Explore

Thank you for sharing your artwork with me via email and Zoom! I love to see your work! Here is a guide to creative activities that you can do from home! Remember the The Save a Life Win a MacBook Contest ! Art Contests Museums Art Games Digital Art Art Education  Art at Home Saving Endangered Species  Google Arts & Culture: Virtual Museums Quick, Draw!  Just a Line Interactive Color Wheel  Daily Live Illustration Drawing   Sustainable Shipping  Online Tours: The Louvre  Mondrian Squares  Mandala Creator  Color Theory  Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems  National Fossil Day  The Museum of the World Autodraw Silk  KQED Art School  Imagineering in a Box Science without Borders Guggenheim Online Collection  Color   This is Sand The Met Flipgrid Tate at Home Impact of Conflict Museum of Natural History Kern   Create Comics Pintura Cassie Stephens Elementary Art  No Limits Foundation  Salvador Dali Muse

Activity 5: Andy Goldsworthy: Art & Nature

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                                                               Andy Goldsworthy MEET THE ARTIST:  Andy Goldsworthy is an artist from the United Kingdom who creates sculptures and land art! That means he creates artwork using natural materials like flowers, leaves, pine cones, stones, and twigs to create sculptures. He photographs his artwork and leaves the sculpture in nature! GRADES 3-5: I thought it would be fun to create art using natural items, since we have a beautiful landscape all around us and we don't have to be indoors to create art like Andy Goldsworthy. Andy Goldsworthy’s style of land art uses the elements of art by: creating with lines, shapes, positive and negative space, and radial balance. Here are some examples of Goldworthy's land artwork: POSITVE/NEGATIVE SPACE:     All of these photographs demonstrate positive and negative space. What does positive mean? What does negative mean? Looking at each example of land art, point out where the