Third Grade Art Videos and Links

Self Portrait Resources

Mrs. Banker's Weaving Videos

Click Here for Step 1: Warping Loom

Click Here for Step 2: Threading Needle and Starting to Weave

Click Here for Step 3: Connecting Yarn

Click Here for Step 4: Making a Flap

Click Here for Step 5: Taking Weaving Off Loom

Click Here for Step 6: Adding a Bead Button

Other Weaving Resources

Make your own loom from recycled cardboard or cereal box

Below is a video that shows how you can make your own loom our of recycled cardboard or cereal box.

Tapestry Weaving (weaving on one side of the loom)

Mixed Media Zoomed in View Videos

Step 1: CLICK HERE FOR PAINTING DAY 1 on ABSTRACT ART

STEP 2: CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO ON COMPLIMENTARY COLOR

STEP 3: CLICK HERE FOR ADDING OIL PASTEL TO PAINTINGS

Mixed Media Art with Mondrian

Piet Mondrian

Students identified the primary colors and geometric shapes in the paintings of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian.  We used similar color shapes and rectangles to make a collage.  Next, we built on our stamping skills from the last unit and added lines in a variety of directions by using cardboard scraps and black tempera.  Students learned that mixed media art is when artists use more than one type of art material in their work.

Student Artwork

Kente Cloth Collage

For the second day of making collages, Pre K looked at some kente cloths and learned how these are fabrics weaved together and originally worn by royalty in Africa.  We used similar patterns and shapes to make our own kente cloths, inspired by similar colors as well as geometric patterns and shapes used in theirs.  We continued to practice arranging our shapes by overlapping, spreading far apart, and touching, to create an interesting design.  The last step, was gluing them down to make them stick!

Traditional African Kente Cloth.

Weaving of a Kente Cloth.

Student Artwork

Balancing the Idea of Sculpture

Nancy Graves


Student Sculpture

Students examined artist Nancy Graves and discussed how her work appears to defy gravity, by looking as if it could fall over at any moment, while at the same time maintaining complete balance! Next, we learned about the three c's of sculpture, which are construction, carving, and casting and even watched a video clip of Nancy Graves in her art studio demonstrating a few of those techniques.  To start our own sculptures, we spent the first day exploring how we could create a sculpture that stands up, but appears to be imbalanced in one or more areas.  Many students realized they could hide where certain objects were being supported, as well as use strong wood glue to help with the construction. 

On the second day, students were able to bring in their own found objects from home to add a more personal touch to their work.  Our young artists also became inspired by Japanese artist Sayaka Ganz and how she, similar to Nancy Graves, uses found objects to construct her artwork with recycled kitchen tools. When it was ready to paint, we explored the color wheel.  Students were able to choose a primary color and a secondary color that are next to each other on the color wheel, to create a tertiary color, in addition to white on their sculpture.  Can you locate where you see a tertiary color?  We will give you a clue:  The six tertiary colors are red-orange,  yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet,  and red-violet.

Nancy Graves

Sayaka Ganz

Student Artwork

Assemblage Puppets

Kindergartners created people stick puppets inspired by the works of  the work of Paul Klee and In The Heart of the Beast. We learned that a puppet is a type of art that can be used in a performance to tell a story.   Students used different geometric shapes to form a human body or an animal and added different textured  and patterned papers.  Additionally, we discovered how texture is how something feels and thought carefully about which fabrics could help bring our puppets to life!

Building our puppets with shapes.

Shopping at the material store.

Paul Clay's son holding his father's puppets.

In the Heart of the Beast