Holiday and festive season crafts Having the opportunity to plan and strategize meaningful holiday and seasonal crafts, I was able to get hands on experience with the flow of lesson contents, distribution of roles and logistics.
Mid Autumn craft activity, August 2020 Making of a lantern using just paper, oil pastels and string. Students first sketch their design on the small piece of paper, then proceed to use oil pastels to colour and blend the scenery. Folding the paper in a zig-zag pattern, the students will then cut the corners of the paper and punch a hole at the top, tying a string to finish the craft project. A collective effort to display all lanterns made by each student, in the art studio
December holiday workshop, soft clay medium, December 2020
A holiday workshop split into 2 days, 1.5 hours each day. Students are exposed to basic character design and anatomy drawing for animals, with basic guidance by teachers as a facilitator. Children are able to visualize parts of the design based on the front and side views, building the animal figurines with soft clay as the main medium. Minute details include facial features and accessories, where students are able to further design more components after the completion of the main animal figurine.
Lesson practice papers Students that have difficulty following the speed of the class are given specialized exercises to bring home and attempt. Parents are advised to help out the younger students, or to supervise when help is needed. The purpose of giving extra practice to these students is to encourage the use of technical skills that was taught in class, to reinforce the methods used so that the students will become more used to it. This will allow them to refresh their memory and also allow them to move onto more difficult techniques instead of being stuck at the same method over and over again.
For ages 3-4, learning to draw shapes ranging from smaller to bigger sizes
For ages 4-5, learning to color shapes and staying within the boundaries, taking note of the smaller corners that need to be filled in. The bottom shows students how simple shapes can be used to form structures.
For ages 4-5, Building up the habit of using cross lines to draw facial features. Students are taught to use cross lines to locate the facial features of the character. With this practice, students are better able to observe and follow the drawings to replicate the same design above.
For ages 3-5, students who have difficulty visualizing shapes within structures are tasked to build items using simple shapes. Examples are given above and students will have to observe and replicate the same design. Students will be visually trained to see the shapes that make up the structure, and actively seek to do the same thing with household items around them.
For ages 5-6, students are exposed to the theory of warm and cool colours. Some students are still unfamiliar with the colour chart, so putting it to practice will allow them to become more sensitive to the warm and cool colours scheme, and also allowing them to hand pick their own colours while practicing at home with their parents. Students also practice their colouring techniques with this unique piece.
For ages 6-7, students are tasked to replicate the anatomy drawing on the left. They are to observe the features that are apparent, and transfer the information over to the right template. This challenges the understanding of body parts and where they connect correctly. Here, the front and side view are provided for practice.