One of my fabulous colleagues here gave me many many many bags of "cotton-tipped applicators", which are 6" thin wooden sticks with a tight cotton swab on the end. PERFECT for dot painting.
I did not give too much instruction for these, just a bit of background info on Australian Aboriginal dot art with a few pictures from Google Images as visual aides. Then they each got a handful of swabs and went to work. It was their last class of the year and they only had 45 minutes (less after instruction), so they were free to work without any real guidance from me. Most did not finish, but I posted some that were done (or nearly done...)
I think they did a lovely job! Check some out...
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| Love this one! She worked so hard!! |
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| This is a volcano! Nice! |
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| This was my sample work! |
What a great job your students did with Aboriginal dot art! It takes a lot of patience to create these.
ReplyDeleteOutstanding artwork from your students.
ReplyDeleteThe colors and patterns are amazing.
I agree with Mary that this project was a test in patience for your second graders.
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By the way, this is an ambitious lesson for last class of the year! We usually play Color and Shape Bingo, scrub tables, sort materials, and do general all-purpose cleanup. If we do artwork, it's something using leftover materials.