Carmen Lomas Garza Loteria Cards, Flint Hill ES, 12-13

Used with: Kindergarten - 3rd grade

Materials

1.   1 piece of Watercolor Paper 

2.   Black Crayons 

3.   Watercolor Set 

4.   Dish of Water to be shared among students 

5.   Handouts of images with Spanish words will be shared among students. 

Students can use their pencils to draw their designs. They can be quick drawings though so tell students not to go into too much detail. The line images on the handouts are pretty simple. Spanish Dictionaries are on the carts for students who would like to look up their own words for objects that are not on handouts. 

Kindergartners can focus on objects and not writing words. When the objects are finished being drawn in black crayon, students can do a watercolor wash over their objects. The crayon won’t smear. 

“Loteria” is a Mexican card game similar to Bingo. They are making  their cards by drawing two vertical lines and two horizontal lines crossing over the vertical ones, so making 9 rectangles on their paper. Rulers or straight edges may be used. They can draw objects of their choice. These are similar to the etchings Garza created for her own Loteria cards. 








2nd grade







3rd grade

Mondrian, DeStijl Painting, Flint Hill ES 12-13

The project is DeStijl Paintings made with 12 x 12 white paper, pencils, rulers, red, blue and yellow tempera paint, black construction paper strips and glue.

Each Student Gets:

1. 1 piece of newspaper. Volunteers please bring this to your session. This is to cover desk to prevent paint drips and so students have a base for applying glue to their black strips without getting glue on desks.
2. 1 piece of 12 x 12 white paper. One per student please.
3. Use own rulers or pass out from the cart
4. Use own pencils.
5. Distribute paint by color. Paint will be in gallon containers with pumps. One primary color per paper plate. Students will share paint. One yellow, red and blue set per 4 or 5 students.
6. Sponge brushes and Q-tips are used to apply color to their designs. The angular sponge brushes are shared, one goes with each color. No water will be distributed in class, so keep colors separated for each sponge brush that is used. Sponge brushes can be washed and dried with paper towel after your session is finished.
7. Distribute glue from gallon container on paper plates. Use glue sparingly. Kids can use Q-­tips to apply glue to back of black strips. Then they can be glued down on their designs 

Students start by creating a design with parallel and perpendicular lines with a ruler and pencil. This can be as intricate or simple as they’d like. For younger grades we recommend a simple design with fewer criss-crossing lines. Once design is set, students can decide what rectangles and squares to fill in with the primary color paint. A little paint goes a long way so PLEASE USE PAINT SPARINGLY. Once rectangles and squares are filled in, students can start adding the black strips. They may have to cut the strips to different lengths to fit their design. Hair dryers will be on the cart if you think they need them, but we did not wait for our paint to dry before gluing the strips when creating the samples.

Japanese Art, Shoji Screen, Flint Hill ES 12-13

The project for this month is Shoji Screens made with rice paper, craft sticks, glue, tempera paint, ink pad and rubber stamps. In traditional Japanese architecture, a shōji (障子?) is a door, window or room divider consisting of translucent paper over a frame of wood which holds together a lattice of wood or bamboo.  

Hint:  Paint goes on the ROUGH matte finish side of the rice paper.  DO NOT USE PENCIL ON RICE PAPER. Paint and stamps only. 

Hint for Grades K­‐2:  Volunteers should pre-­glue the craft sticks and string onto front of 

rice paper at least a day before your class session and bring in already assembled. 

For  Higher Grades: 

1. Hand out scrap paper. Practice a design in pencil on scrap paper. Give handouts of Japanese writing and stamp signature designs to help them decide on a design. (This step could be for K-­‐2 as well) 
2. Hand out Manila Folders, Rice Paper, Craft Sticks, String, Plates of Glue, Q-tips  
3. Use folder to work on top of. Have students glue craft sticks on the front oftop and bottom sides of rice paper. Sandwich string between paper and craft stick at the top.
4. When students decide on a signature stamp they’d like to use, have them bring their rice paper on top of folder to stamp station. We found that rubbing the stamp on the stamp pad gives even ink coverage on the stamp 
5. Pump black tempera paint onto plates. Hand out brushes. Have groups of students share paint to do their black calligraphy drawing. 
6. Collect manila folders and put back on cart.  Let screens dry on corner of desk or a place in the classroom that the teacher designates 

These finished Shoji screens will be hung on the windows inside the cafeteria and outside in the hallway for Grace Art night in May. They are inspired by Japanese black ink paintings with a red signature stamp. Have children work out a design on scrap paper before they start if they’d like. Some Japanese paintings are considered poetry and some of the stamps and images can work together to create a poem. Original Japanese works like this were created on silk, where you could not erase the ink, and much thought was put into placement of the images on the silk canvas before the piece of art was started. We have two sets of stamps, one for each cart. There are 13 stamps in each set. Set up a stamp station and have kids bring up their shoji screen on the manila folder to the station. Finish by having students paint an image with black tempera paint. 

Chops make from erasers.