K-5 Visual Art Guidelines for At-Home Learning

K-5 Visual Art Team, MSAD #75

Dear Families,

We can do a lot with basic materials--a pencil, some paper, our five senses, and our imagination! 

The visual arts teachers, Mr. McPherson, Ms. Brooks, Mrs. Arno, and Ms. Tombarelli

PART 1: MAKE SOME ART

Get permission from an adult before using any supplies or leaving the house! Note how you feel before and after making the art...do you feel better or worse? All the art will be different, be creative with what you have. Make a little or make a lot! It’s your choice.

Idea Prompt 1: Use 3-4 pieces of junk mail to make art

Idea Prompt 2: Draw things you can see: the view from a window, your hand, your foot, a toy,

Idea Prompt 3: Make a sculpture from recyclables or food packages that are empty (cereal boxes,    

                         frozen food boxes). How can you attach things creatively?

Idea Prompt 4: Draw a comic strip of your future life

Idea Prompt 5: Make art about your favorite song

Idea Prompt 6: Go for a walk and collect items you find, make art with them

Idea Prompt 7: Follow along a 'how to draw' video on Youtube,

Idea Prompt 8: Give yourself a super power for Art

Idea Prompt 9: Kids Hub has many excellent videos!

Idea Prompt 10: Take a digital landscape picture and send to your art teacher:

Bowdoin Central and Harpswell: arnoe@link75.org   Bowdoinham: tombarellin@link75.org    Wiliams Cone:  brooksro@link75.org   Woodside: mcphersonb@link75.org 

PART 2: WEBSITES FOR FAMILIES TO EXPLORE

Metropolitan Museum of Art  https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/metkids/videos

National Gallery of Art -  https://www.nga.gov/education/kids.html