OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Richmond

VISUAL ART: Week 1: Learning Intention: Learn how different shapes, colours and textures can be used to create an interesting artwork Success Criterion: Use natural objects to create a collage.

Nature Collage

Materials:

• A collection of leaves, flowers, twigs and bark • Glue • Paper

Directions: 1. Go outside into your back/front yard or to a nearby park. 2. Collect fallen leaves, flowers, twigs and bark from the ground. 3. After returning home experiment with placing different objects together on the

paper. Try to fill up the page as much as you can. 4. Once you have found a combination that you like, glue the leaves, flowers, twigs and

bark to your paper.

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Richmond

VISUAL ART: Week 2: Learning Intention: Learn how contrasting colours exaggerate each other. Success Criterion: Create an artwork using lines, shapes and contrasting colours

Stained Glass Candle Materials:

• Lead Pencil • Ruler • Paper • Paper • Coloured Pastels / Crayons / Pencils / Texters / Markers

Directions:

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Richmond

VISUAL ART: Week 3: Learning Intention: Learn how to imitate real life using recycled materials. Success Criterion: Use recycled materials to create an owl.

Toilet Paper Owl

Materials:

• Cardboard tube (empty toilet paper, paper towel roll) • Black Marker/Texter • Coloured Pastels / Crayons / Pencils / Texters / Markers / paint

Directions: 1. Fold each side (a half moon) of the top of the toilet paper roll until both sides meet. 2. Use your Black Marker or Texter to draw some big round owl eyes, a beak and any

other details you would like to add. 3. Add colour to your little owl friend using pencils, texters, paint or markers.

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Richmond

VISUAL ART: Week 4: Learning Intention: Learn how different shapes can be used together to create an animal. Success Criterion: Create 3D animal models using recycled materials.

3D Animals

Materials:

• Cardboard (Cereal Box, Packaging, etc.)

• Lead pencil • Scissors

• Coloured Pastels / Crayons / Pencils / Texters / Markers / paint

Directions: 1. Cut out the attached animal outlines (Husky and Polar Bear) 2. Use a pencil to trace around the different animal pieces onto some cardboard 3. Cut out the shapes from your cardboard 4. Get creative and colour your cardboard pieces and add faces 5. Put the pieces together to form your 3D animals!

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Richmond

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Richmond

VISUAL ART: Week 5: Learning Intention: Learn how to copy real life using a mouldable material Success Criterion: Re-create animals using play dough.

Playdough

Materials:

• 2 Cups of plain flour • 1 Cup of salt • 1 Tablespoon of oil • 1 Cup of water • 2 Drops of food colouring (optional)

Directions: 1. Mix the plain flour and salt together in a large mixing bowl. 2. Mix the water, oil and food colouring together in another bowl. 3. Add the wet ingredients to the large bowl and mix using a wooden spoon until everything is well combined.

4. Once it forms a dough, knead the mixture well with your hands. 5. If it is too wet, add a little more plain flour. If it is too dry and falling apart, add a little more water.

6. Get creative with your playdough! Try making a: - Kangaroo - Bird - Snake - Person

Storage: Keep your Playdough in a plastic container with a lid or wrapped in plastic wrap in the fridge.

• Wooden spoon

• Large mixing bowl • Small bowl • Cup measure

• Tablespoon measure

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Richmond

VISUAL ART: Week 6: Learning Intention: Follow step-by-step instructions to complete a process. Success Criterion: Create a hat using newspaper.

Newspaper Hat

Materials:

• A sheet of newspaper • Coloured Pastels / Crayons / Pencils / Texters / Markers / paint

Directions: 1. Follow the step in the image below to create your very own newspaper hat. 2. Decorate your new hat with pencils / texters / markers / paint

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Richmond

VISUAL ART: Week 7: Learning Intention: Use different techniques to imitate aging and wear. Success Criterion: Create a realistic looking treasure map.

Treasure Map

Materials:

• ½ Cup of Cold Coffee or Tea. • Paper • Markers / Texters • Hair Dryer (optional)

Directions: 1. Rip strips off the edges of your paper, make sure that it’s rough and not too neat. 2. Scrunch up the paper into a ball as tightly as you can 3. Unwrap the paper and flatten it back out 4. Put the paper in a cooking tray or on a plate 5. Pour the tea or coffee over the paper and swoosh it around using your hands so it

covers everything 6. Leave it to sit for 2 to 5 minutes. The longer you leave it, the darker it will get 7. Pour out the Tea or Coffee into the sink 8. Dry off the paper using the hairdryer or leave it to dry for a couple of hours 9. Use the marker to draw a big X somewhere on your map and a long winding trail of

dashes -------- leading to the X 10. Now add obstacles along the path to the treasure and extra details to your map.

Here are some examples, but get creative think of some of your own:

• Waterfalls of Doom • Serpent Pass • Skeleton Jungle • Loot Lake • Monster Rock • Slurpy Swamp

Did you Know - If you do not have Tea or Coffee you can mix up some dirt from outside with half a cup of water to create a muddy dye for your map!

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Richmond

VISUAL ART: Week 8: Learning Intention: Use diverse materials to create the figure of an animal. Success Criterion: Use natural objects to create an animal.

Leafy Animals

Materials:

• Leaves (different sizes, colours and shapes) • Glue • Paper • Something large, heavy and flat (Heavy book, Frying pan, etc.) • Paper Towel

Directions:

1. Go outside into your back/front yard or to a nearby park.

2. Collect fallen leaves from the ground. Try to find leaves that are a variety of different shapes, sizes and colours!

3. After returning home

experiment with placing the leaves on your paper, creating the shape of an animal (e.g. an elephant, kangaroo or bird).

4. Once you have found an animal

and combination of leaves that you like, glue the leaves to your paper.

5. When the glue has dried, cover

the artwork with paper towel and place a heavy flat object on top.

6. After a day or two take off the

object and your leafy animal will be nice and flat.

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Richmond

VISUAL ART: Week 9: Learning Intention: Copy a drawing symmetrically both using a grid and not using a grid. Success Criterion: Complete the two drawings as symmetrically as possible

Symmetrical Drawing

Materials:

• Lead pencil • Coloured Pastels / Crayons / Pencils / Texters / Markers / paint

Directions: 1. Fill in the missing half of the owl below.

2. Try to make it as similar as possible to the left half, using the grid as a reference.

3. Once finished, colour your owl and give it a name.

4. Now try copying the missing half of Mario.

5. There is no grid for this second picture so you will really need to take your time to

make sure that both sides are the same.

6. Colour in Mario and say “It’s a me, Mario!”

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Richmond

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Richmond

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Richmond

VISUAL ART: Week 10: Learning Intention: Use recycled objects to create artwork Success Criterion: Create a Cherry Blossom painting using the “stamp” technique.

Plastic Bottle Cherry Blossoms

Materials: • Paint brush (or your finger) • Paint (or Texters) • Paper plate or another flat container • Paper • Plastic bottle (Soft Drink or sparkling water)

Directions: 1. Start by painting a branch using black or

another dark coloured paint.

2. Paint long lines of paint with smaller lines coming off of them. These look even better if they’re not straight.

3. Let the paint dry.

4. Put some coloured paint onto your plate. Cherry Blossoms are light pink but you can use another colour if you would like.

5. Dip the bottom of your bottle into the paint

and then “stamp” it onto your paper around the branch. Make sure to dip the bottle back into the paint after each stamp so that there is lots of paint.

6. Add as many Cherry Blossoms to you branch

as you would like.