Adaptive Art Winter Self Portrait

Clay Pumpkins

Olympic Art Week

In adaptive art we focused on the Olympics for two weeks. We made the Olympic torch, gold medals, wreath crowns, and an American flag. To end our Olympic week we took an Olympian walk carrying/wearing all our art around the school. It was awesome!

Adaptive Robert Indiana Love

Jim Dine Woven Hearts

 

 

First graders learned about the artist Jim Dine through a Power Point Presentation. They viewed several of his paintings. They learned that Jim Dine loved to paint hearts and use bright colors in his paintings.

 

First graders learned how to draw a SYMMETRICAL heart by folding a square piece of paper in half and drawing half of a heart. Next they cut out the heart shape. They then created patterns around the heart shape using markers, and then added texture using a crayon and rubbing plate.

First graders then glued strips of black paper inside the heart shape. They then learned how to weave tissue paper through the black strips using the over and under technique. They did a great job!

Adaptive Jellyfish

Adaptive students learned all sorts of facts about jellyfish. We also watched a short video to see all the different types of jellyfish there are.
(*idea originated from Relentlessly fun, Deceptively Educational blog)

Dragons Starting with a line of yarn

Mummies and Candy Corn

Flying Pigs

I borrowed this art lesson from my friend over at Artolazzi! I needed one last fun project for my adaptive art class. So we made the flying pigs. They turned out so cute. And the kiddos did great with the paper mache part. A few of my kids are very sensory and hate touching sticky or wet things. It was so cool to see them try though, two of my boys just put their hands on top of mine or their aids to help paper mache. It was awesome to see them try and to adapt to the project.

Adaptive Fish Paintings

We used sponges for the background (1 class). And then rubber fish stamps for the fish prints (2nd class). The students painted the stamps and help rub the paper on top to get the print. Last step was to add a little sparkle by making bubbles:)

Fall Leaves Garland (Adaptive)

My adaptive art kids like to do calming art projects- beading, sewing, clay...stuff to really keep their hands busy. I found this idea on Pinterest, I just simplified it a little bit for my kiddos. I pre-cut all the leaves out of felt and then also cut two slits in each leaf. I used jumbo yarn for the string and tied/taped a pencil to one end as their "needle". They strung them together great, and have a festive fall project to hang up at home now! (I sent them home the same day, and forgot to take pictures of their actual work, but you get the idea:)

Adaptive Circle Paintings

This project is great for any little artist no matter what the skill level. My adaptive students loved this day in art. Each was given a sheet of paper that was the length of the table (I only have 5 students in my adaptive class). I had a whole table filled with cups of different colored paint. The only direction I gave them was to only paint circles to start. Every 3-4 minutes I'd give them a  new color. The last step I gave them was to use water color to fill in any of their white spots. They were so engaged! And it was so cool to see their personality shine through in the paintings: one student painted all his circles in solidly, one painted them all the exact same size, and of course there was one who was all over the place. It was amazing to watch!

Adaptive Fish Pond

When I do my adaptive lessons I like to do projects that incorporate layers. This way the projects last a couple of classes, and it always makes the artwork look better when we keep adding more details to it. On Day one we used paper mache glue and tissue paper to cover an 18x24 sheet of paper. I had cut out stencils of Koi Fish for my students to use. They used chalk pastels to color in the stencil shapes. Lastly I hot glued some google eyes on the fish.

Adaptive Names