Week 3

Year 3 Visual Arts Activity

As previously mentioned in my blog Mr Sheedy and myself are organising sketch books for each of the students to use during art sessions.  Please encourage your son or daughter to use it and to draw, sketch or design any of the images they see or enjoy creating at home, inside, outside in the backyard at the local park etc.  I look forward to seeing these pictures please share them with me via email or a google doc if you can.

As children are learning about the environment and animals in their native habitats for their inquiry unit, I thought it would be appropriate for them to continue to learn and make links during visual art sessions.

Before your art session begins at home discover and gather information about what it is that your child already knows about the environment, animals and the habitats that these animals come from?

Please record your child’s responses and share them with me.  Now have children choose an animal that is of particular interest to them.  Let’s make and create an animal and we can design a habitat that they live in.

You might want to use and/or draw a stencil of your prefered animal in the illustration below it shows to have 2 animals and the background is the use of a cardboard box.  You might also want to use a tissue box cut out the outside and create a background.  There are lots of different ways to create an animal habitat.

Here are examples of a couple of different ways you can make and create your own animal habitats.  I can’t wait to see yours so please share them with me.

I have shared a video of Mr Maker and how he makes and creates animals just to give you an idea of how you might want to create an animal for your habitat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3yd0zJiLXg

When you have finished the activity with your child please share and upload habitat and any responses, understandings and reflections to do with the activity.

 

*Please enter the Zart art competition you just never know your entry might be the one that wins!

https://www.zartart.com.au/zartstatic/page/home-art-competition