Z - 4 Ways

This week in my one-on-one art session we worked on flexibility and small variations. Our base for each project was the letter Z. I prepared a few sheets with a highlighted cut line or draw line.

 

 

Our first Z, we traced the draw line repeatedly with different markers (first hand-over-hand and then independently) to practice our line direction and lifting our arm of the table, as to make big line motions smoothly. Next, I directed to cut the two highlighted triangles on each side of the paper.

 

The next Z was created with masking tape. I cut and placed the pieces in the letter shape. Markers were then used to color all over in all the colors. Once we identified that the instructions had been met, by finding white space and naming the colors while comparing with our markers, we removed the tape.

 

The third Z used another prepared paper. I selected sheets of small stickers and instructed that they need to be placed inside the lines. Once the space was filled, glue and glitter were used to outline the letter.

 

Our fourth and final Z involved string pony beads on pipe cleaners. To give fingers a break from all the fine motor of beading, we hole punched the four corners of a piece of cardstock.

 

We threaded the ends of the pipe cleaners through the holes to form our letter.

 

 

To secure, I twisted the joining pipe cleaners together and taped all the ends with packaging tape to the back of the paper.

 

Sensory Art

This week's group art was student-led. Here are the supplies we had at our disposal:

I pre-selected pages from magazines that had large images of high interest objects, along with cardstock, tissue paper squares (that we had previously made by practicing our cutting skills), markers, stickers, white paint, glue, foam shapes, plastic lacing, hole punch, and scissors. 

Here are the masterpieces that were created!

I handed out the cardstock and the kids wrote their names on the back. We then flipped over our papers. The kids chose the magazine page they wanted to embellish. We put glue "all over" the back of the magazine page and adhered the cardstock. Each child identified and chose a foam block which we dipped into the paint and either stamped or smeared onto their page. I pinched four holes across and six holes down each side of the papers and the kids laced around the edges. They then finished by embellishing with the tissue paper squares and stickers.

This is the end of the spring semester. I'm gearing up for summer camp and many fun and interesting new sensory ideas!