Halloween Cat Art Project

Here is another Halloween art project.   It's 3D with the cat sitting out from the pumpkin background.

Very easy to make and makes a nice display for those Halloween themed bulletin boards or at home.  Make a small one with the ground equal in size to the pumpkin and you have a pop up card.










MATERIALS REQUIRED:

- black cardstock
- wc paper (14x12 or so)
- pencil
- tempera disk paints
- glue
- scissors
- white pencil crayon
- templates, Cat BODY and Cat HEAD
- colored paper (optional)



PROCEDURE:

On your wc paper or heavy sketch paper fold up the bottom 2 inches.

Flatten out again and sketch out a pumpkin shape using the fold line as the bottom of the pumpkin.  You want the pumpkin to be as big as you can make it on that paper.

In the bottom 2 inches draw a few leaves keeping most of the bottom paper.

Using your tempera disk paint, liquid tempera or wc paint add color to your sketch.

Using the templates trace out the cat body and head onto black paper.  Use a white pencil crayon so you can see it.

Cut out.

Now you could use colored paper to make your eyes, nose, and inner ears or you can paint them on scrap wc paper.

Cut out and glue into place on your cat head.  Using that white pencil crayon again draw in the whiskers and mouth.

Following guidelines on the template fold body and head.

Turn cat head to the back and apply some glue on the lower part of the tab after the last fold line.

Stick it onto the back of your cat body so that the fold lines match up.

When your pumpkin background is dry cut it out.


Fold up that bottom 2 inches on the fold line you've already made.

Apply glue to the back of the cat and the bottom inch that is folded up.

Do not put any glue on the tail above the fold line or on the head.

Stick onto background matching the fold lines of the bottom 2 inches of the background and the bottom of the cat.

That's it!

Now that wasn't so hard was it.  If you find your cat sagging a bit from the background you can add an extra strip of posterboard along the bottom fold line in the back for extra support.











See you soon,

Halloween Inchies Part 2 and Giveaway Results

So this is part 2 of the "inchie" post and at the end I'll reveal the winner of the "How To Be The Best BubbleWriter In The World Ever" giveaway.

For the Spiderweb square I used a twistable white crayon as a resist. You can also use oil pastel. You draw in your spiderweb design on the white square (I know, I know, white on white is hard to see but if you angle it in the light you can see the sheen of the crayon).

Paint it with purple tempera and your spiderweb will instantly appear.

Draw in some spider legs with a sharpie and then add a blob of black paint for the spider.  With the kids I think I'll use a Q-tip to make the spider.

For the cat square I cut out a rounded triangle out of black paper and glued it on, used a sharpie to make the ears, cut out eyes from yellow paper and used the sharpie again to mark in the pupils.  Glue eyes on.  I used a white gel marker to make whiskers and then glued in a small yellow triangle.  For really young kids you could base it on basic shapes and have them pre cut.

For the group of ghosts square I painted the background purple.  I used some white labels and cut out some ghost shapes.  Stick onto your square and then draw in the eyes and mouths.

For the beetle, (Beetlejuice) square paint a oval and let dry.  Taking chalk or pastel, color around oval and smear.

Add some details with (you guessed it) a sharpie......man I should have bought stock in that company ...mod podge too!

For Frank I painted a square purple, let dry and then cut out a pocket shape from old green painted paper (it pays to have that painted paper stash!) .  Glue onto square.

Then I cut out a rectangle from black paper and cut a spiky hairline (with young kids those decorative scissors work great for this), glue on to googly eyes.  I also cut 2 little squares from my metal tape, you could use sequins or stickers.  Add a mouth and that one is done.

For the owl square I painted it orange and let dry.  Using my stamp pad I stamped a thumbprint.

Punched 2 eyes from white paper and glued those on.  Color in pupils with you know who (Mr. Sharpie)!

Add a few details (feet, wings, tuffs) and glue on a yellow beak.  I should of done 2 as there was room. 

  There you have it all 12 squares.  Inchie Twinchie mania is taking over the school.  If you set this up as a center in a corner of your room you will always have a free time activity ready to go.  I am cutting inchies by the hundreds for all the teachers.  Give each child a ziploc to store them as you go and in no time you'll have collections to put on display!

On to the giveaway......I had to do this draw the old fashioned way as I discovered I couldn't rely on Facebook to give me a timestamp for each entry over there, go figure.  So out of 108 total entries (comments, emails, likes) the winner is

Jane from Out of the Crayon Box who was the 15th comment on the blog and said:  

Awesome! Teaching an early appreciation of fonts! I am sure my 4th graders would be very motivated by this one. Count me in.

October 11, 2011 8:29 PM 

Congrats Jane! it is an awesome book and I know your students are going to love it.    Thanks everyone for entering and there are more book giveaways coming so please enter again.      That's it from me now, must return to school so grade 3 can finish painting those Batiks.  See you next week.

Halloween Inchies Part 1

Well I just can't seem to get enough of these inchies or in my case a "twinchie" as I make our squares at school 2" x 2", just easier for those little fingers.


Now normally I only do a 9 square composition but I threw in an extra row in case you don't want the "BOO". Remember each one of these squares can also be a large art project....you just might need to alter it a bit.


As always you can click on the picture to see larger.

I'm dividing this "How to" into 2 parts (it's just too big) so check back for Part 2.

I always start an "inchie' project by doodling out a plan.  Once I have an idea of what I want in the squares I fiddle with it to make them interesting to create.....it then goes thru the assembly line process at school where I'll change things based on supplies we have on hand or how independently the kids can manage the process.




MATERIALS REQUIRED:  Remember use whatever you have, these are just suggestions

- wax paper
- black and red sharpies
-repositional contact paper 
- 2" x 2" squares of wc paper or nice drawing/sketch paper
- tempera disk paint
- Black liquid tempera
- masking tape
- googly eyes
- black crayon
- colored paper
- glue
- white labels
- tissue paper
- buttons
- letter stamps and stamp pad
- white crayon or twistable

PROCEDURE: 

For the Mummy square I first took some masking tape, ripped off strips and stuck them onto the inchie.  Work on top of a piece of wax paper.

Using some watery black tempera (disk) paint over your square.

Wipe off the excess.

Trim off excess tape from edges, glue on 2 googly eyes, and draw in a mouth with a sharpie.

For the haunted house square first paint a background (graded wash) in stripes of color staring with yellow, to orange, to purple.  Let the colors mingle a bit.

When dry drop in a bead of black liquid tempera paint at the bottom.

Using an old credit card or gift card scrape the paint up creating a spooky looking building.  Add a bit of paint to the bottom edge for a horizon.

When dry you can cut out pieces of colored paper to glue on for windows.  Use a fine sharpie to add a nice roof line to your house as well as a tree.

This project is similar to the Halloween Silhouettes.

The pumpkin square has a purple background, just paint it in with some tempera disk and set aside to dry.

Take a piece of white paper and using a glue stick glue down strips of colored tissue.

Cut out a pumpkin shape and glue this on to your purple background when it has dried.

You can add a green stem.  Glue on 2 button eyes an a mouth.

The "B is for BAT" square is just a B stamp with little bats drawn in in sharpie.

For the eyeball square I cut out a sticker from repositional contact paper and stuck it to my square.

Paint yellow and let dry.  The contact paper resists the paint.

When dry remove sticker.

Paint in a green iris and black pupil.  Add some red wiggly lines for that "bloodshot" look.

For the other "O" I printed off some Halloween type words from the computer.

Glue inchie on to paper, I like to make mine titled.  Trim off excess.

Using a crayon make that other "O".

Well that's part 1 check back tomorrow for the "how to" on the rest of the squares.

You have until midnight tonight to enter the "How To Be The Best Bubble Writer In The World Ever" book.





See you tomorrow.