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Unplugged Project: Square

Jan 12th, 2009 by Alicia

This week’s Unplug Your Kids theme was square. I used this project from Art Projects for Kids as an inspiration and then printed out some graph paper with 1/2″ large squares here.

I gave each child a piece of graph paper and told them to draw a basic shape on it, fairly large. I said they could trace one of their hands (as they did on APFK) or do another basic shape. Then I told them to use the squares in any way they liked to color in the picture. I told them that the example one used 2 colors of colored pencils and colored in a diagonal half of each square, but that they could do anything they liked.

Jack and Victoria traced their hands to start and Annalee drew a flower. They all went in their own directions with what they did next, which is how I think it ought to be! I loved the creativity in each one’s final result!

I love the little robot guy on top!

Annalee went in a sort of fabulous quilt direction. And yes, this was the day of the magic marker freckles!

This took Victoria forever! I love how colorful it is.

Next week’s theme is balance.

Posted in art, challenges, Unplug Your Kids | 10 Comments

10 Responses to “Unplugged Project: Square”

on 12 Jan 2009 at 11:43 am1 Meg

They are beautiful! I love the age at the bottom…I should get into the habit of doing that.
on 12 Jan 2009 at 11:43 am2 Crescent Moon

WOW! Those are really pretty. I love all the colors.
on 12 Jan 2009 at 11:46 am3 gorgeous

Wow!! Annalee’s is so creative, Jack’s is super and I too, love the robot!!! Victoria’s is incredible. She always puts such a lot of detail and color into her art. I’m very impressed. They are all very talented and creative kids!! ;D Nice post!!

Mwah!!

xxxxxxx
on 12 Jan 2009 at 8:12 pm4 teaching tinytots

fun and pretty art work!
on 12 Jan 2009 at 8:36 pm5 Dayna

these are so neat. Your children are so creative!!
on 13 Jan 2009 at 6:09 am6 Chrissy

Those are amazing! They did a wonderful job!!
on 13 Jan 2009 at 6:14 am7 Chrissy

I forgot to ask you if that was regular graph paper.

I was thinking that this would be a great thing for my kiddos to do Friday.
on 13 Jan 2009 at 10:51 am8 Alicia

Nope, I printed the graph paper out online and made it larger than usual (a bit). The link is in the post (end of first paragraph). I planned to use regular graph paper but couldn’t find ours. I actually think the bigger squares made it easier for them though. Victoria never would have finished if she had to color tiny squares!
on 13 Jan 2009 at 6:57 pm9 Chrissy

I should of looked harder!!
on 16 Jan 2009 at 1:43 pm10 naomi

Wow I totally love these. I think my 6 year old would find it challenging but I want to try it myself! I used to love drawing patterns. they are all beautiful but the contrast in the last one is lovely.