MONDAY MADNESS

ANIMAL ART!?!? OR IS IT WORD ART?!?! OR IS IT BOTH?!?!
Stretch your imagination today and draw your favorite animal in a new way.
  • you are going to draw the word in the shape of you animal OR Use the animal to spell out the word
    • ​Use a piece of 8.5 X 11 printer paper
    • Color is optional
  • Did you ever watch word world as a kid? If so it's kind of like that! Click here for a short video
    • ​Don't spend too much time watching the video :)
  • See the examples below for more inspiration. 
  • Remember to stretch your imagination. 
    • ​You won't receive credit if your drawing looks like something from the internet
    • The example are inspirations only! Don't copy!
  • Have fun and enjoy the process
  • You should turn these in at the end of class, even if you don't finish completely
Be sure you do multiple letters! Spell out the whole animal name or do multiple animals with the first letter (like the above example).
GRATITUDE!! There is nothing better than brightening someone's day!!
To continue our Colored Pencil Unit, today you are going to make a thank you card or Locker "tag".
  • It can be for a friend, teacher, parent, Just make it for someone else and preferably not in the class
  • Use the Black paper in the front that is pre-cut.
    • ​Test out the colors on a piece of scrap first
    • You can sketch in pencil if you need to then trace over
    • Be creative with your designs, think of things they would like!
  • See the examples below
  • Have fun delivering a little joy to someone, or give it to them ANONYMOUSLY! 
Photo scavenger hunt!
To continue our photography unit we will be doing a "photo hunt" 
  • REMEMBER TO BE QUITE AROUND CLASSROOMS! OUtside photos only
  • You will have 20 mins to be outside of class. Be sure to head back as soon as you are done and no longer than 20 mins even if you are not finished.
    • This will give you time to upload your pictures to your device
      • This can be done with air drop or by emailing the pictures to yourself
  • You can work in groups of 3 or less
  • Have fun and try to take the most unique picture for each item
Photo list: Take a peak at some of the examples before you you head out!
  1. Something Boring
  2. Something really colorful
  3. a super close up of an object 
  4. sun flare or light flare 
  5. an unconventional portrait of someone
  6. An animal (be creative if you have to)
  7. something you see Often but from a unique angle
  8. grass (make it unique in some way!)
  9. a really cool texture
Pho-TOG-A-ZINE
Since we will be studying photography for our next art medium, Monday madness is going to be all about photos. Complete the page below in your wreck this journal. follow the instructions on the page.

​Then on 1 or 2 blank pages glue 4-5 photos or parts of photos that catch your eye! We will talk about these in Class on Tuesday as we begin exploring photography as an art medium.
Picture
Page from Wreck This Journal By Keri Smith
Fruit Salad
This Monday you are going to get a little fruity! As a class you are going to work together to go through the below steps for the first 20 Mins. Essentially, you are Making a bunch of fruit combos to guide your drawing challenge.  The last 20 mins. you are going to Work in your Wreck this Journal to complete the creative dRawing Challenge.
GRoup Step by Step
  1. Everyone get a post it note
  2. Think of 3-4 fruits but don't write them Down
  3. Starting in one corner of the room, one at a time, go around and say aloud which fruit you want to be. Everyone needs to have a different fruit! Be sure to speak up if someone chooses your fruit. Help each other out and yell out fruits when they need one. Once everyone has a fruit on their post it, move on.
    1. Click here for a list of fruit if you need help
  4. You are going to be finding a variety of "fruit Salad" Combos. Be sure to find a new partner for each category. Once you find your partner, write their fruit on your post it!
  5. stay together until the teachers calls the next combo.
  6. Stand up and Find a "Fruit Partner" that is:
    1. The same color as yours (any part) Remember don't shift until the teacher says!
    2. A similar texture to yours Remember you cannot have the same partner more than once!
    3. A similar taste to yours (sweet, sour, tangy....) Remember to write your partners fruit on your post it!
    4. a similar size to yours Remember you are all awesome and its fun to stretch your creative brain!
  7. Grab your Wreck this Journal
Individual Step by Step
  1. Find an open page in your journal and chose one of the below options.
    1. IF you finsh before class is over chose another journal page and follow the instructions
  2. You should have 5 fruits written on your post it, using ONLY those fruits do one of these:
    1. Take two fruit and "swtich them" 
      1. Like an orange colored red with seeds and a strawberry colored orange with a rough texture
    2. Draw all your fruits in a fruit bowl (whole) or a fruit salad (cut up)
    3. Make a hybrid fruit of 2 or 3 fruits like a StrawApplerine (strawberry, apple, nectarine)
    4. Make a hybrid fruit with something else (an animal, a veggie, a person...)
    5. Something fun with your 5 fruits that I didn't think of :)
  3. See some ideas below for inspiration
Que the critical thinking, cutting & Gluing!
This Monday you are going to utilize your Wreck this Journal. (If for any reason you don't have it in class, use free draw paper to mimic the activity, look at a friend's journal or see below)
STEP 1
Turn to this page (Red paper)
Follow the instructions
It should turn out kind of like a snowflake
KEEP THE PIECES OF PAPER YOU CUT OUT!!
STEP 2
Using the little pieces of paper you cut out, glue them into the shape of your favorite letter on a random page.
STEP 3
Go to the "make a Paper Chain Page" 
​STEP 4
DO NOT CUT THEM OUT YET!
On each "slip" (22 total) Write a way you could use a paper chain.
Example: Wear it, Jump rope with it.... Keep thinking until you have all 22 filled in. 
STEP 5
MAke your chain!
STEP 6
Do one of the things you wrote down with a friend.
STEP 7
Put your journal and paper chain in your cubbie
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Images from Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith
​BRAIN BUILDING…. STRETCH THOSE MUSCLES….MAKE NEW PATHS
For today’s “Monday Madness” we are going to exercise our brain. You will achieve this by doing each of the steps below on the same piece of drawing paper. This is about going through each step carefully, not about what your paper looks like at the end.
Go to the class website to see the video we watched in class.
  1. At the top of the paper write 3 words that describes you. BUT do it using your non-dominant hand.
  2. Also using your non-dominant hand draw a picture of a brain, remember there are 3 regions and your spinal cord.
  3. The video described the 3 regions of our brain as
    1. Primitive (survival type activities like breathing and scanning  our environment for safety)
    2. Feeling (controls our reactions and emotions)
    3. Thinking (the largest part of the brain that allows us to take control of situations using our imagination, logic and/or critical thinking)
    4. Using ONLY pictures, draw something that represents each of these regions, think about the images they used in the video if you get stuck.
  4. Putting your pen or pencil in your mouth, finish this exercise by writing your name at the bottom of the paper. 
Brain Introduction Video
HEre's a bonus video about how cool your brain is and how it uses imagination, something that we are going to use a lot this year!