Claes oldenburg art lesson

Last semester we had some great projects in 3-D Design. Although we’re now in the Spring 2013 semester, I wanted to feature some of the awesome projects students completed last fall. Many stu…

Preschool students made mittens this week using colored squares and glue. Next they painted the background and added snowflakes! With temperatures in the single digits this week - it was a great day to make mittens! Kindergarten students created a winter forest. These birch trees and red cardinals make a great addition to our hallway walls. Our birds were made using 3 simple shapes - circle, oval, and triangle. The birch trees were made using 4 long white stripes of paper. The last step was…

Save to Favorites 7 Favorites X Save to Favorites Please Login or Register to save content. Grade Level 9-10, 11-12 Duration 15 classes, at 50 minutes per class Materials Cardboard, paste (half water, half elmers), tape and hot glue Media Lesson Objectives Students will learn how use scale and proportions skills. They will gain group […]

This project was inspired by the giant sculptures of Claes Oldenburg. We started off by looking at a slide show of Oldenburg’s works around the world. This was an intense lesson as it took we…

I'm always looking for a better way to do projects. I had done pizza sculptures a la Claes Oldenburg before (see here) and I thought that my Modern Art kiddos would like them too. I had originally had students create the pizza form from two pieces of newsprint stapled and stuffed with crumpled up newspapers ad then paint the sauce and toppings. While that worked out OK, the pizzas got a bit muddy with all of those toppings being painted over one another before they were dry. So, I got to…

We really were hungry by the end of this lesson! Making paper sculptures based on the whimsical work of Claes Oldenberg. We cut, stapled, glued, and stuffed giant pizza slices out of construction paper. We put them all together to make one GIANT pizza! Really cute project, but they wanted real pizza when it was over! Ha!

I don't have a kiln and to be honest, I'm not sure if it's ever in the future for me, sadly. However, this year I was able to purchase some Crayola Air Dry Clay, and the reason I like this so much is because you can use marker, watercolors, or tempera to color them. It's easy! Its mess-free! It's what we got, so we make it work. We talked about different types of food, and the students only got a small little piece of clay. If they wanted something big, it had to be hallowed out and stuffed…

After a week of State STAAR testing, we are glad to be back on schedule and having specials again. My wonderful 2nd grade artists are...

8th grade student sample Many teachers have done Claes Oldenburg inspired food sculptures so by no means do I claim this to be an original idea. I just wanted to share the resources, tips and steps…

For the past few weeks Kindergarten has been learning about the artist, Claes Oldenburg! Oldenburg was a sculpture artist who created giant sculptures of everyday objects. We focused mainly on his …