Sunday, September 17, 2017

Beautiful Oops, first grade

Beautiful Oops is an inspiring book for young artists, encouraging "happy accidents." The book is filled with could-be disasters in the art room - stained, torn, wrinkled, ripped paper - that transform into magical works of art, using just a little creative thinking. It was a fun activity for early in the year - we loosened up and had fun with our torn newspaper! We learned about organic shapes and their irregular, curved or uneven sides - these shapes don't have to follow rules like the geometric shapes do. Clouds, wiggly worms, and puddles are great examples of organic shapes. After reading the book and choosing our scrap, we practiced a bit by tracing our scrap on paper and sketching our plan. The second week we painted the actual scrap and finally we mounted our work and added a title. Such a fun creative thinking project - thanks Barney Saltzberg for a great book!


Unicorn Oops

Swordfish deep down

Meat Oops ( love this so much!)

The Beautiful Oops house

Pizza Oops

Rainbow Oops

Fish Oops

Loose tooth Oops - ha!

Pond Oops

Color Teapot oops

The little Oops house

The wold oops









5 comments:

  1. These are great! Thanks for posting this!

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  2. Hi Hope, I love that you had the kids practice first by tracing and then sketching. I want to try this tactic with my kids tomorrow - how did you store the scraps so they didn't go missing for the next week?

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    1. Hey Laura - I think they put their names on the back or possibly kept them in their portfolios. I hope you have fun!

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