Theme: Winter

I am working through the themes found in the CAPS document(Life skills). My focus at this point is to post ideas for Grade R Creative Arts. I am going to start at the 3rd term, and work my way through the other 3 terms. The ideas on my page are intended to aid teachers with ideas, so please feel free to use and improve on them. You might even want to add additional ideas or suggestions!

Winter: 

1. Snowman

Photo: http://goo.gl/xDEpBv

Make this snowman artwork with your children!

What you need:

A5 size Cardboard in different shades of cool colours (Blue, green and purple)

A5 pieces of white paper

Paper glue

Black maker

Orange koki

Cotton wool (optional)

A punch

Method:

1. Punch a few holes in the coloured cardboard to resemble the falling snow.

2. Cut a piece of white paper for the ground and paste it on the cardboard.

3. Cut 3 circles from the white paper. (One must be slightly bigger that the other 2.) 

4. Paste the circles, starting with the larger one at the bottom, so that they overlap slightly.

5. With the black marker, draw on a hat, eyes, a nose, a mouth, buttons and arms. Colour the nose with the orange koki.

6. Paste the cotton wool on the white paper, resembling the ground.

Great idea:

Use this figure to make greeting cards.

 

2. Winter Clothing Doll

Photo: Pereira Photos

Perfect low-budget creation to teach children about winter clothing.

What you need:

Photo: Pereira Photos

A4 White Cardboard

A4 White paper/Magazines

Pencils

Scissors

Colouring pencils/crayons

Paper Glue

Ribbon

Stickers/Buttons/Googly eyes etc. for decoration

Method:

1. Draw a basic body shape on your white cardboard.

2. Cut along the edges.

Photo: Pereira Photos

3. a) Colour roughly on the white paper filling up all the blank spaces.

    b) Or, pick a page from a magazine to trace.

Photo: Pereira Photos

4. Place your cardboard figure on the back of the paper/magazine and trace the outline of the  winter clothing piece you want your figure to wear, eg: Sweater Pants or a onezee.

Photo: Pereira Photos

5. Cut out the clothing item traced in step 4.

6. Paste it on your figure.

Photo: Pereira Photos

7. Decorate your figure with ribbon(a scarf), wool(hair), buttons for clothing, etc.

3. Rainbow Umbrella

Photo: Pereira Photos

What you need:

 

A3 Blue cardboard

Black Marker

Magazines

Glue

 

What to do:

1. On the blue cardboard, draw an umbrella.

2. Tear and sort different colours from a magazine.

3. Paste the wedges of the umbrella according to the colours of the rainbow.

4. Paste the handle with brown or black pieces.

 

Great idea:

Instead of tear and pasting, try using scrunched-up crepe paper.
Splatter paint the background using a toothbrush to give it a "rainy day" effect.