Great American Artists for Kids is the backbone of our art education at home. It fits nicely with our American History studies as we learn about one artist a week. We plan on completing this study in two years when we complete our American History program. Our artist for the week was Frank Lloyd Wright. One interesting fact that I learned about Wright is that he designed the Guggenheim Art Museum. I had no idea.
We read a few books about Frank Lloyd Wright and looked at a few of his designs. J worked on an artist notebook page to add to her notebook.
She added Wright to our Artist wall. Look at all of the artists!! It makes me happy. Now, if you were to look at our composer wall, it is somewhat sad. But I am working on that.
I gave J a choice of projects to complete for Wright and she chose to do the candle holder based on Wright's stained glass windows. I bought the glass container from the Dollar Store and she used glue and tissue paper to cover it. This project was from Inner Child (link below).
I also found a coloring sheet based on one of his windows. She colored this to add to her notebook.
This is her finished lantern. The projects suggests that lines be drawn with sharpies. But J didn't want to do this - she liked it as it stands. I placed a battery operated candle in it. As luck would have it, we are close to one of Wright's designs. So, we also drove by and talked about the design. Pretty cool:) Have an awesome day.
Links
Create Art with Me - has a cute project for Wright by creating stained glass windows using contact paper.
Inner Child Fun - has a project using votive glasses to create candle holders. Love this.
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