2D Giant Butterfly

Materials needed:
-Big white drawing paper
-Crayons
-Scissors
-Black construction paper
-Glue

Directions:
1.  Fold the big white drawing paper in half
2.  Draw one half of a butterfly, just one wing, in black crayon...press HARD
3.  Fold the butterfly in half the opposite way
4.  Using a tool (like a wide popsicle stick) press down and rub the stick over the paper...the idea is to transfer the crayon enough to the other side so you can have a mirror image of the design
5.  Trace over the ghost lines with black crayon, pressing equally as hard so it's the same on both sides
6.  Color it in
7.  Glue a butterfly body in the middle

Dubuffet - Art Brut Cow

Jean Dubuffet is a French painter and sculpture.
1901-1985
He has a very cool sculpture right here in Chicago!

His paintings have an interesting TEXTURE.  He would often take sand, tar and straw and mix it in the paint!
This project is based on his "The Cow with a Subtile Nose" 1954

I snagged this great lesson idea from Art Projects for Kids and I wanted to share our result!
http://www.artprojectsforkids.org/2010/07/dubuffet-cow-painting.html

Material Needed:
- White drawing paper
- Pencils
- Black Sharpie
- Crayons (white, yellow, orange, brown)
- Black Watercolor paint
- Paintbrushes

Directions:
1.  We drew the cow, in pencil, as a group, step by step, breaking it down to basic shapes.  (Follow the Art Projects for Kids link to an example)
2.  Trace the pencil lines with a black Sharpie
3.  Color the cow, pressing pretty hard with crayons (avoid using dark colored crayons)
4.  Background is colored green
5.  Have the students crumple up their drawing 3 or 4 times.  Make sure they crumple it up real good!  The kids always get a kick out the this part!
6.  Uncrumple the drawing and paint over the entire thing with black water color paint and let dry.

Easy-Peasy Homemade Scratch Art

I love scratch art paper and was curious to see if I could make my own.  Here's how we did it:

Materials needed:

• white paper (heavy enough to take paint)
• crayons in bright colors (take out the black, brown and dark blues)
• black tempera paint (tip - drop a few drops of dishsoap in it, for some reason it helps)
• paintbrushes or sponge brushes
• wood dowel with a sharp end or toothpick

1. First, have the kids draw a big rectangle on the white paper that fills up almost the whole page. (Having a border will help later, so kids don't paint to the edge of the paper and get paint everywhere)
2. Then, pressing hard color with crayons on the white paper inside the rectangle.  Encourage them to fill up the whole rectangle!  Don't leave ANY white showing!  Suggest to them that they might want to just draw designs or bold strips of color because we will be painting over the crayon. 
3. Next, the kids will paint with black tempera covering their entire colored rectangle!
4. Let dry thoroughly.
5. Last, give the kids their scratching tool and scratch away!