The Mini Page — 2007 Activities
A BOOK’S LOOK
Issue 44
Oct. 27-Nov. 2
This week's standards:
- Students know that the visual arts have both a history and specific relationships to various cultures. (Visual Arts)
- Students use different media, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, experiences and stories. (Visual Arts)
Activities:
1. Design a different cover for one of your favorite books.
2. With a friend, look through the newspaper to find photos and drawings that would look good on a book cover. Cut out your favorite photo or drawing and paste it on a piece of paper. Now make up a title that goes with the art. Use the art and the title to create a new book cover.
3. Select a newspaper story that would make a good subject for a picture.
Draw three illustrations for the story; use colored markers for one illustration, watercolors for another and colored pencils for the third. Show your illustrations to family members and friends. Ask them to pick their favorite.
4. Which of the children's illustrators in today's Mini Page (a) wrote about scary things,
(b) created small books that were easy to hold, (c) first showed a black child in a normal setting, and (d) also illustrated magazine stories?
5. Use resource books and the Internet to learn more about the illustrator of a favorite book.
Use these questions to guide your research: When did the illustrator first become interested in art? What other jobs did the illustrator have? What is the illustrator's favorite art medium? What other books has the artist illustrated? Why does the artist enjoy illustrating children's books? Write a paragraph discussing your research.
Standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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