Kindergarten Visual Art Training “Wolf Pup 101 ”

1. Kindergarten Visual Art Training“Wolf Pup 101” International Wolf Center

2. “For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.” - Rudyard Kipling

3. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely. Broad, wholesome, charitable views can not be acquired by vegetating in one’s little corner of earth.” - Mark Twain From Innocents Abroad, 1869

4. Two Visual Art Trainings in 2009-2010 • September 23rd • Kindergarten Level PLC with Amie Marquez • February 9th • Video-Conference: International Wolf Center with Tyson Ledgerwood

5. School Wide Art Show 2009-2010 • The winners of the individual school art shows will be framed and displayed atthe Western Heritage Museum on May 8th 2010.

6. “The word art, derived from an ancient Indo-European root that means “to fit together,” suggests as much. Art is about fitting things together: words, images, objects, processes, thought, historical epochs.” - Jeffrey J. Schnapp Director of Stanford Humanities Lab Stanford University

7. Hour #1

8. “Hands On” Classroom Lesson #1“Forest Floor Texture Painting” • Put your name on the back. • Lay the brown tissue paper flat on the poster board. • Paint watered down glue on top of it. • Let dry. • Cut out paw print. • Glue the foot print on the brown background. • Add leafs. • Add rocks. • Add snow.

9. Hour #2

10. Video-Conference • Virtual Classroom Lesson • Questions and Answers from Presenter • Sign-up for Video-Conference in your classroom.

11. Hour #3

12. “Hands On” Classroom Lesson #2“Totem Pole” Day One: • Cut out the top shape. • Cut out two circles. • Paste your Eagle’s eyes. • Draw and Color in your Eagle’s Beak • Draw Feathers on his Wings.

13. “Hands On” Classroom Lesson #2“Totem Pole” Day Two: • Cut out middle shape. • Cut out two circles. • Paste your Wolf’s eyes. • Draw and Color in your Wolf’s nose and whiskers and ears and paws.

14. “Hands On” Classroom Lesson #2“Totem Pole” Day Three: • Cut out the bottom shape. • Cut out two circles. • Paste your Bear’s eyes. • Draw and Color in your Bear’s nose and whiskers and ears and paws.

15. “Hands On” Classroom Lesson #2“Totem Pole” Day Four: • Put your name on the back on the long poster board strip. • Glue it all together on your “totem pole”.

16. Resource Information • The International Wolf Center website has teacher resources at this link: http://www.wolf.org/wolves/learn/educator/edu_main.asp

17. “Art is the cleverness of Odysseus; the intimate knowledge of materials in a sculpture by Renaissance master Benvenuto Cellini or a dress designed by Issey Miyake; the inventive genius of a Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, or computer visionary Douglas Englebart; the verbal craft in everything from an aphorism (“Time is Money”) to an oration (“Four Score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation”) to a commercial slogan (“Just Do It”). In short, art isn’t to be found only in galleries and museums; it is woven into the warp and woof of an entire civilization.” - Jeffrey J. Schnapp Director of Stanford Humanities Lab Stanford University

18. “Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish.” - Aristotle

19. Story time

20. References • Images are from the website of the International Wolf Center.