Another art teacher, Ms. Kovac, showed me this project using the students name to create a project when talking about line. This is the 2nd year I have used it and I love it. The materials are simple, crayons and paper, and the results are beautiful. We start by writing our 1st name really big on the paper huge, turning the letters, overlapping them and trying to stretch them from one side to the other. Then we do the same with our middle and last name filling in any large white areas as we go. With long names this is easy but some of my kids have short 1st and last names with no middle name so they have to add some extra lines or write both names again. I leave it up to the individual. Next we check for any hanging lines where a line does not touch another line or does not run off the edge of the page. When that is all taken care of we start coloring. I limit the colors to between 3 and 5 and talk a little about movement (moving the viewers eye around the page). I do this project with my 4th graders with great success!
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