Me and my iPod

You need:

1. drawing sheet A4 size
2. compass
3. colour pencils
4. black print of a break dancer
5. white sewing thread
6. scraps of white paper
7. scissors
8. cutter and cutting mat
9. glue
10. coloured paper for background

After a dance project, students of our school made these break dancers, listening to their iPods while dancing.

Use pencil and ruler to divide the sheet lenghtwise in five compartments. Draw two meandering lines from top to bottom. The sheet is divided in 15 compartments now. Use a compass to draw circles of different sizes at the intersections of the lines. Colour all compartments alternately using two colours. Work top to bottom , to avoid mistakes.

Search the web for a black picture of a breakdancer and print it. Enlarge it on the copymachine until it fits on the drawing sheet. Cut this dancer and paste in on the drawing sheet.

Draw a little rectangle with a circle in it on a scrap of white paper: the iPod. Cut it and paste it in the hand of the dancer. Cut two very tiny circles, the headphones, and paste them on the head.

Cut a piece of sewing thread and make a loop in it. Cut the loop at the top - see picture. Paste the thread around the dancer, leading the two separate pieces to the headphones and the long piece to the iPod. Finally paste the arwork on a coloured background.

Made by students of 11-12 years old

The most beautiful soccer ball!

Made by students of 9-10 years old

With the upcoming Worldcup final between Holland and Spain tonight, a nice lesson to draw your own most beautiful soccer ball.

You need:

1. pattern soccer ball (download)
2. black pencil of black markers
3. ruler
4. scissors
5. glue
6. coloured paper for background

Most modern footballs are stitched from 32 panels of waterproofed leather or plastic: 12 regular pentagons and 20 regular hexagons. The pentagons are mostly black, the hexagons white.

Give students a copy of the soccer ball. Let them finish the lines using pencil and ruler. Then all surfaces have to be filled with patterns. Students of higher grades can be asked to draw dark patterns for the pentagons and lighter patters for the hexagons. In lower grades you can ask to colour the pentagon in the middle of the ball black, and draw patterns in the other hexagons and pentagons.
Cut the ball and paste it on coloured paper. Of course we chose orange!

Class team

Class team, by a student of 12 years old

With the worldcup coming up, you can design your own class team! Thanks to Anneriek Adema and her students, who sent me this fantastic lesson and artwork.

You need:

1. colouring page soccer team
2. photographs of children, copied onto A4
3. colour pencils or markers
4. glue
5. coloured paper for background

Colouring page class team (click and print)

Give all students a copy of the soccer team and a sheet with photographs of their classmates (just the heads). Ask children to compose their own favourite team by cutting out eleven photographs and paste them on the bodies of the players.

Design a shirt for the team and colour it. Don't forget the shirt numbers! Draw the hands. Colour legs, shoes and arms. Colour the background and paste the drawing on a coloured background. You may add the name of the team if you like to.

Class team with the Frisian flag on the shirts

You own worldcup champion shirt!

Back of the champion shirt, with name and number

You need:

1. template of a T-shirt
2. coloured cardboard A3 size
3. coloured paper
4. scissors
5. glue

With the World Cup coming up, children make their own football shirt. View on the digital board pictures of footballers who play in the national team. How do you see what the front and back is of a shirt? What's on the back of a shirt? Can you see the nationality of the football player on his shirt?

Conclude with the children that on the back of a shirt is a shirt number is (why would that be?) and the name of the football player.

Students are going to make their own shirt. Let them choose from different colours cardboard. They first have to trace the shirt template cut it out. Then students draw a shirt number and cut it out. Let them do the same with their name. Op restjes papier tekenen de leerlingen een rugnummer en knippen dit uit. Ditzelfde doen ze met de (blok)letters van hun naam. Help with the broadening of the letters will probably be necessary!
Decorate the front of the shirt as you like, but be sure everybody can see that it belongs to a player of your country!

Front of the shirts with Dutch flags, made by children of 7 years old

Tip: with the name of your father, this shirt is a perfect gift for Father's Day!

Doodle for Google: I love football!

You need:

1. Google logo
2. colour pencils
3. markers

2010 is the year of the World Championship Football in South-Africa. So the Doodle for this year has to be a doodle for football lovers. Several countries, including the Netherlands, can send in their doodles. Price: a trip to South Africa and your doodle for 24 hours on Google sites of participating countries. That's a price all our students wanted to win! Here a few results.

Doodles are made by children of 10-12 years old

Olympic athletes

You need:

1. scissors
2. glue
3. white drawing paper A1 size
4. cardboard in Olympic colours
5. download athlete
6. compasses
   

Start this lesson with the symbol of the Olympics: the coloured rings. What do these rings mean? What colours do they have? How are they placed together?

Ask one or two children to take the position of an athlete; an iceskater, a skier or another Olympic winter sport. Look carefully to the position of the student: what is the position of the legs, arms and body? Ask some other children to show another position and discuss it againt.

Children are going to work in a group of five students. Every group gets a big white sheet, five sheets of coloured cardboard (in the colours of the rings: black, yellow, red, blue and green) and at least five copies (don't worry about misusing one's work; it's the website of my school!) of the athlete.

Step one:
Each group member cuts an Olympic ring, using compasses and scissors. Paste this five rings on the big white sheet. Look carefully which ring has to be pasted in front or back, and which ones have to be pasted through eachother. Be sure the little cutting line is pasted underneath another ring. Step two:

Every student takes a copy of the body (download) and cuts out every part of it. Then these bodyparts have to be pasted around, in, behind and in front of the Olympic rings.

Winter scene

I got this lesson from Anneriek Adema. Her students (11-12 years old) made this wonderful winter scenes!

You need:

1. wc role
2. coloured paper
3. glue
4. scissors
5. polystyrene
6. wire, sticks etc.

The wc role is the basis for a snowman, skiing person, ice skater or something. Use coloured paper to make a person, and place him on a piece of polystyrene. Use different materials to make an environment.

This lesson can also be used to make a group work. Give every group a larger piece of polystyrene and let them discuss about what they are going to make.

Athletes and their shadows

You need:

1. plywood plate on A4 size
2. jigsaw
3. sandpaper
4. carbon paper
5. pencil
6. strong glue
7. black construction paper for background
8. tempera and brushes

Search in a newspaper, magazine or on the Internet for a photo of an athlete in motion. Note that, if you would print the photo in black, you'll see well what the athlete does. Place carbon paper with the black side down on your board. Lay the picture above. Trace the athlete. Press firmly.
Saw the athlete neat and sand the edges smooth. Paint the two parts in the colours you like. Don't forget the edges! Glue your board on a piece of cardboard and paste the sawn-athletes with some space between.
You will see an athlete with his own shadow!