Art Projects for Fourth-Grade Boys
According to the Americans for the Arts, art has a large impact of the overall development of every child and aids in teaching important life skills such as problem solving and the building of self-confidence. Fourth-grade boys are fascinated by challenging art activities that stimulate their imaginations and develop their creative skills. Accomplish art activities for these boys with basic materials and lots of excitement and creativity.
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Rolled Art With Jackson Pollock
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Jackson Pollock was a famous artist who used his paintbrush in an interesting way. Instead of painting with his brush directly onto his canvas, he stood over it and dripped and splashed the paint. He also walked and rolled balloons on his canvas to create interesting marks. Share examples of artwork by Jackson Pollock with boys such as "Number 1" (1950). Fourth-grade boys can create an exciting action painting in the style of Jackson Pollock by taping a sheet of 9- by 12-inch white drawing paper inside a cardboard box big enough to hold the paper. They can place items such as marbles, golf balls or acorns on their papers along with a spoonful of two colors of paint. The boys can shake and roll the cardboard box to create lines and marks.
Paper Mache Masks
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Fourth-grade boys enjoy working with their hands, thus, creating paper mache masks is an intriguing way to create a special art project. Boys can create a mold for their paper mache mask by using paper plates and cups taped together into a face-like form of their own creation. Using strips of torn newspaper and wallpaper paste, the boys can cover their masks with layers of paper mache. After the masks have dried overnight, they can be painted with tempera paint and adorned with beads, string or shells. This activity calls on boys' sense of goal setting and ability to complete a task from start to finish, all needed to succeed in the higher grades and life itself.
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Hand Blind Contour
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Fourth-grade boys can experience the challenge of drawing a still life by doing contour drawings of their hands. At this age and grade level, boys have the hand control to explore the concept of contour drawing. A blind contour drawing involves creating a shape, without looking, using one fluid line from start to finish. Experiment with blind contour drawings with fourth-grade boys by having them place a sheet of drawing paper inside of a brown paper bag. With their nondrawing hand placed outside the bag in a relaxed pose, the boys can draw their hand, blindly, using a pencil on the paper inside the paper bag. Encourage boys to try to draw their hand with one line by not lifting their pencils from the paper. Once the blind contour drawings are finished, remove them from the paper bags and see how they compare to the boys' hands.
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