A couple of fantastic art games
I got these art games from a contributor to the Teacher.net Art Teacher Chatboard named gwynnetx.
Comments (0) | Permalinki have a game i like to play about once a semester because the kids love it and they get to think creatively. it’s great for a sub, too, or when they show up unexpectedly, like one poster was saying.
it’s called who, what, where, and it’s an actual game that you can buy, but i do the same thing for free. basically you give everyone a large piece of paper. we usually use a 12×18 inch piece of manilla paper. they fold it so that they have 8 boxes in which to draw.
you can either have the kids make the cards or make them yourself or wing it, but you need 8 who cards (who they’re drawing), 8 where cards (the setting), and 8 what cards (the action of the who’s). then you just randomly select a card from each pile and give them however long you feel they’ll need (i usually do 2 minutes) to draw what you’ve called out (ex. spiderman cheerleading in a volcano). do this 8 times, one for each box.
the kids really like this game; it makes them laugh and they have a great time adding details, which i actively encourage.
i have 50 minutes classes, though, so for the rest of the time, i have the kids turn the paper over to the blank side and draw a line. then i have them put their pencils down and pass their paper (clockwise) to their neighbor. i then explain that they will have 10 seconds to add to the line to help create a picture of some kind (otherwise, some will just scribble). when the 10 seconds is up, they must pass that paper to the same neighbor and add to the new picture they received. same thing for the next 10 seconds and so on. i just continue this until either i get tired of it or most people have a pretty good picture. gets them thinking quickly and creatively.
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