4th Grade Art Sketchbook Challenges

4th GRADE Art Sketchbook Challenges

Keep your drawings and activities in a sketchbook! Have some EXTRA fun!

 

#1 Draw your teacher (or art teacher) stranded on a desert island…or a dessert island Yummmmm!

 

#2 Find a video on How to Fold Origami.  Try to fold something.

***When choosing from YouTube, please make sure your choice is "school appropriate," no weapons please :)

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+fold+origami

 

#3 Draw your favorite food at a disco party

 

#4 Make a flipbook using index cards or cut paper.  You can make 2 flipbooks by changing the side you put the clip-on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntD2qiGx-DY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un-BdBSOGKY

 

#5 Draw a llama surfing

 

#6 Create a Stop Motion video on your iPhone or tablet using the free StopMotion app (try adding sounds, music, and credits)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVL0Cm1HyIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF9-sEbqDvU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td2DgP56DP0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjOimVW7HIw&list=PLk9ClP0VesjM3jsRktlUY5t0bkQfHY3Un&index=7

 

#7 Draw a “Folding Surprise Puppet” following the instruction from this video.  You DON’T have to make a shark or pizza.  You can turn it into anything following these steps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy2-3BxdtYY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNpJCgOA1Xc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATEKkx159RY

 

#8 Stuck at home?  Take a virtual tour of a museum from around the world!

#9 Try an Op Art Challenge.  What’s OP Art?  Op stands for optical as in an “optical illusion” and is meant to fool the eye.  See if you can fool someone with your Op Art using a video to help you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnZQYXPJnXU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcWLe_f-wQk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW0evffIxEM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naMb5b4_QaY

 

#10 Make a Print like Andy Warhol!

#11 Tie Dye a T-Shirt, canvas shoe, handkerchief, or cotton fabric.

Attention:

1. Get your parent’s permission to choose what you can dye.

2. DO NOT use rubbing alcohol without parental supervision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhdS0mo6Jk4&t=157s&disable_polymer=true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY8FP9oSVvU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CyIuEvdclk

 

#12 Do you LOVE Internet quizzes?  Good because here are a bunch of them!  Pick one (or more) and have fun!

https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes

 

#13 Draw Baby Yoda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1NT7aWr_ow

 

#14 Why not check out #8 again and take another museum tour.  You can go anywhere with the click of a button and you don’t even have to pay to visit!

 

#15 Fill your paper with as many types of flowers and plants as you can.  What will you use to fill them with color?

 

#16 Watch this super satisfying Art creation video.  You don’t have to make anything (but of course if you feel inspired go for it! There are some really cool creations on here.)  Sit back and enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbRchjEh32U

 

#17 Try a SOAP CARVING.  Yes, you read that right?  Ever wondered how masters like Michelangelo and Davinci made their great masterpieces out of marble.  Check this out and try for yourself.

https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/sculpture/soap-carving

 

#18 Check out these YouTube videos of amazing humans making crazy DOMINO sculptures and then watching them fall!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE9yGOaF-ao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo6x4eulY9g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO3do77Y9cY

Make your own Domino set up. Videotape it falling!

 

#19 Choose a lesson from Deep Space Sparkle.  Your pick.  Post your final project! https://www.deepspacesparkle.com/category/art-lessons/

 

#20 Do a pendulum painting with your parents!

Do you love art?  Do you love math? Do you love science?  Try out this STEAM challenge where you will need all 3.  It’s fun, it’s MESSY, and it looks really neat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCB2txYLyxc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EakwlVrX_Q&list=RDCMUC7Q21sJbaAVOIylhu3E7row&index=1

 

#21 Nature Art

#22 Create a Found Object Color Wheel Inspired by Artist Caroline South.

#23 Love art but can’t afford the original?  Make your own!  Recreate your favorite painting or sculpture by dressing up with things you have in your house.

 

These are so fun and creative.  Check it out!

https://www.sadanduseless.com/recreated-art/

#24  Field Day is coming up, why not combine Field Day and Art?!  If you choose the “Paper Plane Corn Hole” activity for Field Day you will need to create and decorate 3 paper airplanes to use for your game. Design your paper, fold your planes, add any additional decorations, photograph them, and use them for Field Day.

How to Fold a Paper Airplane

 

#25 Create a THANK YOU card for a teacher or school staff member who really influenced you or who you want to say “thank you” to.  If can be a current teacher, past teacher, custodian, nurse, lunch aide, classroom aide, special subject area teacher, secretary, or an administrator. Make 1 or more than 1 to spread the love. These can get dropped off when your parents pick up your classroom supply bags in the last week of school.  

 

These can be dropped off when your parents pick up your classroom supply bags during the last week of school.  No photographs of Thank You cards need to be taken, emailed, or uploaded to Artsonia, these are for the recipient's eyes only.  Also, I'd advise that no gifts, gift cards, or personal items be included in these cards as they will not be secured at night and teachers may not receive them until later in the summer. 

#26 Special Assignment: Medical Heroes Thank You Cards for Mrs. Davis