ART F OR V OC A BU L AR Y ETC
"On The Terrace." By Renoir. wikipedia.com
Copyright 2007
By Mason Emerson
Art is very useful for building vocabulary and comprehension in general. For example if a student draws and cuts out a reindeer which is on a piece of brown construction paper and then pastes it on a white piece of paper, then s/he is more likely to remember the word reindeer.
While doing the work the student will probably discuss it and use the word reindeer with other students which also puts the word and any English sentences used in the process into memory better.
Art is also outstanding for showing cultural appreciation, especially when an activity or project is connected directly to the culture of ESL students. Some of these can be for example

drawings etc centered around Mexico's Cinco De
Mayo, murals remindful of Diego Rivera, or Panama's mola art.
Activities with the coloring of copies of drawings or paintings of artwork by the Aztecs, Mayas, Olmec, Tarahumaras etc can be beautiful, instill pride and teach vocabulary.
Also, art is also a major mode of learning for many people just as music or reading or writing are for other people.
A CTIVITIES/ P ROJECTS
For holidays and special days students may be helped to make: assorted ornaments and decorations; cards for holiday wishes, awards, certificates, Valentine's Day, Christmas etc; dioramas
(example: of a house, various biomes, animal or plant classes), drawings, mobiles, empty round oatmeal boxes, masks (of a policeman, fireman, bandit), origami, paper models (example: of a car or other vehicles), sock and/or paper puppets, cards or paper items strung liana style on a string or piece of yarn, wind socks shaped like fish or other creatures, paperbag puppets; charts of a family tree, real or imitation coat-of-arms, typical daily events, favorite things such as books; pinwheels with things drawn on them; information card, flowers and trees, cutouts, traceable patterns, personalized stationery, paper flags, paper puzzles, flour-and-water paste pi ñ ata etc.
Some projects can be combinations of activities. The artwork may be combined with writing activities such as a poem or a few informational sentences.
Just think creatively and encourage students to do the same. It is best if at all possible to have concrete pictures or models of what you want them to do.
S UPPLIES

Some common supplies for art projects are: string, yarn, glitter, tinsel, butcher paper, construction paper, googly eyes, glue, paste, scissors, crayons, tempera paint, acrylic paint, oil paint, charcoal, clay, beads, styrofoam and regular paper plates, toothpicks, popcycle sticks, brown paperbags, bits of macaroni, food dye, old newspapers, cardboard, egg cartons, lined and/or unlined index cards, old socks, paper clips, colored feathers, pipe cleaners, stapler with staples, hole puncher, boxes for buildings etc, a bag of flour for mixing with water to form paste, stencils, examples of calligraphy and other writing systems
(Chinese, cuneiform, hierglyphics etc).
Students may use pen or pencil, wood, clay, collage, leather wrx.
Some easy art projects or activities:
Unos proyectos o actividades faciles de arte:
Draw and color a state of the U.S.; write one or two sentences about the state.
Haga un dibujo de uno de las banderas de los EEUU entonces escriban uno u dos frases sobre el estado y pinten la bandera:
Go to http://www.wikipedia.org/ , type in the name of a state, and then when you are there draw and color a map of the state or a scene; on the same paper write a few sentences about the drawing
Vayan a http://www.wikipedia.org/ , escriban por maquina el nombre de uno de los estados; cuando estan alli hagan un dibujo y pinten un estado, mapa o escena del estado; en la misma hoja escriban unos frases sobre el dibujo.
Explore http://www.flickr.com
for inspirational photos of Latino art; for example if you use "mola art" you can find photos such as this. Exploren http://www.flickr.com
para fotos edificantes de arte latino; por ejempo si usted usa "mola art" (arte mola) puede encontras fotos como este.

ART WORDS (BILINGUAL) IN CONTEXT
Thousands of art words in English and Spanish look and sound very similar. HOWEVER, the following words are mostly words that are more different and therefore deserve more attention. Teachers, especially those who are art teachers with students who do not speak much English at home, may have all students including those who typically speak English, practice these words in the context of sentences during the earliest weeks of the school years and sometimes later on.
Students do learn vocabulary much faster when it is learned within sentences than if learned as isolated words. Therefore the words below are also in sentences for easier practice and better learning. acrylics, acrilicos art, arte artist, artista
Acrylics are a kind of paint.
Acrilicos son un tipo de pinta.
Let’s do an art project!
Vamos a hacer un proyecto de arte!
I want to become an artist.
Quiero hacerme/llegar a ser un/a artista. bead, abalorio May I have that bead.
Puedo (con permiso) tener ese abalorio.
Necesito ese abalorio. brush, cepillo butcher paper, Get some butcher paper. papel grande y larga Recojete papel grande y larga. canvass, lienzo
Pass me that brush, please.
Pasame ese cepillo, por favor. cut, cortar
You will paint it on canvass.
Vas a pintarlo en lienzo.
Cut out the pictures. ceramic, ceramica
Corta afuera los pinturas.
Make a ceramic pot.
Haz una olla ceramica. charcoal pen, carboncillo Draw it with a charcoal pen. circle, circulo
Dibujalo con carboncillo.
Draw a circle around this.
Dibuja un circulo alrededor de esto. clay, plastilina clean; limpiar, limpio
Give me some blue clay.
Dame un poco de plastilina azul.
Clean this table!
Limpia esa mesa!

color wheel, rueda de colores complementary,
complementario
Look at the color wheel.
Mira la rueda de colores.
Blue and orange are
Azul y anaranjado son complementary colors. colores complementarios.
Get the construction paper.
Recojete la cartulina de color. construction paper, cartulina de color y
a veces denso
copper, cobre
lapiz de colores do!, haz!
Let’s make copper figures.
Vamos a hacer figuras de cobre. crayons/colors; crayolas, Pass me that box of crayons.
Pasame esa caja de crayolas. draw, dibujar
Do what I do.
Haz lo que yo hago.
Let’s draw some horses. easel, caballete glue, pegar/encolar glitter, brillo jagged, dentado kiln, horno
Vamos a dibujar unos caballos.
An easel holds a painting.
Un caballete mantiene un cuadro.
Glue the papers together.
Pega el papeles juntos.
Put more glitter here.
Ponte mas brillo aca.
This line is too jagged.
Esta linea es demasiado dentado.
You heat ceramics in a kiln.
Tu calientas ceramicas en un horno. line, linea marker, marcador paint, pintar painting, cuadro primary, primario random, al azar show, mostra trace, trazar up, arriba scissors; tejiras, tejira
Make a line from right to left.
Haz una linea de la derecha a la izquierda.
I need an orange marker.
Necesiito un marcador anaranjado.
Paint this part red.
Pinta este parte rojo.
The Mona Lisa is a painting.
La Mona Lisa es un cuadro.
Yellow is a primary color.
Amarillo es un color primario.
Use random dots.
Usa puntos al azar.
Who has the scissors?
Quien tiene las tejiras?
Show me your drawing.
Muestrame tu dibujo.
Trace this house.
Traza esta casa.
Draw the lines up and down.
Dibujan las lineas arriba y abajo.

wash; lavarse, lavar water colors, acuarela
Wash your hands!
Lavate los manos!
We need the water colors.
Necesitamos las acuarelas.
ART FOR VOCABULARY
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Letters
Numbers

SLIDESHOW-ART MASTERS’
PAINTINGS
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By Mason Emerson

Paul Cézanne ( 1839 – 1906 ) was a
French artist and Post-
Impressionist painter .

Claude Monet ( 1840 –1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir ( 1841 –
1919 ) was a French artist in the
Impressionist style.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was from Tuscany, Italy. He
Mona Lisa is very famous. He was also a scientist and inventor.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-
1569) was Dutch. He liked to paint landscapes with regular people in them.

Yokoyama Taikan (1868-1958) was Japanese. He painted scenes of nature on silk.

Kitagawa Utamaro lived from
1753 to 1806 in Japan. His paintings influenced European
Impressionists.

Guo Xi lived from about 1020 to about 1090 in China. He painted landscapes.

Zhou Fang lived about 730 to
800 in China. He painted people and celestial beings.

This was painted by Nihaal
Chand of India. He lived from
1710 to 1782.

These are paintings by different artists of India.

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By Mason Emerson
WINDOW AND STAINED GLASS
DECORATIONS
Draw and color or cut out attractive Christmas items, pictures or scenes. Some easy things to make on your own are wreaths, stars, bells, candy canes. Put each of a different sheet of paper.
Have them laminated. Hang them in your windows. You might add a few words such as the joyful “Merry Xmas!” or educational notes like “Santa Claus began with Saint Nicholas” and “The Xmas tree began with the Tree of Paradise in
Medieval church plays.” To lend a Stained Glass look you can put graph paper (paper with a grid of squares) behind your paper. You may need to redraw over the lines with a thin black marker so that they are more visible.
CHRISTMAS CARDS
Fold a piece of white paper width-wise making it into halves or four “pages.” On the front cover put something to do with
Christmas which you made or cut out. For example you might put there candy canes, poinsettias, a snowman, a Santa, snowflakes, bells, a wreath etc. On the third page add a
Christmas poem, s joyful “Merry Xmas!”, educational notes like “Santa Claus began with Saint Nicholas” and “Xmas trees

began with the Tree of Paradise in Medieval church plays,” or a Thank You note written in advance for Santa Claus.
CHRISTMAS STOCKING
First draw two copies of a stocking on two pieces of brown felt or very tough brown paper. Glue the two pieces together.
Punch a hole on the top right (or left) side of the stocking.
Loop yarn through the hole and tie it so as to form a ring from which you can later on hang the stocking off the head of a nail, screw. or Christmas tree limb. Decorate it with drawings of typical Christmas items, for example, stars, snowflakes,
Christmas tree, reindeer or Santa Claus.
CHRISTMAS MOBILE
Cut out some one inch by one inch square of white paper on which you have drawn and colored Christmas items of different or similar types, for example snowflakes. Punch holes through the center of the top of each square. Loop a string through the hole in each, taking care that each string is of a different length than the others. Connect the other end of each of the strings to a stick or stiff horizontal piece of paper.
Put a tiny hole in the topmost central part of the horizontal paper. Run a string through it in a loop which you can attach to a hook, nail, screen or Christmas tree limb. Now you have a mobile for a Christmas ornament.
CHRISTMAS PLATE
Get a paper plate. Draw and color on it typical Christmas items such as a wreath, Santa, gifts, lights, tree. On its fringes you may add some tinsel. Glitter always looks nice too.

PINE CONE CHRISTMAS TREES
Get some pine cones. Spray paint them Christmas green. Let them dry. Use either a paint brush or a paint pen to paint on circles or specks of red, blue, orange, purple etc that look like lights. You might also wish to wrap a piece of red yard in diagonal loops around the tree to add even more color, possibly include flakes of glitter.
PAPER PLATE SNOWMAN
On a paper saucer use black and red markers to draw on a simple face consisting of two eyes, nose and smiling mouth. Or glue on goggly eyes which you can buy at a craft or teachers’ store. At the bottom center of the brim part of the paper saucer punch a hole. Get a large paper plate. Punch a hole in it too, also on the brim.
Loop a piece of white yarn through the holes of the paper saucer and plate then tie it so that now there’s “head” connected to a stomach. You may wish to glue to the bottom of the stomach two legs cut out of black or brown construction paper. You may also cut out then glue on to it two hands, perhaps a hat too. In short, add on anything else you like to
“make it pretty.”
STYRO-FOAM SNOWMAN
Use a large and a smaller ball of styro-foam to form the stomach and head parts of a snowman which you can attach

for example by glue or a small piece of wire. Build a face etc by marker pen/s etc.
FELT OR PAPER CHRISTMAS TREE
Cut a Christmas tree from green construction paper or green felt. From felt or paper of different colors (especially red) cut out small circles which will be the tree’s ornaments. Glue or sew them to the tree. Similarly make then attach a yellow star at the top of the tree.
CHRISTMAS CHAIN
Draw, color then cut out some Christmas items ornaments from paper. Use tape or glue to attach them to a long piece of yarn. Hang your Christmas chain on a Christmas tree, from a ceiling or along a wall.

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CARDS
Found a sheet of paper width-wise through the middle. On the front you can put something such as “Happy Thanksgiving!” On the next two pages you can draw pictures of things common during Thanksgiving such as Pilgrims, turkeys, corn, pumpkin pie, fall leafs, a scarecrow, a cornucopia, etc, as well as some additional sentences or a poem.
BOOKLET
Do as with the preceding idea but add more pages on which you can include photos of the autumn outdoors, laminated colorful leafs etc.

SQUASH TURKEY
Draw the beat of a turkey and its eyes on the side of a squash. Add some turkey or turkey-like feathers on its top to also make it resemble a turkey. Alternatively, instead of feathers trace around your fingers on paper such as to resemble the outlines of turkey feathers, then color those and add to the squash.
THANKSGIVING DISPLAYS
Put an old blanket on a selected section of floor in a house or out on a porch. On top add items such as cornstalks, pumpkins, gourds, turkey feathers, apples. If you can come up with a hat in the style of a Pilgrim or an Amerindian headdress, so much the better. Corn cobs with hard kernels on them are also good. Some stores sell the kind that have multi-colored kernels. You might add some posterboards as a backdrop on which may be drawn pictures of Pilgrims with Native Americans.
BIRD HOUSES AND BIRD FOOD
About Thanksgiving it gets cold, making it harder for birds to eat and have shelter.
For the shelter of simple inexpensive bird houses, dry gourds, cut a hole in the bottom of each to remove the innards, let dry, add a hook on top from which it can be hung off a tree or bush branch.
To provide food, put peanut butter on pine cones then hang the cones on trees for the birds to eat. That way they too will see Thanksgiving as a day for being thankful.
PAPER PLATE TURKEYS
Get some paper plates. On them draw and color some turkeys (or other items typical for Thanksgiving). You may want to pin them to a wall.
TURKEY HATS
Cut out brown construction paper in a long but not too wide shape. Tape its ends together. Now it appears similar to a brown belt that when taped became a brown ring. Cut out two red pieces of construction paper so that they look like extended wings. Glue or tape each one on a different side of the brown ring. Cut out pieces of construction paper, for example, black, brown and white in the shape of feathers.
Tape or otherwise attach those to the back of the brown ring. Cut out a brown circular shape for a head. To it glue two small white circular eyes. Add a

triangular yellow construction paper peak. Add also a red construction paper wattle. Set the turkey hat atop your head!
PAPER TUBE AMERINDIANS
Get some paper towel tubes. Put brown or red construction paper around each.
Near the top glue on a piece of light brown construction paper on which you next draw with a thin black marker the Amerindian’s eyes, noses and smiling mouths.
On the top front of each tube add construction paper feathers of any colors you want. You may use the marker to draw beads on the front of each Amerindian just under its head area. Use black yarn for hair.
PINE CONE TURKEY
Draw and color the head of a turkey on a piece of white paper, including eye, yellow or gold beak and red wattle. Cut it out. Draw and color the feathers of the turkey on a piece of white paper. Some feather colors might be brown and cold. Cut it out.
Glue the head to the mid-section of a pinecone. Next behind the head glue the feathers.
LEAFS CHAIN
Run a thread through the eye of a needle and tie it. Lance the needle through numerous bright colorful autumn leafs to form a Leaf Chain. Snap the chain free from the needle. Hang the leaf chain up on a wall or from the ceiling. Alternatively, instead of just leafs, you might add paper cutouts of the Mayflower, Pilgrims,
Squanto etc.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:KyrgyzPetroglyphs.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tanbaly.jpg
from Jonas Satkauskas

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Katsushika Hokusai of Japan (1760 –1849) painted this woodcut print.