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Japanese Art and Culture
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Elementary Art Projects
Inspired by Japanese Art and Culture
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Submitted by Brenda Robson
Batik Kimonos
We looked at Kimonos then drew them. We then put a
paper that was the texture of a coffee filter over it and traced with a
white (some chose black) oil pastel. I also looked up the children's names
in Japanese and we wrote this down the lapel.
Then we painted inside the lines with ColorSplash liquid watercolors.
Brenda was inspired by the Kimono
collagraph lesson by Ken Schwab.
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Submitted by Patti Caiola
Japanese Landscape Scrolls
Description:
Students will be introduced to the Japanese style of art and design
in this lesson using simple shapes and design.
Students will create their own land in which they will rule as the
Emperor/Empress with a palace, crops, farmer, farmer house, water source,
light source, and nature.
Cross-Curriculum with Social Studies/Foreign Language. Lesson
Plan 
Materials:
6 x 18 white paper
Colored pencils
Erasers
Pencils
Black construction paper 2” x 9” Glue
Yarn or String for hanging/rolling
(opt.) Black
sharpies for outlining
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Submitted by Barbara
Boville, MacArthur Elementary
School, Green Bay, Wisconsin
UNIT: Asian Art - Origami - Textiles - Kimono
Lesson: Origami Asian Doll
Grade level - elementary
  
Barbara has done these Japanese Origami dolls with
fifth grade. She suggest working through at least one yourself first to
work out any problem areas. See
pattern and adjust size to your needs. See
lesson plan for details. Barbara also does a folding
Japanese/Chinese screen. See Chinese Screen
assemblage instructions - more details to come.
Roberta Dunkel also made the Japanese dolls with her
art
students. They used flat ice cream spoons for the head - glued it inside the
paper kimono. This was with first grade. They also
painted Hokusia's "Great Wave" in white tempera on blue paper.
See some beautiful contemporary dolls by Masako
Kurosawa Featured
exhibition Dolls use semi- transparent leather known as "Kikawa"
Submitted by Jeryl Hollinsworth
Kokeshi Dolls - 2nd Grade
Jeryl did the Fulbright trip to Japan so
she had lots of things to show them. She had several Kokeshe dolls and the
background on that (farmers carved them for dolls for their little girls). Kokeshi are minimalist figures made in the northern region of Japan. Basically, a kokeshi
is made of two simple lathed pieces of wood--a cylindrical body, with a
somewhat thicker and rounded head. A few thin, painted lines define the
face, and the body has a floral design painted in red, black, and
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Students drew the
doll on tag board, colored it and cut out, then used watercolor markers on
coffee filters. Filters were sprayed with a bottle, (They folded
them and only colored one section and sprayed it while it was folded). The
next week they used the filter to dress the dolls. Jeryl also had lots of
photos of children in kimonos to show them from her trip.
Sculpture lesson for
Kokeshi Dolls - by Marjorie McKellop
See
some wood examples (commercial site)
Excellent
examples of wooden dolls (commercial site)
Find out more about Kokeshi
dolls Japanese
Wood Dolls (from Lotz Doll pages) |
| Submitted by Sky McClain: Sky McClain's students all
did a unit on Japan. First they all saw an excellent movie on Japan called
"A Kids View of Japan." Kristi Yamaguchi (Olympics skater) is
narrator. Her first graders painted fish kites, second made a family of
origami swans on a paper pond, third graders - fake food, fourth grade -
scrolls of favorite natural places they've visited, and fifth grade did lino-cut fish prints.
See Sky McClains' Art Room site for more
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Submitted
by Sky McClain
Unit: Japan - sculpture/crafts
Lesson: Japanese FAke Food - Gyodan Sky McClain did Japan as a theme this
year. Her third graders did fake food called gyodan in Japan.
The Japanese study the art of gyodan for seven years before they are
considered professional. They make it out of plastic and
display it in restaurants. This allows one to SEE what's on
the menu. Students used Crayola Model Magic. They painted the
food and the paper plates with tempera paints. They mixed
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Many people have now seen the fake food
display samples that Japanese restaurants use to advertise their menus.
But did you know that this is a craft with an 80 year history, and all
models are still individually hand made by master artisans? The idea
originated in a small mountain town in Gifu, and you can still visit a
traditional workshop there.
Susan
on Long Island's third grade made food. She wanted to buy
examples of the fake food to bring back (Fullbright Scholarship winner)
when I visited the area known for this, and its famous store, the fake
food was just incredibly too expensive. But, her students did this
sculpture in ceramics. They added authentic chop sticks, etc. They even
made their own tea bowls. They had an authentic tea ceremony (or at
least she shared with them what she could remember). They glazed the
tea bowls, but she found that painting the food with acrylic paint made
it look more authentic. Food can be made with Model magin, air dry clay
or polymer clays too (Sculpey or Fimo)
Makio
Kawashima's student also made fake food - third grade
Helpful Links for Japanese Fake food:
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School Tea Ceremony - by Christa Wise - Imaginative Teapots |
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