Name Tag

This lesson was taken from Deep Space Sparkle, which has helped me so so much! My fourth grade class began the year making these Name Tags. They are all so different and I will try to post more pictures. It's amazing how you go into a lesson with requirements and they change when the students start to create. The process was:

1. Write your name in an interesting way up, down or across the page in block letters.
2. Outline pencil lines in black marker and fill in letters with color.
3. Create pattern around letters but not IN letters.

Most students followed this, but they had a hard time grabbing the concept. It was a lot of no don't do this do that, but then I sort of gave up and let their imaginations take over. I just kept hearing "but isn't art about being creative?" So, yes I gave in and let them go to town.