Beautiful Oops :)

This was such a fun lesson and really opened the student's eyes, with lessons learned of adjusting our mistakes that we make in art, and life. 

We talked about how most times when mistakes happen it's a surprise, so we have to learn to adjust out minds to making it work for us, not against us.

We read Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg. The kids really enjoyed how interactive the book was. The major lesson that they took from it is to see your mistakes as opportunities for creativity. We all loved the touchable “oopses” in this book, like the tear of a piece of paper in the book that becomes the smile of a happy dog when you turn the page!

The lesson objective was that the students will create a piece of artwork that shows how mistakes can be made into something beautiful. 

I would totally recommend this book to anyone. It's one of my favorites of all time. :)

 

After reading the book, I showed them my example of my Beautiful Oops and all the different ways I incorporated different "oopsies" into my collage. (Rips, stains, drips, tears, bends, folds, etc.) Then we talked about how these took on a whole new life of their own in their new form of a collage. I talked about how my biggest oopsies became my most favorite parts.

The students then went back to their tables where I distributed a bunch of "mistakes" or "oops'" on their tables and they were to come up with their own piece of art in the form of a collage. 

  Here one student used the ripped pieces of paper and tissue, magazine clippings, and added details with markers and chalk pastels .

I'm noticing a lot of hearts on a lot of their pictures! :) This makes me happy.