Helen Hume

Finnick Vest, Jessica Bowlby,

and Trinity Arend
Life
1. Art educator pre K - graduate
✗ International Schools
✗ Belgium
✗ Brazil

2. Works with apprentice art teachers

3. College/Education
✗ Het Vrij Atelier - Antwerp, Belgium
✗ Studied painting

4. Webster University

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Achievements
1. Prizes/Awards
✗ Painting, printmaking, photography

2. Single-person exhibitions & group exhibitions

3. Participates in:
✗ The board of Governors of the St. Louis Artists’
Guild
✗ Education committee of the St. Louis Art Museum

4. Author of 6 books
Books
1. The Art Teacher’s Book of Lists

2. The Art Lover’s Almanac

3. A Survival Kit for the Elementary/Middle School Art Teacher

4. Survival Kit for the Secondary School Art Teacher

5. American Art Appreciation Activities Kit: Ready-to-Use Lessons,

Slides and Projects for Grades 7-12

6. Art History & Appreciation Activities Kit: Ready-to-Use Lessons,

Slides, and Projects for Secondary Students
Kindergarten
Key Points!

- it’s all about them

- very short attention span
- little sense of scale

What can they do?

- take care of materials

- manipulate clay into simple shapes
- talk about their art and other’s 5 Years Old

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Suggestions!
- Allow them to experiment

- Explain things thoroughly (step-by-step)

- Celebrate the individual but tie it in

First Grade
Key Points!

- beginning to work with others successfully

- they exaggerate what's important
- they love their work and want you to as
well

What can they do?

- control a paint brush

- make simple monoprints 6-7 Years Old
- weave paper in simple patterns

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Suggestions! https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=Cg6KIKURQuU
- Go step by step

- Introduce vocabulary (line,

rhythm, shape & Space) and
have them identify

- Encourage them to talk about

their artwork and other’s
Second Grade
Key Points!

- Confident and helpful

- Open to new experiences
- They are noticing more details in their surroundings 7-8 Years Old

What can they do?

- Understand scale
- Use pressure to change value
- Assist in getting materials out and clean up

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Suggestions!
- let them play with mixed media

- introduce paint mixing

- recognize art from different cultures

Third Grade
Key Points!

- Enthusiastic but anxious to please 8-9

- Crisis of realism begins to set in Year
s Ol
- tend to separate themselves by gender d

What can they do?

- Layer colors
- Use real and invented texture
- Understand warm and cool colors

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Suggestions!
- Teach them to evaluate their work

- Discuss proportions

- Talk about works of art and three dimensional

sculptures
Fourth Grade
Key Points!

- Developing sense of humor

1 0 Y ea rs Old
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- Compare their work to peer’s work
- View art without deeming it “good” or “bad”

What can they do?

- Create illusion of space

- Make a value scale
- Fold origami shapes

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 Suggestions!
- Avoid copying

- Introduce still lifes and decision making

- Learn to look when drawing (draw what

they see, not what they know)
 Fifth Grade
Key Points!

- Love designing
- Eager to help
- Crisis of realism part two
- begin to display giftedness or lack of confidence

Old
What can they do? 10-11 Years

- Identify symbols
- Create assemblages from found objects
- Recognize how color creates mood

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 Suggestions!
- Let them point out successes or weaknesses in work

- Research projects

- Introduce one and two point perspective

Sixth Grade
Key Points!

- Think they know it all

- begin mood swings
- Love to be independent of adults
- Interested in learning about artists

What can they do?

- Create different types of line with 11-12 Years Old

computer software
- Control ink wash
- Make a cardboard relief

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Suggestions!
- Base projects on the self

- Help develop abstract thinking by

assigning several three dimensional
projects

- Take them outside of the classroom

to draw
Seventh Grade
Key Points!

- Become more aware of physical appearance

- Want to be seen as an adult
- sensitive to peer pressure and want to fit in

What do they know?

- Make a relief block print

- Use hatching
- quilt
- Use personal experiences in art
12-13 Years Old
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Suggestions!
- Encourage photography

- Give open ended assignments

- Allow more freedom in media choice

- Compare and contrast artworks

Eighth Grade
13-14 Years Old
Key Points!
- Highly self-conscious
- Helpful and inquisitive
- Interested in their personal lives
- Sensitive to critique

What can they do?

- understand book arts
- represent something realistically
- can interpret the meaning of artwork

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Suggestions!
- Give open ended assignments expressing mood

- Personalize projects or have them make “real” pieces

such as jewelry and posters

- More art history!

 Works Cited
● Hume, H. D. (2010). The Art Teachers
Book of Lists. San Francisco, CA:
Jossey-Bass.