Bright and Colorful Onomatopoeias in Mixed Media
This 3-step art lesson combines language arts with art to create bright and colorful onomatopoeias in mixed media. Using mixed media is one of my favorite projects to do because your students can get really creative with their artwork. Here’s how easy it is to merge the arts with another important subject.
Why use onomatopoeias?
Onomatopoeias are words that sound like they are referring to, which can make for some pretty cool artwork. It only takes a few examples to teach students what this means and have them brainstorm words they’d like to use for creating their mixed media artwork.
My students decided to go with words like boing, clap, swish, zoom, beep, roar, and the like. Keep reading to see the three easy steps I walked them through to create amazingly colorful art.
Bright and Colorful Onomatopoeias in Mixed Media
For the first step, I provided students with old magazines. They needed to find pages with text only, which would be used only for shape directly behind the word.
For the second step, students drew and cut out the word of their choice. Be sure to have them practice drawing first to get the right size and shape. You can have them do this on regular white paper.
For the third and last step, students cut out their word drawings and pasted them onto the magazine text page. That was also cut in a unique shape as well. Both were then glued to a piece of colored construction paper.
Final Thoughts
The students and I both were thrilled with how these turned out. We used them to decorate our art wall in the hallway at school so others could see them as well. If you don’t have an art wall in your hallway, use them to decorate your classroom door or the bulletin board in your classroom.
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