STUDIO KIDS CREATIVE THEMES 2016
WEEK 1:
CAN YOU DIG IT?
Stuff from the 1970s, hieroglyphs, sand mandalas, learn how canyons are made and paint a
canyon wall, etc. 1970s music, disco. “Kung Fu Fighting” was 1974 Grammy winner…will be
fun!
WEEK 2:
GOING NATIVE
Learn about SC Indian tribes like the Kiawah, Edisto and Wando. Create a dream catcher
with twine and feathers. Draw totem poles using faces of your family. Learn to draw a tree
and embellish with Spanish moss. Ever play a bucket drum? Listen to and learn a Native
American song.
WEEK 3:
ROCKIN’ IT!
Celebrating rock and roll music and the album covers that came with it. Cover artists include
Warhol and Pollock. Create your own album cover. Possibly create Studio Kids album cover
in the spirit of Sgt. Pepper’s LHC Band with photos of all the kids. Learn to draw the KISS
logo! Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll” will be fun.
WEEK 4:
FOODIES
Paint with food and food derived dyes like coffee, tea, beet juice, blueberries, etc. Stamping
with apples or potatoes. Songs like “Buttered Popcorn” by the Supremes would be fun. Or
“Eat It” by Weird Al. Draw abstract Strawberry Fields Forever to learn perspective. Draw in
flour. Paint the Warhol soup cans.
WEEK 5:
THE BIG APPLE
Everything New York: hip hop, graffiti, Sinatra, skylines. Learn about silhouettes, 1 point
perspective. Learn to draw the TNMTs and learn about the public art of manhole covers!
Maybe “One Bad Apple” by Michael Jackson.
WEEK 6:
IT’S GROOVY
It’s the 60s, man! Paisley, tie dye, polka dots, bubble art, droodles. “Aquarius/Let the
Sunshine In, by the 5th
​​dimension could be tied to drawing our horoscope sign. Alcohol ink
on tiles (looks like tie dye.)
WEEK 7:
A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY
This may be our paper mache’ week…paper mache’ cow or pig. Learn about cowboy stuff,
art of the Old West (Frederick Remington, Norman Rockwell’s cowboys). Draw a cowboy
boot, hat, campfire. Music of Johnny Cash to real rodeo star/musicians like Chris LeDoux
(famous duet with Garth Brooks).
WEEK 8:
JAZZ IT UP
Everything New Orleans and funky, Kansas City Jazz and Blues and Indianapolis’s
Crossroads of jazz. Matisse strongly influenced by jazz music so we will recreate his paper
cutouts of Icarus. Study rhythm in art used in action painter Jackson Pollack. Create Pollack
style shirts.
WEEK 9:
ALO-O-O-O-HA!
Everything Hawaiian or Polynesian including tribal tattoo designs, native flora and fauna.
Sculpt fish hook necklaces from clay. Paint the state fish, humuhumunukunukuapua’a (reef
triggerfish) with watercolor resist technique. Music from Don Ho’s “Tiny Bubbles” to Israel
K’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”.