March 14: Seduwatte Class Introduction
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Let’s Build Great Things! is not a regular art class - we use our artistic skills to look at the world differently and to design solutions to some problems that we face. We hope today’s class will show you that we can do more with art. We will play art games, have fun and also learn to be team players.
This program is will happen every Saturday, 2-5pm between March 14-June 27.
Our theme for the semester is ‘play and games’:
Throughout this term we will play games: board games, arcade games, art games and observe how it works and then design our own games.
A real game designer will visit our class later on to help us
At the end of the semester we will invite our families and have a game night.
Trips
We will visit excel world to see and play arcade games
We will go to Hatch Makerspace to learn how machines are used to game parts can be prototyped in the real world.
Our class is free but in return we ask:
Please come on time for class
Please bring a drawing book, water bottle, pencils, colors, eraser and ruler
Please tidy up before leaving the class
Participate in all the sessions, and only be absent for a good reason
Any student who participates in more than 8 sessions will receive a certificate and a token.
Class Values:
Your voice matters- share your opinions
It’s ok to try and fail- that’s how we learn
There is no right or wrong answer
Be kind to each other and support
How to give feedback?
We will have a suggestion box at the class for you to give anonymous suggestions. please feel free to tell us anything and we will keep note of your ideas for the class. Tell us what you like and don’t like and what you want more of.
Intro Game 1: Draw an Exquisite Corpse (collaborative drawing)
An exquisite corpse is an old game that used to be played by folding a paper in 3 and assigning 3 different people a head, a torso and legs. They often look like silly monsters, like this:
1. Do an example ‘exquisite corpse’ on the whiteboard to explain the concept. You can ask different students to draw the head, torso and legs.
2. Ask the class to take the sheet of paper in front of them and fold it into 3. Like a zig zag.
3. At the top of the paper, draw a head, it can be a person, a bird, a monster or an animal. After the drawing is done, leave a small hint on the next fold of the drawing. (5 mins)
4. Fold the drawing, and pass the drawing to a different student at random. (You can ask them to keep passing the drawing to the left until you say 'STOP!'
5. Draw the torso, leaving a little hint at the bottom of the page (5 mins)
6. Pass it to another student, by passing drawings to the right until you stay stop.
7. Draw the legs (5 mins)
8. Open the drawing and see the result!
9. Repeat and decorate as desired.
Intro Game 2: A game of Rules
Can you give clear instructions to get the drawing result you want? In this session, we will learn to visualise our ideas by being very specific with our instructions, a communication lesson good for all of us.
Step 1: Ask the students to take a sheet of paper. Teacher instructs students:
1. Draw four straight lines from one end of the page to the other.
2. Draw five circles anywhere on the page.
3. Draw a squiggly line through all five circles.
4. Colour inside two of the circles with colours and patterns of your choice.
Step 2: teacher demonstrate this first before asking students
1, Take another sheet of paper
2. Sit back to back with a friend.
3. Instruct the other to make a drawing.
4. Swap roles and make a drawing according to your friend's instructions.
Final discussion: Students sit in a circle or face each other
What did you think would happen?
What really happened?
What surprised you?
What would you change next time?