How to Draw Your Name in the Shape of a Fish Art Lesson

Name Design Projects

Proper name designs are a great way to begin the year. This gives you an opportunity to connect the names with the students. Projects always come out successful. You might also desire students to research the meaning of their name. Links below.

Cake Proper name Blueprint Project from Debbie Bridges

Procedure:

1. Fold Paper horizontally in half (xviii" or 45.7 cm) and repeat folding into fourths.

2. Open up upward and now fold vertically in half (12" or xxx.5 cm) and repeat folding into fourths

3. Open up your paper and yous should have 4 rectangles by eight rectangles.

4. On the creases, draw directly blackness lines with black marker so that the rectangles stand up out. (Use ruler if needed)

5. With pencil print your proper noun in large upper-case letter letters - one in each rectangle. Exercise non skip any rectangles and go along repeating your messages until you run out of rectangles. Large messages (messages should fill the rectangle). Trace with black marker. You will cease with your name not completed in some rows.

6. Design the first letter by adding a simple color or design but you must repeat the exact color for every matching letter.

Submitted by Rebecca Burch Radiating Line - Symmetrical Name This project is done the same equally above. Information technology makes a proficient substitute day lesson. Results ever turn out well. Write name in bubble letters - so outline with radiating lines inside and exterior each alphabetic character till making letters connect. Dissimilarity with radiating lines in the negative space. This student contrasted warm and cool colors. Use crayons, oil pastels or markers.

Materials:

Drawing Newspaper
Medium of your pick [Acrylic Paint, AquaMarkers, Colored Pencils, etc.]
Large Blackness Colored Markers
Rulers/Yardstick/Straight Edge
Cartoon Pencils

Pattern Fish from Marianne Galyk

Students added their name to these patterned fish done in Crow Quill Pens and India ink (or Sharpie markers). 5th graders designed a fish, adding their get-go name in block letters to the blueprint. They then filled ever part of the fish (except their name) with a variety of patterns. Brand these whatsoever size from nine" x 12" to xviii" x 24".

You tin can tweak information technology to be any kind of animal- maybe even let the kiddies cull their "totem creature" (or "spirit fauna" that represents them best - Run across animal symbolism.

Submitted past Lin Alt Radial Pattern Name This lesson can be done with colored pencils, markers or Crayons. Students draw spiraling lines out from heart of square newspaper. Alternate name and patterns in each section. Limit color pallet - repeating colors.

Barbara says students loved the Chalk and Pastels Lesson Idea, and the kids who love cartooning could practice bubble messages in 3-D. Doing their own names seems to eliminate the "fearfulness "of drawing with perspective. Glue outlines could add textural interest.

Submitted past Rebecca sixth grade students looked at and discussed images from Illuminated manuscripts focusing on the Initials at the first of the written sections. They then used their names every bit cocky-portraits by making the offset alphabetic character an Illuminated Initial. They had to include at least 3 miniatures of things to describe them, favorite sport, hobby, their pets, etc. in the first letter. It went rather well, existence as it revolved around them and their interests. The concluding projection was washed on a thicker newspaper and painted with watercolors. Teacher Sample

Submitted by: Ken Schwab Illuminated Name - Calligraphy High School Lesson Ken did a blueprint project with his Art i students - the illumination thought with tempera and ink. They were to utilize their name, showtime or final. First initial had to testify aspects of their personality - identity. The remaining letters had to fit "aesthetically" with the offset letter of the alphabet.

Submitted by: Janet Gall Block Name Pattern Birch Tree Elementary Measure 12 x 18 paper into 3" grid (could fold paper to make grid or mensurate with ruler). Depict one block letter in each cake. Repeat name to fill  folio. Color with warm/cool colors for contrast. Fill negative space with pattern/lines. Color with crayons, oil pastels, markers or colored pencils. This would also make a dainty painting consignment.

	Submitted by: Janet Gall Hand Blueprint with name in complementary colors Students make a tag board hand tracing. Brand a design with hands - overlap that with initials or name in block letters. Easily could too be filled with patterns. Markers, colored pencils or crayons could be used. This item lesson focused on complementary colors.
	Submitted by: Janet Gall Birch Tree Elementary Crayon Engraving Name Blueprint Fifth and sixth grade students learned near the elements and principles of pattern and and so practiced using them. They planned a design with their proper name overlapping geometric shapes. In scratch fine art, the paper is first colored heavily with crayon and then painted black. Students scratched simulated texture into the letters and spaces. Some of them were really creative in coming up with dissimilar textures.
	Submitted by: Janet Gall Birch Tree Elementary Radiating Line Proper noun Design This lesson can be done in markers, crayons or colored pencils. Students write their proper name then outline it with radiating lines around the shape of the name. Each line has a dissimilar design. Warm and cool colors could be emphasized.

Also encounter Alien Proper name Lesson and Insects Name lesson on Incredible Fine art Department

Submitted by: Janet Gall Birch Tree Elementary Proper name Symmetry Monsters This lesson tin can be done with manuscript or cursive letters. Fold your newspaper in one-half horizontally - along length of paper). Write your outset name in cursive (or print) forth the fold. Become over with soft atomic number 82 pencil - transfer to other side past rubbing. Go over lines with black marker. Observe creature inside design. Add boosted designs and lines. Color with selection of medium. Janet'due south students used crayons. Alternate: Go along folded and cut out. Open up and plow information technology over then you don't see your pencil marks. Look at the shape y'all created. Think of how you tin can turn it into a animate being. Use markers (or colored pencils) and gum to a sheet of Construction Paper.

Submitted by: MaryAnn Kohl - Name Flame - Symmetry
Create a reddish-hot flaming design using one's name every bit the underlying ground.

Materials

White Drawing Paper, 8-1/ii"x11" (21.v x 28 cm or larger)
Drawing Pencils
1 stick of blueish or colored Chalk (or Ebony Pencils)
Wooden spoons, Rulers, or wooden arts and crafts sticks
Wide or heavy-tipped black Colored Markers
Crayons in flaming colors (shades of orange, cherry-red, yellow, blueish)
Soft cloth (or facial tissue)
Scissors
Glue Sticks
Black Cartoon Paper, 8-1/ii"x11" (21.five x 28 cm or larger)

Process

1. Fold the paper in half lengthwise (the long manner) matching the corners. Then press the folded border and crease. Open. Flatten the newspaper on the table with the fold running from left to right (the long way).

2. Impress or write a name with pencil on the folded line. Depict the letters in a big plenty pattern to most fill the pinnacle half of the paper. Cursive writing has the well-nigh flame-similar design, but printing will work fine.

3. To transfer the letters to the other half of the paper, trace the pencil messages heavily with dark or colored Chalk (or Ebony/soft pb pencil). And so refold the paper then the letters and chalk are inside the fold. Rub the outside of the paper with the back of a spoon, a ruler, or a wooden craft stick. Peek inside the folded newspaper and see if the letters take transferred to the other side of the folded paper. Keep rubbing until they are well transferred. Then open again.

4. Trace all the letters, both pencil and chalk lines, with a wide blackness mark. (Excessive chalk may first be brushed away with a tissue or soft cloth.)

5. To turn the proper noun design into flames, colour in the spaces with flaming colors like red, orangish, yellow, and blueish (blue is the hottest part of the flame). Depict pointed flame shapes stretching out from the pattern in different flame colors. Attempt mixing more than one crayon color inside the shapes. Colour bright and heavy to brand the colors polish. Rub the flames with a soft material to smoothen them to a shiny end issue.

6. Cutting around the unabridged flaming proper name (Encounter illustration) with a wavy or pointy technique. Gum the name flame to a black background paper and display.

This idea appears in Primary Fine art past MaryAnn Kohl

Proper name Molas Symmetry - from Ellen Silverman

This uses the aforementioned folded technique.

From Ellen: A couple of years agone I started the year off with name projects for grades, 4th - 8th. The eighth form did name molas. Showtime they folded a paper lengthwise and wrote their name in cursive on the folded side. Then they went over their name to make their messages thick. I emphasized that their letters had to go off the page on the fold and then when they cut them out they would have the mirror image of their name cut out also and attached.  This blueprint function was the same for several other of the name related projects, sixth grade did African mask inspired name projection and quaternary grade did insects using their name in this pattern.

Then using their name design, they choose three pieces of construction paper in different colors. They kept one of the colors for the background. They folded the other 2 papers lengthwise and using their pattern cut them out.  They were instructed to keep both the positive and negative areas of these construction papers. Then they took 1 of the newspaper's negative or the area around the name and enlarged the expanse trimming around the shape, taking off almost a quarter of an inch. The positive side, the part with the writing they trimmed also making it smaller.  They then arrange their cut out pieces of their names on the newspaper used for the background, cut into the negative areas of the newspaper to make designs around it.

If anyone does this lesson, please transport an prototype to the Incredible Art Section.

Submitted by Holly Bess Kincade, Dublin Middle School, Dublin, Virginia
Radial Proper name Design

Names are drawn on i/8 pie wedge (on folded half dozen" [15 cm] square) - so transferred to make mirror prototype. The blueprint is then copied all around a 12" (thirty.5 cm) circle. color with colored pencils, markers or crayons. Run across Radial Blueprint lesson plan

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Submitted past: Maria Smith,
J. Thou. Hening Elementary School
Mandala Name Pattern - Radial Symmetry

Integration:

Social Studies (Hindu, Buddhist, Native America, Celtic)

Objectives:

Students will create a square mandala based on the letters of their get-go name.

Supplies:

12x12 (30.5 x 30.v cm) White Drawing Paper, Drawing Pencils, carbon paper (or Saral Transfer Paper), AquaMarkers, Sharpie Fine Betoken Markers

Process:

• Students fold white paper then they have created 8 triangles.

• In only 1 triangle they are to depict the messages of their showtime name—avoid single lines lettering styles.

• Emphasize that the whole triangle must be utilized—top and bottom of the triangular section.

• Distribute carbon paper and explain how this newspaper is used

• The pencils design is folded (diagonally) then that when it is traced, the carbon creates a copy in some other triangle. Place carbon (or Saral Transfer Paper) on table carbon side up - place folded newspaper on carbon so mirror image is created. So fold and trace square symmetrical name pattern into the other sections.

• Afterwards each triangle is traced go over it with a thin black permanent marking. This volition permit the student to see what they are tracing every bit they motility through each triangle.

Markers will then exist used to give color to the design—if 1 letter of the alphabet in the proper noun is colored bluish for example all the residuum of those same letters will exist that color.

From Maggie White:

I did a name pattern lesson similar to Marcia'southward  that came out super! The students had to make the letters touch the sides of the folio, so a lot of negative/positive spaces were created. They filled in the negative spaces with different patterns, and left the letters blank. Cool and unexpected reversal. The students were really into it. It was especially interesting, with all-girl and all-boy classes, to compare the boys' aesthetic sense with the girls. (Maggie did this with 6th grade)

Abstract Pattern From Denise Pannell:

Second graders create abstract name designs. Marker drawing using the letters in their names to grade a design and colored with marker

Variation - Select Words/Truisms instead of Names.

The Discussion as Art - past Marvin Bartel
"Select a discussion or truism and create it out of the something that represents that word. Select something and make a word or truism from it. The word or truism should be anything that they retrieve stands for understanding and progress in the world."

Bread Dough Letters From Jean Wood:

I did a lesson with names the educatee's really enjoyed - A name "sign". The students were given a pre-cutting board, about the size I idea was correct for the length of the individual'due south proper name. The students first sanded the board polish, and screwed in two picayune hooks for hanging the board. Some really loved this process. Then they were given a ball of bread dough clay. They formed messages out of breadstuff dough worms they rolled, making them the right size for the boards they had just sanded. We let the letters sit until dry, then I baked the bread dough letters in the oven until completely dry and difficult. Next class they painted the letters with tempera, then chose a 2d colour and painted the board. More than fourth dimension to let the painted items dry out. Then student'due south glued the painted name onto the board and put a few fancy lines or rick rack around the edges of the lath with paint. With a cord for hanging the boards they were finished!

Name Designs from Sarah Peterson:

Name Collage - basic collage of magazine/photos/letters chosen according to personal interest - I liked starting with this because it's a nice low-pressure level "ease in" to art... kids don't get defenseless up in creating a "perfect" production

Proper noun Transformation - We wait at "custom" alphabets and students make sketches and transform each letter into something that represents an interest... similar making a letter into the shape of family pet or ballet shoes, etc.

Symbolic Easily - This can include a name... I've washed it every bit a wax resist, nosotros talk over symbols in art and look at some various symbolic shapes, designs, so students trace their hands and draw symbols to represent their families, interests, pets, successes... and so practise a watercolor wash over the whole mitt... this also makes a nice display for hallways, bulletin boards...

Name Portrait - Micrography - from Judy Decker

Lesson idea for upper elementary through middle schoolhouse. Take digital photographs of the students - alter to high contrast - or line characteristic - so lines are clear. Outline the main shapes of portrait. Transfer lines to good drawing newspaper using Saral Transfer Paper (or graphite on dorsum). Employ tiny lettering to outline all of the contours (Micrography - tie in Jewish culture besides). Tiny writing would be the name over and over over again - positive character traits - and the meaning of the proper noun. Lettering would be done in Ultra-Fine Point Markers or other choice of pen. Erase Saral transfer graphite lines when finished. Watercolor finished Micrography if desired. If anyone does this lesson - delight send in a sample of student work.

Symbolic Name Blueprint - from Vicki Patterson

Washed with 5th form.  Carve up a 12 x eighteen (30.5 x 46 cm) white Drawing Paper with well-nigh 5 or half-dozen gently curving lines... ordinarily horizontally. With a new have on block or chimera letters, students learn to "fit" their proper name... offset, terminal, nickname, whatever... into the most central long infinite between lines.  I often start with newsprint for an experimental one, so students can get the idea before moving on to white paper.  Afterwards their proper name is in place, we brainstorm things that are unique about each pupil... They compile their own list on scrap paper, and I ask questions like "What's your favorite color, favorite food, favorite sports team, what kinds of things does your family practise together, favorite animal, any pets, favorite things you like to practice in the summer..." the list is endless.  Each of the surrounding "bands" effectually their proper noun created by the wavy lines must and then exist filled in with patterns created by visual cues or symbols to tell about themselves (based on the list they created) no words are allowed! The results are amazing!

Notan Name Blueprint - from Michael Gerrish

Students practice the "expanding the square" Notan lesson using letters of their name for design. Letters tin be glued raised upward for a relief/3-D pattern. Run into Notan lesson plan for details.

License Plate Name Design

Riverdeep Newsletter ran several days of name lesson ideas. One that I retrieve was for center school to high school. A license plate design using numbers and letters of significance. Middle school students could do these as their fine art ID card for signing out supplies (someone posted that idea not as well long ago). Students write a reflection on what the numbers and letters mean.

Proper noun Design using PC paint- Carolyn Roberts
For a name design using technology - Endeavor Carolyn Robert's lesson
http://cyber.lenoir.k12.nc.u.s.a./khs/croberts/othername.html (Archive) You tin can also download the lesson in Word format: http://ms084.k12.sd.us/docs/Name%20Design.doc
You can exercise this with depression tech besides - designing one name - then copying it (by tracing -- OR even using photocopier) to end the blueprint.

LETTERING LESSON PLANS

Lettering lessons for high schoolhouse that you can pace down to middle school and fifty-fifty uncomplicated:

Ken Schwab'due south Abstract Letter Pattern

Ken Schwab's Illuminated Crayon Resist Letters

Heart Schoolhouse Lessons

Meet Kara LiCausi'southward Illumination lesson for middle school:
kara-man.htm (Scroll downward)

Heather Leal'south Illumination for Middle Schoolhouse

Jennie Auble' Graffiti Name Blueprint

gyre downward to color cycle name design

Elementary Lesson Plans:

Grid Name Design
January Hillmer does this equally the starting time lesson on calculator. You tin can apply any graphics/drawiing software.

Radial Proper noun Design
Radial Name Blueprint - Sketchbook covers

3-D Proper name Design
Name Aliens
Proper noun Insects

MEANING OF NAMES

Backside the Name (first names) http://www.behindthename.com/

Behind the Proper name (last names) http://surnames.behindthename.com/

Native American Names and Meanings

Here is an Islamic names site:
http://world wide web.muslim-names.co.uk/alphabetize.php
Not as all-encompassing listing:
http://www.islamfortoday.com/male_names.htm [Archive]
http://www.islamfortoday.com/female_names.htm [Archive]

mooremakest.blogspot.com

Source: https://www.incredibleart.org/files/names.htm

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