Fine Arts: Visual Arts

Standard 1: Understanding and Applying Media, Techniques and Processes

• K-4 - Students use different media, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, experiences and stories.
• 5-8 - Students intentionally take advantage of the qualities and characteristics of art media, techniques and processes to enhance communication of their experiences and ideas.

Standard 3: Choosing and Evaluating a Range of Subject Matter, Symbols and Ideas

• K-4 - Students select and use subject matter, symbols and ideas to communicate meaning.
• 5-8 - Students integrate visual, spatial and temporal concepts with content to communicate intended meaning in their artworks.

Source: National Standards for Arts Education

Although each Ellison die-cut is attractive on its own, a layered Child, Baseball that has been "dressed" in a variety of shirts, caps and pants, adds lots of color and personality to a bulletin board!

Layering, or embellishing, is not as complicated as it might look. It is just a matter of leaving one die-cut whole and trimming away parts of other die-cuts and adhering them on top of the whole die-cut.

(Figure A)

(Figure B)

(Figure C)

(Figure D)

Note: Any Sports die can be used to create this project.

Supplies Used: Cardstock, Colored Pens, Double-Sided Tape, Glue, Scissors

The teacher will die-cut the materials for student use prior to the lesson.

1. Die-cut the Child, Baseball shape in six different colors. Colors would be for the skin, cap, shirt, pants, shoes & mitt.
2. One of these die-cuts will be left whole (skin color) and the other die-cuts will be cut (Figure A).
   • TIP: To determine which die-cut will remain whole, look at the shape as if it were real. The part that remains whole is the part that would be farthest away. For example, the little boy would be behind his clothes!
3. Tape a piece of white construction paper behind the hole in the mitt representing the "baseball" (Figure A).
4. Take the red Child, Baseball die-cut and trim the "shirt" off. Be careful to go around the hand. Adhere the shirt to the "skin-colored" die-cut (Figure B).
5. Take the dark blue die-cut and trim the shoes off. Adhere the shoes to the "skin-colored" die-cut.
   • TIP: When only a small part of a die-cut is used in layering, the paper only needs to cover the part of the die that will be layered. In this case, the black paper would only need to cover the "feet" part of the die-cut when cutting (Figure C).
     
6. Trim the "pants" from the blue die-cut being careful that the pants overlap the shoes. Adhere the trimmed blue pants to the Child using glue, double-sided tape, or other adhesive.
   
7. Trim the "cap" from the yellow die-cut and adhere it to the Child (Figure D).
   
8. Trim the "baseball mitt" from the tan die-cut. Trim the "cap brim" and "button" from the orange die-cut. Adhere these shapes to the layered die-cut (see Main Photo).
   
9. Additional detail may be added with the use of metallic or colored pens. Red dotted lines can be added to the "baseball." Back the eyeholes with colored or white paper. If using white paper, add a pupil with pen.