6th Grade Pop Art Project # 3

ONOMATOPOEIA... say what?!?  We have gotten to the third and final pop art project in 6th grade. For this project we focused on the onomatopoeia aspect of pop art. Students learn about it in their 6th grade English classes, so I try to reiterate that information in here. 

We begin by talking about the artist Roy Lichtenstein. 

Then we talk about what Onomatopoeia is, I always show them a few silly videos about it:

Then they begin a torn paper newspaper collage. I tell them they only want black and white print, no pictures and no color. 

Once that is complete, they choose a word to illustrate. we talk about different fonts that will make an impact with their word. 

They draw it in bubble/block letters and color using one color and outline using a second color. 

• They cut out their word and glue it to their newspaper collage. 
• They cut their collage edges in an interesting way and glue it to colored paper

• They cut the colored paper in the same way they cut their collage, leaving a line of color going around their collage.

• They glue their paper down one more time on a different color of paper. 

• They use black paint and the eraser end of a pencil to create ben-day dots on the last piece of colored paper.