Pull String Art

ISL Dixon

Kindergarten Science and Visual Arts

Jeremy Marie and Paul Malbrough Jr

The kindergarten classes were learning about the effects of pushing and pulling. So i decided to do a lesson incorporating pull string art. Zeb observed me do this lesson earlier in the week and gave me some great feedback on how to improve it. I specifically went over contrast with the students before allowing them to choose two contrasting colors for their inks. I then allowed the students to play around with the arrangements of the strings while watching how said placements affected the outcomes of their fellow classmates. The students were so excited to pull the strings and see what the results that their decisions produced. I then told them to add other drawn elements to the works in either similar or contrasting colors. The students then played a game of describing what they saw in each other’s art. This lead to some interesting conversation on perception in the following class.