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Roy Lichtenstein POP Art
Roy Lichtenstein is well known for his comic book inspired art pieces. You can give your teens a mini art history lesson and unmask the irony and humor behind Lichtenstein's work or you can just mimic his Pop Art style.
Find black and white drawings or coloring book pages. Lichtenstein used common images found in pop culture like advertisements, children's books and comic books, so encourage teens to do so as well. Color the pictures using bold colors and dots. A ruler may help make steady rows of dots, but isn't necessary.
Another option is to take a popular storybook image and recolor it in primary colors and adding a speech bubble caption like Lichtenstein did for his painting, Look Mickey.
Unmask Your TALENT Show
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Singing
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Dancing
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Playing an Instrument
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Reciting Poetry
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Comedy Routine
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Magic Tricks
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Balloon Animals
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Juggling
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Caricature Drawing
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Ventriloquism
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Impressions
Allow your teens to shine by hosting a talent show. If you are going to judge the event consider asking local "celebrities" to do the judging.
If you really want to unmask talent, don't let your contestants prepare. Instead, at the start of the event, have your teens draw their "talent" for the evening from a hat you have prepared with unique talents. Allow your teens 5 to 10 minutes to practice or prepare their act. Continue the show acting as if each performer has been sharing their talent with audiences since birth.
Unmask the TRIVIA Answers
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The CSLP manual includes a Jeopardy style trivia game using PowerPoint. If you don't have a projector to show the gameboard it is suggested to use a chalkboard or bulletinboard with the questions covered by paper with the point total written on them.
If you don't want to focus primarily on answering Trivia questions, include multiple rounds with one round of Pictionary drawing topics relating to all types of heroes (fire truck, hospital, batmobile, jail, telephone booth, zombie, badge) one round of Scattegories having to complete a list of answers starting with a certain letter (super power, healthy food, part of a workout routine, name of a villain) and one round of Charades acting out topics (Homerun hitter, nurse, x-ray vision).
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Techniques In MASKING Art
A mask works a lot like a stencil, however, a mask covers your surface or image and acts as a resist to keep your medium or glue from overlapping onto that area.
Bleach T-Shirts are a good way to demonstrate a mask. Because it is difficult to have the right sizes on hand and it can be costly, ask teens to provide their own t-shirt or tank top.
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Find an image you would like to use for your shirt.
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Draw or trace the image on a thick sturdy paper or cereal box and cut it out.
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Put a piece of cardboard between the layers of your t-shirt so the bleach doesn't bleed to the back of the shirt.
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Fill a spray bottle with a mixture of 60% bleach and 40% water.
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Lay your mask where you want the image on your shirt. To make sure it is secure and won't lift up, you may tack it in place with double stick tape.
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Using the bleach mixture, spray around the mask. Black or dark colored shirts will show results more quickly than colored shirts, but they all turn out really neat.
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UNMASK your artwork.
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Bleach will brake down the fabric over time, dipping the shirt in a peroxide bath after spraying may help the bleaching process and make the shirt last longer.
Another great mask to use for painting... MASKING TAPE!
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Cover your canvas, fiberboard, or paper with strips of masking tape.
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Paint each open space a different color or paint randomly all over the canvas.
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Carefully UNMASK your artwork by lifting off the tape.
from the blog "the embellished nest"
Unmask the MYSTERY party
As the CSLP manual states on PAGE 68, mystery parties can be a big draw for teens. You can find mystery parties from the 2006 and 2009 CSLP manual to use. You can also buy kits online.
Getting creative with PERLER beads
