Monday's art lesson was centered around this idea...
In the morning, I took a few students at a time to use a straw to blow a drop of ink across a blank piece of paper. I didn't tell the students why, just that it had to do with our art lesson in the afternoon.
At the beginning of our art lesson, I read the book, Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fZjMYdQjGM
I reminded the students how I often ask them to try and turn mistakes into part of their artwork. I then showed the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K93mGzVk8VY
The children soon realized what they had to do with their ink splatter that was created in the morning. They went off, talked to their friends, turned papers this way and that until they settled on what creation they had in mind. Here are a few:
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