(cheery music) - Hello, early learners and welcome back to the art room.

Special day today, Clementine Hunter's birthday.

She would be 101 if she were around here.

But we're going to talk about her art today and we're going to talk about the print called Memory House.

And we're going to sing a hello first before we get started.

Ready?

♪ Hello, nice to see you, everyone ♪ ♪ Hello, nice to see you, everyone ♪ ♪ Hello to you.

Hello to you ♪ ♪ Hello to you.

Hello to me ♪ ♪ Hello, nice to see you, everyone ♪ All right, boys and girls, we have a book that is a rhyming book.

And if you know how to rhyme, we usually do this little hand motion like this.

It's a word, a word, you say both on the clap and you do your hands out like this.

So if I tell you the word boring, have you ever heard of that word?

I don't think I've ever been bored because I always can think of something fun to do.

But if someone says chore is a bore, doing a chore is a bore.

And chore is the word we can say for any little jobs you do around your house.

So if we say chore, bore, they both say or.

We say what's at the end of the word that makes it rhyme.

Try it with me.

Chore, bore.

They both say or.

Well, this one, I even sing it when I read it.

But I think maybe I better read it first.

Maybe I'll sing part of it to you so that you know what it sounds like.

But Chores, Chores, Chores, and look at this girl's face.

Does it look like she's enjoying the idea of chores?

If someone's face is like this, what do you think they're saying?

That they don't like it very much.

So Clementine Hunter had so many chores on the plantation and oftentimes they wouldn't pay her.

She would just get to live on the land there in that house.

So she would cook and clean in the big house and then she would pick the cotton.

And sometimes she picked pecans, which I think we're doing on Friday that pecan picking, she would do laundry.

They'd have to wash the sheets.

When any artist came to stay at the plantation, when they'd leave, they take the sheets off the bed and they'd wash them in a big, hot black kettle, fire underneath, and they'd use a big paddle and stirred it around.

And it would be very hard on their hands because they'd put something called lye in there and it would make the sheets get super clean, but it was hot and it hurt their hands.

So that's why they'd use a stick.

But let's take a look at Chores, Chores, Chores by Selena Yoon.

Let me turn sideways like this so you can see, try and make it so it's not shiny.

Cause she has her face is shiny and the book isn't so shiny in the back.

Chores, Chores, Chores.

And I hope when I call out the two words, you will call out the rhyming and do your hands.

Cause I can't hold the book and do the rhyming actions together.

Oh, one of her chores is to rake, I can tell already.

Chores, Chores, Chores.

Take a look, her dog walked in and made all these footprints along there.

So what does she have to get out?

Excuse me.

The vacuum cleaner.

So listen to this, chores, chores, chores.

What a bore, bore, bore.

She thinks it's boring.

So I say, chores, chores, chores.

What a bore, bore, bore.

Wonder what another chore she has to do.

She has to dust.

I hate to dust, dust, dust, but I must, must, must.

And she says, achoo!

She had to sneeze because this feather duster is making all the dust go up in the air.

So you can say dust, must.

They both say ust.

Here she is with that vacuum.

It's even bigger than she is.

I hate to vroom, vroom, vroom, every room, room, room.

The dog is covering his head with a pillow.

I don't think he likes the noise either.

Let's say vroom, room.

They both say oom, ready?

Vroom, room.

They both say, oom.

What's the next chore?

I wonder if it's one you do.

Oh, she's doing all the windows.

I hate to wipe, wipe, wipe, so I gripe, gripe, gripe.

And gripe means complain.

So she's saying, oh, I don't like doing this.

All this dirt is everywhere.

The dog's paws are up on the sliding glass door and she asked to wipe it off.

I was going to say something about the word hate.

I hardly ever use hate because it's such a strong word, but it's in the book, so I'm reading it.

She said, I hate to rake, rake, rake.

I need a break, break, break.

Let's do the rhyme.

Rake, break.

They both say ache.

She doesn't have to do the laundry, put it in the washer and dryer, but she has to fold it.

So she says, I hate to fold, fold, fold.

It's getting old, old, old.

What are the two rhymes?

Fold, old.

They both say old.

Oh look, the dog has a purple sock across his nose.

Do you see the matching one?

Yup, there it is.

Tomorrow when we do the wash day, I brought a bunch of different socks that we need to sort.

Oh, she doesn't do the dishes.

She doesn't have to wash them, but she has to dry them.

I hate to dry, dry, dry, but I try, try, try.

What are the two rhyming words?

Dry, try.

They both say I. Oh, she's getting the dirt out of the dogs fur.

So she's using a brush.

I hate to brush, brush, brush in a rush, rush, rush.

Do you know why she has to rush?

Because the dog tries to get away from her when she's brushing.

What are the two rhymes?

Brush, rush.

They both say ush.

Her pillow gets flat when she puts her head on it at night.

So she needs to fluff it up.

She says, I hate to fluff, fluff, fluff.

It makes me huff, huff, huff.

And we remember huffing from the Big, Bad Wolf.

He huffs and he puffs.

So what are the two rhymes?

Fluff, huff.

They both say uff.

Oh, and here's what we're going to talk a little bit about, a chore chart.

She said I hate chores, but when I'm done, done, done.

What rhymes with done that makes her happy?

She gets to have fun.

When I'm done done, done, I have fun, fun, fun.

And that's the way it usually is in families.

They usually say, get your chores done first and then you can have fun.

And you can say to them done, fun.

They both say un.

And that is the end of our book, Chores, Chores, Chores.

Now the reason I chose that book is because this project that we're looking at today is called Memory House.

And it is what Clementine did.

She drew her house in the middle of the little house shape.

And then she did her chores around it.

So I thought that would be fun if we did that.

We can draw our house in the middle of our pink paper and then we'll draw any chores we do.

Like I have to make sure I water my garden.

I have to do the laundry.

Oh, I have to do everything because I live in a house that I take care of all by myself.

But you get to do different chores.

I have to fold the socks.

I have to do all kinds of things.

So I'm going to think about a few chores that I want to draw about.

And you'll think of what you want to do too.

But first we're going to cut our paper.

Let me get down our inspiration.

The memory, the memory, ooh, is it going to try and rip it?

Don't rip the print.

Oh, tiny bit.

Let's get my table up and my pink paper.

I told you I was bringing a ruler.

It's not necessary if you don't have one because you know how to fold your paper and you know how to cut it.

So I'm going to get my scissors.

I'll use my ruler.

Now, the reason I brought the ruler is because we are going to make this pink paper into a house shape the way that Clementine did to hers.

Now, in order to make this a little easier on us, I'll show you what I thought we could do.

You can see where the roof line is right there.

It's really, let me show you.

We'll put my pink taper down.

It's really a square with a triangle, but the tip is cut off.

So that's what we're going to do.

Watch how I'm going to do it.

I'm going to make a little fold where the roof would be.

So I kind of see where my square is and then I make a little line there and I fold it pretty good.

Not real, real tight down on the fold.

Then I do a little place in half, but don't fold it all the way down.

Just a tiny pinch at the top to see where the middle is.

Now, I am going to take my ruler and go from the corner where I folded it up to that little pinched part.

So I have to find it boys and girls and put my ruler right there.

And right, oh it's so light this pink paper.

I better get my pencil and put a little dot where that is because I can't see it very well.

Even though the lights in the studio are very bright.

I'm going to put my pencil on that little pinch mark, and I'll go down to this.

Oh, that was a good move.

And then I'll go here and go up to that little pinch mark.

That makes it a perfect roof.

But remember this one is flat.

Do you want yours to be flat?

You'll cut off that corner.

And cut off the corner.

And if you want it to be a flat top, just make a little flat top on fold like this and cut off that little fold.

If you want it to look like Clementine's house.

There, that looks pretty good.

Now on her project, her memory house, she put her house right in the middle.

Now she didn't put the big house on there, but she made a little white fence all the way cross with a gate that goes up to the big house and she has trees around there.

Let me look and I'll tell you what projects she does.

I see that she does the laundry and there's a clothesline there.

There's someone standing sideways with that big black pot to do the wash.

There's a path that's going up here and it looks like they are carrying in things from the garden.

Up here, he's carrying in some melons.

Over here, there's a basket, a wagon full of melons.

And down here, she has pineapples on top of her head.

So kind of see where the middle of your paper is and you can use your pencil.

But I like to use my colored pencils and I brought both types.

I brought my watercolor pencils so that when I make a tree, I can draw the brown and then paint the green on it.

So I'm going to move these up here.

And you know, I have my other regular colored pencils that do not change when I add water to them.

But that's how I'm going to draw my house in the middle is with my regular ones.

I'm not going to paint them in.

I live in a stone house, so I'm going to make my house in the middle.

I'm going to make the stone sides and I have a porch on there.

So I'm just going to go straight across and make a rectangle.

You make your house however your house looks.

I have a part that has one roof with a little curve there.

And my door has a fan kind of window, a half moon window.

And then it has another roof over here.

So I'm making my house about this big.

You decide how big you want your house and do you want it in the middle?

I think the middle looks good, but you decide if you like that idea.

I'm going to put the big window that's in front of the living room and then do my stones.

They look kind of like bricks, but they really are stone.

So I'm gonna put the stones on there and I'll color those in.

And I'm going across and making them on the other side too.

So there we go.

And my house has a metal roof right in front.

So you can see, I will do some of my stones.

I'll color them in.

Some are brown.

I'll do a couple of them with the brown and then I'll change pencils.

Instead of doing one, then changing the pencil, then doing another and changing the pencil and doing another and changing the pencil.

I did a few coloring them in.

You can make your house a brick house if you like how that looks and you think that looks fun.

It doesn't have to look exactly like your house.

You can make it however you want.

And if you live in apartment, yours is going to be tall.

Usually apartments have more than one floor up.

And some of my bricks are kind of a reddish color.

The stone, some have a reddish, some are kind of a dark, dark, dark green.

You decide how you want to do your house.

And then we're going to talk about the chores.

I'll show you my chore chart.

Oh, I don't want to do blueberry.

Sometimes the green looks like blue to me on these dark colors.

Oh, that green one looks good there.

So you're just going to decorate your house and take your time because we're not rushing to try and get finished.

We want to take our time because it looks so much better when we spend time on this.

And if it's not a project you wanted to do, then don't do it.

Don't just do it in a hurry.

If you don't like it, just think, oh, I'll watch them do it.

Maybe I'll do it another day.

But with art, it's a good idea to spend your time and make it look really nice because when people look at it, you want them to say, oh, I like how you did the metal roof.

Oh, I should put my metal roof.

It's kind of a green gray.

So I'm going to put gray first and then I'll color green over the top of it.

Maybe I'll tip my table down so you can see it a little better.

I'll have to hold onto the pencil so they don't go flying off.

And I'll put the green over the top of it, put those back.

Do you notice that mine has, my colored pencils have little places and it tells you put the gray here, put the green there.

I think I better put my chimney up here so that it gets its color too.

And I'll put the green under because the one in the back kind of looks more shaded.

Cause I have two garages back there.

One's a tiny garage where I keep all of my books for PBS and the other side has my car.

But the one that all my PBS things, it has also, I have lots of bicycles.

Bicycling is one of my favorite things.

So I have a dark green door.

I'll color that in.

I hope you're spending time doing your colors, the right colors, boys and girls, and getting an idea of how your house can really look like your own house, if that's what you've chosen.

My door has lots of little boxes on it, but I'm just going to color it solid.

And right now it has white lights all around the door so that when the people deliver my packages, they think I'm having a party in there.

There we go.

Okay, there's most of my house is done.

I'm going to make a pathway, but I told you, we would look at the chore chart.

Let me move my pencils aside for just a minute cause I want to show you also how I'm doing my tree.

Here's the chore chart.

I'm going to move it down to the table so that you can see it.

In some families, they have a chart that tells you what your chores are today.

Are you a person who makes your bed in the morning and brushes your teeth and gets dressed and picks up your toys?

Sometimes people have you put a check or a little magnet over the top of it.

You can make a chore chart so that you can remember what your jobs are each day and you don't think, oh, I've gone to school and I'd forgot to brush my teeth.

But if every day you put a little dot over the top and take it off at the end.

And then in the afternoon, do you bring your backpack home and take out all your things out of it?

Make sure your family sees any kinds of papers they want to sign or see all your work.

That's important job is to put your backpack away.

Then you might need to straighten up your room, if you've played in there.

Of course take a bath, so you're fresh and clean, so your teacher says, hmm, you smell like the tub.

That's what I had to say to one of the men who work at the studio today, he smelled like the forest and I said, you smell like the forest.

And it made him smile.

Cause it feels good to be clean and to let people see how great you smell.

And do you read a book to yourself each night before you go to sleep?

Now, some families say good for you.

And they tell you, thank you for doing those chores.

In some families, you get to earn things.

They say, if you do all your jobs every day and without any complaining.

They say, maybe we'll get a fish.

You think, oh, that's a good thing to earn is a fish.

Or maybe they'll say, if you do all of your jobs and get them done, maybe we'll go for a bike ride at the end of the day.

So you might want to make a chore chart, but today let's draw our chores that we think that we are going to be telling people about.

I'm going to start out by putting a tree next to my house.

Is this berry?

Oh no, it's brown.

So I'm using my regular brown because I know that when I paint over it, it will not move those.

And I'm going to putting like little branches.

You'll see why I like this.

I put the twiggy branches and then I make the roots go into the ground, next to my house.

And notice I'm using the side of my pencil.

I'm going like this.

And it makes it look like the tree trunk has like the woody part.

Now I'll set that aside and get out one of my colored pencils that is a watercolor pencil.

And I'll use this one.

Now I'm going to draw the green around here.

And you'll see what happens.

I'm not really sure what the green will look like when I paint it with the pink background, but we'll see.

And I'll put that kind of green and maybe this kind of green, because if you've ever been under a leafy tree, hardly any of the leaves are the same color.

So I'll see what happens now.

Now you know about the water color pencils.

Once you put the water on there, it starts to blend the colors in.

And you don't see so much of where I scribbled around in a circle.

It kind of blends it in.

And if the paper is wet, I can go back over it with the colored pencil and smear it around.

Oh yeah, that's making more circular leaves and around here.

Now I told you that I have to water my garden.

So I think that's what I'm going to use my regular colored pencils for.

I'm going to make some of my garden and you'll see me watering it.

I think, oh, you know what I really also wanted to do?

I put the white pencil in there so I can make a fence at the top.

But right here, I think I'll put all of my garden.

It's right next to my house.

In my neighborhood, they don't really like you to have your vegetables and fruit growing in the front.

They ask that you do it in the backyard instead.

But sometimes I have like pumpkins growing out there and you know, it almost time to get rid of your pumpkins.

But I like to have mine out there all the time because it makes my house look colorful.

And I like that.

So I'm going to draw a big orange pumpkin there and a small orange pumpkin there.

And I'll do a bright orange pumpkin over here.

That's one of my chores.

Are you were drawing your chores?

I think I should put my laundry out.

I don't have a clothesline.

What I use are my umbrellas.

I hang out my clothes that I don't like to put in the dryer.

And I put them hanging on my umbrellas that are in the garden.

But I'll just put a few clothes on my clothesline cause that is one of my chores.

I better put some vines or something on my pumpkin, so they don't look like they're floating in the ground.

There we go.

Put those and put some vines on.

How's yours coming along?

Do you have some of your chores on there?

I'll show you what I'm going to do about my garden and fence.

Cause I think that she put her house below here and the big house is up here.

So I'm going to draw a straight line across the roof.

I don't know how well you can see this, I maybe have to get out my pastels.

Because on colored paper, it doesn't always show up the way you want it to.

So I will bring my oil pastels down and they will show up better.

Cause they are very oily and waxy and I bet your crayons are oily and waxy too.

So I can draw my fence just like she did.

And she put a garden gate to go up there.

So I'm going to make all of the slats of the fence.

You can keep adding to this boys and girls, cause this is a long project.

And I think on my fence, I have a lot of vines growing because I have morning glory and they go everywhere.

But the thing about them, they have beautiful purple flowers.

So I think I'll put that on there.

I want to tell you about tomorrow.

Tomorrow, we're going to be doing wash day.

Now wash day, I am bringing a wash board.

I wonder if you've ever seen one of those.

You probably have a washing machine or you go to the laundromat.

But Clementine didn't have those kinds of things and she had to use a washboard and scrub a dub dub.

Here's the beginning of my memory project.

So tomorrow boys and girls bring white or pink paper, scissors, glue stick, oil pastels, water, I'm bringing my watercolor pencils again.

I'm bringing a brush and some water so I can blend it.

Will you make yourself a chore chart?

Is your memory project coming along?

Well, this has been another great day and we can say happy birthday, Clementine Hunter.

And I hope she had a great birthday wherever her spirit is living.

Boys and girls, thank you for joining me today and doing this memory house.

And I'm going to fill in this later and get more of my chores in there and remember to do your rhyming.

Chore, bore, they both say or.

We'll have a great day doing the wash day tomorrow.

Join me and I'll see you then.

Boys and girls have a great rest of your day.

Toodaloo (cheery music)