Lesson At A Glance

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5 Min – Color Dance with 3 bright oil pastels & colored paper

10 Min – Provide face prints & magazine pages.

5 Min – Show students how to glue a collage.

25 Min – Make Art Work!

10 Min – Early finishers help clean up or make a 2nd collage.

5 Min – Everyone helps

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LESSONPLAN

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Ask them to work with one piece of paper for a while. If someone uses the phrase, “free draw”, explain that artists’ choice is something only artists can do, while free-draw is something anyone can do. You want to use the phrase to elevate the students’ expectations of their work.

Everyone should take their time with the work and make a finished piece of art. Limiting the paper can also help kids focus on the work. If someone finishes in super-fast time, ask them what more they can do to the existing paper. Ask again several times – unless they appear overly frustrated; then you can allow them to move on to a new work.

Remember to set up your photo booth so that there is good light from above on one side, and you can clearly see the student’s face.

Take a moment to introduce the project.

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Students should choose 3 bright spring colors they like and a sheet of brightly colored 8.5″ x 11″ copy paper. Play some slow and flowing music while they work. Orinoco Flow, and Drifting, by Enya are both great for this.

After doing some colors, have students switch to their white pastel and go over all the colors to lighten and blend them.

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• Make paper smaller: Trim away large parts you don’t need first
• Use both hands: Rotate the paper with one hand, cut with the other

Have students choose an image that is not very useable, and practice cutting a shape out. Go around and help as needed.

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Review the demo video and demonstrate to your students, or you can simply display the video on a larger screen for them to watch.

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Hand out the printed faces from the photo shoot you did last week or at the beginning of class, and have students pick 3 images to begin with.

After students choose a paper, then they can choose a paper for their background. You should provide several colors if possible, but it will always look great on white. Early choosers may begin cutting their images out.

Rough cut all the images out BEFORE cutting the actual image outline.

Make sure that everyone has a save it pile, and a toss it pile. Keep them neat and separated!

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Draw a rectangle for the wet brush to be placed in – its special spot. It should be in a corner, close to where the glue bowl will be. If you have a lot of lefties, you can place bowls in-between students to share, but it works best if everyone has their own bowl.

1. Use the large paper as a gluing mat.
2. If your mat gets too sticky, ask for a new mat.
3. Place a cut-out image face down onto a clean, non-sticky part of your gluing mat.
4. Brush a thin layer of glue all over the back, brushing from the middle, out to the edges.
5. Put the brush in its special spot.
6. Carefully place your cut-out image onto your artwork, and press all over to attach securely.

Medium sized flat synthetic nylon brushes work well with watered down glue. Pour out some white glue and add just a bit of water in it to keep it fluid, but not enough to make it runny. Mix well.

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Help with cutting, pasting, and keeping hands clean.

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• Wash hands
• Super-wash brushes if used
• Put art supplies away
• Wipe tables & toss trash
• Remove any smocks (last)
• Check for items on floors and tables

Pro Photo Tip: if shadows are too dark, set up a piece of poster board, or even a sheet of butcher paper, on the opposite side of the light, so that it reflects white back onto the shadow side of the face and body.

Collect catalogs and magazines. Family and home magazines work best. Go through and pull out any innapropriate pages, or cut the pages out that are good, and place them all into a paper bin.

Printer set up. You’ll need a way to take pictures and print them. Print all of your PDFs from the lesson plan and cut any references apart as needed.

Week 29: Stacked Up Art

Students will make an art sculpture by cutting and pasting to create a 3D stack of shapes and color. They’ll be using paper they’ve colored and drawing on themselves. They’ll also have time for a fun artist game today.

Week 30: Near and Far

To understand the basic idea of drawing from a viewpoint (perspective), artists need to learn how to look. Students are introduced to the ideas of viewpoints and then cover up one eye and use their table to see how the horizon edge is behind a toy figure instead of beneath it. The idea of near and far also shows students how drawing small makes things look like they are farther away. It’s a great lesson of artistic discovery, and most kids are very proud of the work they do.