Lesson At A Glance

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10 Min – Draw flowers

10 Min – Music game

5 Min – Glue vase cutouts into place on large kraft paper.

20 Min –   Draw & color flowers pastels.

10 Min – Teachers cut most of flowers out.

10 Min – Fill the vase.

5 Min – Finish with pastels if desired.

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LESSONPLAN

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Kneel down so that you are on their level. Bending over emphasizes the differences in your height, while kneeling makes them feel more important. Have tape and marker ready so you can stick some tape on the table by each student and write their name on it as they sit down.

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.

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Have the reference pages set up on cheasels or other stands, and set them out for the kids to continue with warmup. Encourage using pencils to sketch, but markers are ok too. This should be more about having fun and enjoying the subject than getting anything a certain way.

Make note about how detailed the edges of flowers seem to be, but that they can fit into circle shapes. The Big Shape of a flower is usually a circle, or a cup-like shape as in the tulips.

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Read the teacher talk, and encourage your students to change their lines at least once to make the drawing more accurate. Help them choose colors that will blend together well, which usually means alike, or analogous colors. Kids tend to not like grays and browns, which are created when a cool color and a warm color mix together.

These will be used later in the lesson, so double-check that their name is ON THE BACK of the vase, not in a corner, since we’ll be cutting these out.

If you have a helper, they should begin cutting the vases as soon as the students have begun finishing them.

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Don’t display the image yet, but begin with the introduction and first stage:

After they’ve made the basic shapes, have your students trade out the 3 markers for 3 new markers that are also warm or hot colors. Then go ahead and display the first slide with the fish.

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Make sure everyone gets a good coating of glue on the back of their vase cutouts, and that the edges are glued well. Explain how the vase will hold a bunch of flowers we’ll be making next. Place the vase so that it is completely in the bottom half but not touching the bottom edge of the kraft paper.

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First, have your students use their imagination to visualize the flowers in their vase art.

After they’ve imagined the size of the flowers, have students draw and color flowers like crazy. They can draw realistic flowers like in the picture references, or make up their own imagination flowers. Let them express themselves however they want, but if someone is stuck, suggest a specific flower in front of them, or suggest a favorite solid color flower, or even a striped, or polka dot flower! Have a ton of fun!

Cut their flowers out while you interact with the students, and set them in a neat pile to use later. Be careful not to get flowers mixed up with other student’s work.

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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.

The video (above), “drawing with scissors”, shows you how to turn the paper as you cut, for faster and easier cutting. Sometimes you’ll need to cut circles around flowers that have too many petals to cut out, and that actually works fine. Simple cuts look good.

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Have students decide where their flowers go by placing them before gluing. Then glue the backs, getting the edges covered well, and place them again on the artwork. Press down all around to secure, and then get the next flower and continue.

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After everything else is done, students can add more details in pastels, and even add black lines using the black oil pastel to complete the work, if they want to.

Everyone should help putting pastels away and cleaning up all the papers.

Take photos of artwork!

Make sure you see the kids connect with parents and tell them about the class if you can!

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Get enough butcher paper ready to cover a table.

Print all of your PDFs from the lesson plan and cut the flower reference photos apart.

Week 9: Artists’ Choice Day

Students have a day full of fun and choosing their own subject matter. This encourages artists, who often say they don’t get to do what they want to. There are also 2 stations for learning-art activities.

Week 10: Jungle Rug

Artists enjoy drawing a still life in pencil, and then using watercolors to paint it. There is some review of shadows and highlights during the artwork time. After a break, the kids cut leaf shapes out of colored papers to make a jungle collage, and then create oil pastel art of plants from life or photo references.

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