by Dennas Davis | Jan 5, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students become art mad scientists, and do 3 painting experiments to learn that shadows are made with opposite colors instead of grays. This also teaches them how artists must try different things, and that artwork can be easily changed. A game of stickman is...
by Dennas Davis | Dec 11, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW The students get to create a winter nature painting. Snow shows the colors of shadows, and white has many different shades of colors. To learn these insights, we begin by painting snow. building up a painting using 3 kinds of whites, shadows, and big tree...
by Dennas Davis | Dec 5, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will make multiple art prints using a simple technique to engrave a design into styrofoam. They will also create a frame for the print and paint it with acrylics. The lesson will teach how printing creates duplicates and they are a mirror image....
by Dennas Davis | Nov 20, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW We use the idea of seeing double to have fun, and reinforce several artistic insights. Students learn symmetry with a collage using double-cutting and a mono print fold-over. There’s a fun “lines and tigers” (get it?) game that morphs into a shadow lesson...
by Dennas Davis | Nov 13, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students have fun learning how to make different cartoon expressions and drawing several cartoon faces. Then they get to create a “Can-Toon”. Using a used and cleaned regular-sized food can, they cover it with bright colored backgrounds first. Then face parts...
by Dennas Davis | Nov 6, 2024 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will create an interactive color oil pastel work that changes from day to night when you change your viewing angle. They’ll use their memory to draw their own home and yard, so it’s a personal piece. This also takes away any worries about content, so...
