by Dennas Davis | Jan 29, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students learn about radial symmetry and how we see it all over. Then they’ll make spiral designs with markers and a radial design too. These are cut out and put together later to make a rolling moving artwork that animates! They also create a fun page of...
by Dennas Davis | Jan 22, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW We start out with looking at the symmetry of a human face from the front. Then we move into a fun project where students all make a hangable painted fish to turn the room into a giant aquarium. – – – Grades K – 2 Week of Jan 27 –...
by Dennas Davis | Jan 16, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students have fun mixing up a bunch of variations of greens. They learn that colors are not simple and basic, but that there are thousands of versions of just greens alone. A geometric abstract design is drawn, a mixing game is played, and then the colors are...
by Dennas Davis | Jan 8, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will learn (or review) symmetry and how it relates to balance. They’ll stand on one leg to experience balance, and then create two artworks; one with vertical symmetry and one that’s horizontal. First they’ll draw and color an animal face using a...
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...
