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...
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...
