Lesson Plans
Alberto Giacometti-Inspired
Wire Sculptures
Geared for middle school students, this is a 3-dimensional project that looks at line, shape, movement, emotion, and the human form. Students will learn to bend and manipulate sculpture wire to develop 3-D sculptures.
Tin Foil Figures
An exploration of 3-dimensional form, light and shadow through an elementary lens! 3rd and 4th graders are engaged by collaborating with their peers to develop gesture drawings, manipulating foil into human figures, playing with flashlights to cast shadows, and constructing basic artist statements.
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Safari Binoculars
A mixed media collage project that allows 1st and 2nd graders the opportunity to explore drawing jungle animals like Henri Rousseau, refine outlining skills, cutting, gluing, and simple printmaking!
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By creating “yolk” slime with limited ingredients, learners will problem-solve by carefully measuring shampoo, cornstarch and water, and analyzing the differences in slime ingredient ratios, interact and explore new textures, benefit from social interactions, and gain experience in making artistic decisions by decorating their Humpty Dumpty egg before building a protective barrier to prevent it from cracking open.
Students will be able to safely cut and manipulate a piece of paper, with guidance, to create a form that resembles a creature/animal and expresses an emotion. They will further explore their feelings by identifying characteristics of an emotion with their peers through group discussion and application of color to indicate a particular emotion.
By considering why something or someone can be collectively considered as pretty/good/successful or ugly/bad/unsuccessful by a group, students will review a series of artworks from abstract, minimalism pieces to surrealist to realism. We’ll discuss social norms and standards of beauty to better understand the current societal stance on what’s “pretty” and what’s “ugly”.
Artistic autonomy.
Collaboration.
Egg-secution.