Art Lesson Plan Form

Art-a-Baloo ART LESSON PLAN is extremely important to the Art-a-Baloo program:

• It gives the PTO and school administrators an account of what the program is doing
• That same accounting helps back and re-enforce budgets requests, helps support budget increase inquires too!
• It facilitate in supply and inventory issues
• It helps re-create the 'art experience' for other students, in other classes, for years to come.
• and lastly, it gives our visitors an idea of what the children are learning with the program and why it is so beneficial.    

The Art Lesson Plan  is located in the PTO office.  Please turn it in by emailing it to Artabaloo@gmail.com, or leave it in the Art-a-Baloo Folder in the PTO office and notifying the Art Docent Leaders it's there.  Also please be sure to notify Art Docents Leaders if you have NOT taken pictures of the projects, and email pictures if you have.

ART LESSON PLAN

(This portion of the Lesson Plan hangs in the wall as an Art Gallery Description)

Title of Lesson:  This will be the “Blog Title”

Docent:

Grade:

Teacher:

Date:

Medium:  Main Product used...colored pencils, oil pastels, water color...etc.

Reason for Lesson:  A brief description of principle of art (or element of art ( is being taught...what is the goal.  example:  Lesson was designed to create an understanding of   line and space, using the artwork from the Master Matisse.

Lessons should include one of the Elements of Art: Color, Line, Shape, Form, Texture and Space, especially for the primary-age students.  For the intermediate-age students, lessons may be more advanced studying the Principles of Art: Movement, Unity, Harmony, Variety, Balance, Contract, Proportion, Pattern and Rhythm.

(This portion of the Lesson Plan is for program accountability)

Label:  Color, Line, Shape, Form, Texture and Space or Movement, Unity, Harmony, Variety, Balance, Contract, Proportion, Pattern and Rhythm

Prep Time:  What about time does to take to be project-ready for the classroom

Preparation prior to lesson:  What do you do to prepare for the lesson?

Class Time:  What is the time it took to teach the project, start to finish.  If it was a multi-day project, please let us know.

Materials:  List every item used for the lesson...this is important for assignment reproduction and really important for supply closet and program budgeting.

Instructions to Lead Lesson:  Step by step instructions, or a brief summary.  If you used

PC’s Powerpoint or Mac’s Keynote presentations and you wish to share, they may be added to the blog...however, older versions prior to 2010 do not transfer.

Credit:  Was it an Art Attack lesson from our Library, or an internet, or some other...let’s give credit to those who deserve it.

Winter Birch Trees

Medium: Watercolor

Reason for Lesson: The students will learn how to use a paint brush properly and the forgiving aspects of watercolor.

Prep Time: 10 minutes to gather supplies.

Material: Watercolor Paper, watercolors, brushes in various sizes, sponges, white construction paper, scratch paper (for practice), scissors, black permanent marker (shapes) and glue stick.

Instructions to Lead Lesson:  
Instruct the students on the proper way to use a paint brush.  Instruct them on the forgiving nature of watercolor. 

Using a pencil, draw a very light horizontal line...straight or curved they are creating a horizon that will appear behind their trees.   Dampen paper with sponge, add sunset with watercolors using cool or warm colors above the horizon line. Blend the colors with a sponge.  Add a bit more color making 'clouds of color.  Practice painting fence on scratch paper.  Paint fence using watercolor...one stroke lines.  Cut birch tree truncks from white paper. Add dots and dashes with sharpie marker.  Outline fence with sharpie.  Mix a lot of water with black watercolor to create a light silver color.  Paint fence shadows...one line strokes...practice on scratch paper.  Glue birch trees on paper.  Add shadows to bottom of trees.  

What's your Name, Exercise in Line

Medium: Black Pens and Watercolor Markers

Reason for the Lesson: This is a line drawing lesson with a play on each students name. This lesson teaches how to make block letters and to think a bit outside the box.

Prep Time:  10 minutes to gather supplies and materials

Materials: Black Sharpies, Watercolor Markers (for the brilliant pop of color), white construction paper 24 x 18.

Instructions to Lead Lesson: 

Start with the first letter of your name and place it on the bottom of the page in a block letter format. This letter becomes the “foundation” of the pile.  Then, begin adding the other letters, not necessarily in spelling order, around, behind, in front and on top of the first letter. To help with flow, tell the children to turn their papers around.

Show the students how to add a letter behind another and in front of another. 

After the letters are piled high (repeating letters is encouraged!), fill in the spaces with patterns. It helps to have some sample patterns on the board to kick-start creativity.

Once the patterns (lines) are filled in, bring out the markers and let the children color in the letters. No color rules here: whatever color they chose is fantastic

After I show the students a sample, there is always one student who points out that their name is too short. I mean, what can you do with “Sam” or “Amy”? Lots, I say. It doesn’t matter how many letters the students use (first name, last name, both), layering and toppling the letters in a random, creative way is what its all about.  I suggest using all capital letters, as their are less round shapes, but that can be decided by the students.