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.

Art Gallery Description for Snowman in Perspective

Medium: Paint

We started our art lesson with a discussion about PERSPECTIVE in art.  One student was able to give a really good definition of the topic.  She said “it is looking at a subject from a different angle or direction.”

Using the subject of a snowman, most students (even adults) want to draw the three circles of their snowman and get on with it.  We talked about taking a close up look at a snowman.  We asked, what do you see if your snowman in directly in front of you?  We may not see the bottom part of the snowman but his face would appear very large. How big would his nose be? Would you see his entire body or just part of it?

After much discussion on the topic, the students were instructed to draw the body shape, from the mid-part of the middle circle to the head.  Step-by-step they were shown how to draw the hat, scarf, nose, eyes and buttons.  Then they were given tempura paint and shown how to property use the paint brush and other tools to create their ‘close-up’ perspective of the snowman.

The children were quite impressed with their new found knowledge on perspective.  The artwork you see here is a result of this lesson!