Part 2: Making Butterflies
Grade level: 1
Objectives:
- To introduce printmaking
- To mix colors
- To make a symmetrical butterfly painting
Materials:
- Red, blue, yellow finger paint
- thick glossy paper
Procedure: Have students fold paper in half, then scoop a little of each color into the center of the paper. Have student fold the paper and press. Open the paper and there's a butterfly!
Lesson: Maps
Grade level: Pre-K, 1, and Special Education (lesson adjusted for each level)
Objectives:
- To make a map by using the three types of lines (straight, curved and angle)
- To compare different methods for making lines, both natural and measured
Materials:
- ruler
- straws
- eye dropper
- food coloring (or ink)
- paper
Procedure:
- Explain how a river is a natural/organic line
- Make lines by blowing drops of ink into a trail
- First graders also made mountains with zigzag lines and roads with straight dashed lines.
- Create boundary lines of states or counties with a ruler (or just frame the irregular lines of the map with straight long lines)
Lesson: Painting with primary/secondary colors
Grade level: Pre-K to 1
Objectives:
- To paint baked clay pieces
- To learn/review primary and/or secondary color mixing (depending on grade level)
Materials:
- Q-tips and toothpicks
- acrylic paint: red, yellow, blue, paper
Procedure:
- Explain color mixing
- Have students paint their baked clay pieces with Q-tips making their own secondary colors by mixing two primary colors together
Lesson: oil pastels
Grade: 5
Objectives:
- To explain right brain/left brain functions
- To experiment with layering and blending oil pastels
- To make free drawings of pure color and large free marks
- To experience layering and modeling color like one would in a painting
Materials:
Procedure: After explaining right brain and left brain functions, tell students that art involves both. (Josefa explained how last class was left brained, full of measuring). Let students experiment with layering and blending oil pastels; a Right Brain exercise.
Lesson: Group collaboration: Thank You Gift
Hills Project Gift - 12/3/99
Grade level: All
Objectives:
- To create a collaborative piece to be presented as a gift to the Hills Project patrons
- To review some basic ideas (depending on grade level: lines, color, organic/ geometric shapes etc.)
Materials:
- The base consisted of 6 1-foot square gator-boards (with Josefa's silk screen prints on them)
- water-based ink
- rollers
- pens or oilsticks
Procedure: Every student contributes to the project with exactly one line, one shape, one handprint, and one signature. Josefa later framed each foam board with balsa wood, glue, and pins.
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