Art Lesson Plans
Week of September 23-27, 2013
Primary- K-1
Jim Dine Hearts- Warm and Cool Color Families
Students will learn about pop artist Jim Dine and then about warm and cool color
families. They will then create colorful Dine inspired hearts using warm and cool colors.
Students will use a heart to trace around and practice their tracing skills. They will trace
around the heart in black crayon and then color the inside with water soluble wax pastels in
either warm OR cool color tones. They will then color around the heart in the opposite color
family and use water to bend their colors together and give the piece a painted look.
25.A.1d Visual Arts: Identify and use the elements of shape and color.
Upper Primary- 2-3
Native American Art –Parfleche Bags
Students will learn about native American plains indian art called
parfleche. We will look at symmetry and geometric design and pattern
used by the plains tribes.
Students will use construction paper to create a parfleche bag and decorate it with
symmetrical geometric designs using construction paper crayons. We will then add raffia for
fringe and buttons for flair!
25.A.1d Visual Arts: Identify and use the elements of line, shape, color and the principles of
repetition and pattern.
27.A.1b Identify how the arts contribute to communication, celebrations, occupations and
recreation.
27.B.2 Identify and describe how the arts communicate the similarities and differences
among various people, places and times.
Intermediate- 4-5
Salvador Dali- Elephants-Surrealism
Students will learn about the art of Salvador Dali and what surrealism is.
Students will create a surrealist picture based on Salvador Dali’s
“Elephants” by drawing, painting and cutting out an elephant with extralong legs and gluing it to a surrealist background that they have painted
such as the barren landscapes found in Dali’s work. Students will then
create a howdah or elephant carriage and use a variety of materials to
decorate their pictures.
25.A.2d Visual Arts: Identify and describe the elements of 2- dimensional space, value, form,
the principles of rhythm, unity, balance, proportion, and composition.
25.A.3d Visual Arts: contrast, emphasis and movement
26.B.2d Visual Arts: Demonstrate knowledge and skills to create works of visual art using
problem solving designing and sketching.
27.B.2 Identify and describe how the arts communicate the similarities and differences
among various people, places and times.
Middle Level- 6,7,8
Relief Sculptures- Clay Tiles
Middle level students will learn about high relief sculptures, bas-relief
sculptures and intaglio relief sculptures. They will then create a clay tile
using one of the above mentioned relief choices and a variety of clay tools.
26.B.3d Visual Arts: Demonstrate knowledge and skills to create 2- and 3-dimensional
works of art that are realistic, abstract, functional and decorative.
26.A.3e Visual Arts: Describe how the choices of tools/technologies and processes are
used to create specific effects in the arts.