Pudding Pictures
Students will use colored vanilla pudding to get a hands-on understanding of how Moyo Ogundipe layers and etches paint.
Students will use colored vanilla pudding to get a hands-on understanding of how Moyo Ogundipe layers and etches paint.
Children will use their bodies and faces to express feelings and states of mind in order to prepare them to look at and talk about how Roxanne Swentzell’s sculpture The Things I Have To Do To Maintain Myself shows emotion and focus. They will then talk about things they do to take care of themselves and ”mend” two pieces of fabric by sewing them together with yarn.
Students will explore the mysterious atmosphere and foggy shapes found in Monet’s painting Waterloo Bridge. They will sing “London Bridge is Falling Down” as a class and use shape stamps to create a painting of a bridge.
Students will explore Three Young Girls to enhance their powers of observation and inspire an exploration of the number three.
Students will pretend they are insects or frogs, jumping from lily pad to lily pad as they explore the world in Monet’s painting.
After exploring different images and characters in the parades depicted in The Triumphs, children will make masks and have a parade of their own!
Students will explore what it might have felt like for the people in The Radcliffe Family to pose for their sittings. They will then have fun posing stuffed animals and dolls for their own portrait compositions.
After singing fun songs about fish, students will explore William Merritt Chase’s painting Still Life with Fish, noting the shiny quality of the scales and the pot. They will also listen to the story The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister and make a fish artwork using collaged metallic paper.
In this lesson, students will learn that classroom rules and values are set in place to create a calm and peaceful environment. After exploring how the hand gestures in the Eleven-Headed Bodhisattva communicate a message, they will design their own hand gestures that remind students of the classroom rules.
Close observation helps students see tiny details in the Grip Enhancers (Menuki) with Rats. They will use these details to engage in different visual arts and movement activities. A video about mochi (one of the objects on the grip enhancers) and activities in Japan around making mochi rounds out the lesson.
This lesson connects to Jeffrey Gibson's Freedom with the idea that we make choices about what we carry and why. Young learners will explore their own identity and learn about others through a guessing game, sorting game, and close observation of art.
Young learners will explore the layers of geometric shapes in Jeffrey Gibson's Freedom, and explore a variety of types of materials to make a multi-layered art work of their own.