Buck Wild
Students will look at William R. Leigh’s painting Greased Lightning and imagine stories that explain what might have startled the horse, then they will have the chance to act out their imagined stories.
Students will look at William R. Leigh’s painting Greased Lightning and imagine stories that explain what might have startled the horse, then they will have the chance to act out their imagined stories.
In this lesson students will work with tangram shapes and learn to spot the shapes in Elizabeth Hopkins’s Album Quilt. After reading the book Eight Hands Round by Ann Whitford, children will have the opportunity to create their own quilt squares with tangram shapes.
Students will enjoy moving like the birds in Blumenschein’s painting Mountain Lake (Eagle Nest). They will then use their powers of observation to learn what water looks like when it’s still versus when it’s moving and apply what they learn when examining the lake in the painting.
Students will explore the shape of a circle with bubbles, Terry Winters’s painting Rhyme, and a project of their own. They will identify the different colors in Rhyme, decorate circles with similar colors, and arrange smaller circles on a larger circle template, mimicking elements of Winters’s painting.
Each student will create a flower patterned quilt square in response to the floral patterns on the Pratt Family Album Quilt.
This lesson encourages students to focus on details and use their observations to answer hypothetical questions. They will do this by grouping objects in Sprick’s painting Release Your Plans into similar categories.
Children will examine the painting The Road to Santa Fe to see how many different animals, plants, people, colors, etc. they can find. They will then use their bodies to interact with the painting on a kinesthetic level. The lesson culminates with the children “corresponding” with the donkeys in the painting—learning more about where the donkeys live and sharing information about their own backyards, neighbors, homes, and families.
In this lesson children will investigate elements of Rodeo-Pickup Man and participate in activities related to the painting. They will explore sound, color, and their imaginations; and will make their own paintings to share with the class.
Students will explore shapes and angles through body movement and hands-on manipulations within the context of the Denver Art Museum’s Frederic C. Hamilton Building.
Students will examine Bierstadt’s painting Wind River Country, identify what they see, and imagine what’s missing. They will then touch objects similar to those in the painting to connect visual and tactile experiences. An auditory and movement exercise follows, with students making sounds of objects in the painting and moving around like the objects while making their sounds.
After observing Donald Coen’s painting Yellow Rain Jacket, students will draw in missing parts of the horse on a printed copy of the painting. Students will also add parts of other animals to the original image to create imaginative animal hybrids.
Students will explore Wes Wilson’s poster through movement and sound. They will use movement, sounds, and words to communicate what they see and how the poster makes them feel.