Art Lesson Summary for First Grade Students

Base Line Self Portraits
Objective:
The student will draw a self portrait, date it and put it away to use as a comparison for improvement at the end of the year.

Cutting Lines / Creating a Collage
Objective:
The student will cut out a variety of lines and glue them into an interesting composition for a collage.

Decorating a Letter
Objective:
The student will draw off the first letter of their last name and decorate the letter with design.

Creating a Border for Our Letter
Objective:
The student will design a border for their letter drawing.

Fall Leaves / Working with Warm Colors in Crayon
Objective:
The student will learn about warm colors and celebrate the fall season by creating a work of fall leaves.

Watercoloring Our Fall Leaf Background
Objective:
The student will complete their fall leaf drawing by filling the background with cool water colors.

Indian Studies / Weaving Mats
Objective:
The student will weave paper to create a mat.

Painting an American Indian Symbol on Our Mats
Objective:
The student will complete their mat by painting an American Indian symbol in the center.

Symmetry / Spin, Slide, and Radial
Objective:
The student will work with shapes to create spin, slide, and radial symmetry.

Looking at Pablo Picasso / Making Our Own Picasso Portrait
Objective:
The student will become familiar with a work by Pablo Picasso and using geometric shapes will create their own Picasso portrait.

Completing Our Picasso Portrait
Objective:
The student will complete their Picasso portrait by gluing down their shapes and filling their background with design.

Geometric Shapes and Pattern / A Collage
Objective:
The students will cut several geometric shapes and fill each shape with colorful patterns.

Seeing Our Collage in a Different Way
Objective:
The student will make a rubbing of the collage they made last lesson in order that they may see their composition in a new way.

Bean Ornaments
Objective:
The student will use their imagination to create free-form ornaments using white glue and beans.

Print Making / Making a Relief Plate
Objective:
The student will create a relief plate to use as a stamp for printing cards.

Printing Cards with Our Stamp
Objective:
The students will print cards using the stamp they made last lesson.

Working with Landscapes / More on Printmaking
Objective:
The student will be able to recognize a landscape painting and the three parts, foreground, middle ground and background. The student will compose a landscape on a styrofoam plate by incising lines into the surface.

Printing Our Landscapes
Objective:
The student will ink and print the plate of their landscape image.

Midterm Portrait / Looking at Michelangelo
Objective:
The student will be familiar with the work “Portrait of Andrea Quaratesi”, by Michelangelo. The student will create their own portrait in a similar pose using neutral color crayons.

Working with Texture / Making a Heart Collage
Objective:
The student will know what the art element texture is and will make rubbings of a variety of textures. The student will use their rubbings to create a collage of textured hearts.

Crayon Drawing / Giant Hearts with Color and Design
Objective:
The student will begin working on a drawing of a giant heart in an effort to practice design and color application.

Completing Our Giant Heart Drawings
Objective:
The student will complete the giant heart drawings they began in the last lesson by filling in the background with more design and pattern.

Watercolor Painting / Working with Value
Objective:
The student will learn about the art element value and use watercolor to create a range of values on a background.

Making a Skyline Silhouette for Our Value Painting
Objective:
The students will know what a silhouette is and cut out a city skyline silhouette to glue onto their value painting.

Crayon Etching / Preparing Our Surface / Planning Our Flower Design
Objective:
The student will prepare a surface on which they can make a crayon etching. The student will design a plan for their crayon etching using flowers as their subject.

Completing Our Etching
Objective:
The student will complete a crayon etching using flowers as their subject.

Putting Our Hands In Front of Our Face / Working with Space
Objective:
The student will learn how to create foreshortening and space by drawing their hands in front of their face.

Expressions on My face / Learning to Observe
Objective:
The student will spend time looking at their own expressions and observing the changes in their facial features. The students will draw of their observations on white paper.

Looking at Munch’s “The Scream” / Painting the Background of Our Final Self Portrait
Objective:
The student will look at Edward Munch’s “The Scream” and examine it in detail. The student will copy the work on white paper with crayons. The student will paint a background for our final expressive portrait.

Drawing Our Expressions with Oil Pastels
Objective:
The student will complete their final self portrait with oil pastels and create an expression on their face.