Here is Day #3 of free lesson plans! This week, I'm on Spring Break so I am sharing some of my lessons I used for our recent Art Show, "The Art of Charlotte's Web."
These 3rd grade projects took a while because of all the color mixing, but it was well worth it! They really did an excellent job mixing, painting and collage-ing (is that a word?!) And I will always make up projects that give me an excuse to use OK Go's song "Three Primary Colors" - it is so catchy!!
I've been borrowing/stealing/adapting lessons for years because of the online generosity of art teachers around the world. So, I figure it is time to give back a little. Each day, I'll share a project that I have found to be a successful addition to my vault of lessons. I don't claim that any of these lessons are mine and mine alone, so if you recognize them, send me a message and I'll give credit where credit is due! Enjoy!
I have a beautifully simple watercolor project to share with you. I did this with 3rd grade, used watercolor paper and Prang watercolors (which are my favs). We had just finished a project with background, middleground and foreground, so they were very familiar with horizon lines. Using their paintbrush, they painted the top inch (or so) of their paper with a color, moved down another inch or so, chose another color and made a different shaped horizon line. They repeated this (new color/new horizon line) until they got to the bottom of the paper. The following week, we RIPPED up their beautiful paintings! They were a bit shocked at this announcement, to say the least!! As they ripped their paintings into strips and glued the pieces to a colored piece of construction paper, they were careful to overlap each strip a little bit so show the white paper edge. Each one is so unique - just like my students!
