Lesson # 7 - Texture Rubbings

Objective

The student will draw animals and fill in simple shapes with texture rubbings.

Focus Element - texture

Focus Principles - rhythm, pattern

Standards

(AP) Artistic Perception- Identify the elements of visual art.(1.1)

(CE) Creative Expression- Create original works of art.(2.1)

(AV) Aesthetic Valuing- Analyze one's own and others' artwork.(4.1)

Open Court Themes

Pictures Tell StoriesFriendship

Stick To ItSchool

Shadows

Concept

Artists represent textures with lines, shape, and color.

Resources

ADVENTURES IN ART: pp. 74 & 75

ART CONNECTIONS: pp. 88 & 89, pp 110 & 111

ART EXPRESS: pp. 44 & 45, pp. 110 & 111

PORTFOLIOS: pp. 30-35

Art example: Chickens, Sisson Blanchard

Vocabulary words

texturestripes

patternshape

spotsenvironment

Materials

  • 9” x 12” newsprint
  • crayons, markers
  • 12”x18” white paper
  • assorted pictures of animals with patterning- zebras, tigers, giraffes, bees, ladybugs, fish, etc.
  • assorted textures for students to feel- sandpaper, fake fur, paper doilies,
  • aluminum screening, etc.

Kindergarten, lesson #7

DIRECTED LESSON

Get Set

Show examples of textured objects. Let students feel them. Show students how to collect texture rubbings. Allow them to make rubbings of environmental objects, supplemented with whatever textures which you or the classroom teacher have collected, on newsprint.

Focus

Share rubbings the children have collected. What kinds of patterns do they see? Can they think of animals that have patterns? Show Chickens and discuss the different patterns in the painting.Discuss the difference between spots and stripes. Share photographs of a few animals with patterns.

Develop

  1. Using a marker, students draw an animal on 12” x 18” white paper. THE ANIMAL MUST FILL THE PAGE. The students fill in their animal with texture rubbings to form patterns.
  2. They also fill in the background with texture rubbings, making an environment for their animal.

Evaluation

Looking at the students’ work ask what these animals would feel like if we could touch them. Name some kinds of textures.

Summary

We can use patterns to show visual texture.

Journal writing prompt

Draw your animal in your journal. Tell us a story about your animal and where it lives.

Extensions

  • READING - Read Look! Look! Look! or Just Look by Tana Hoban. Can you guess what the objects are by seeing their textures?
  • SCIENCE - Learn that animals have patterns for camouflage.
  • VA - Learn some names of different kinds of textures.
  • VA - Play “Feelie box”. (This game is from the Kinder level FOSS Fabric kit.) Cut hand-sized holes in opposite ends of a shoe box. Put about five pairs of fabric squares of very different textures in the box and close the lid. Ask students, one at a time, to insert their hands and find the matching pairs by using only their sense of touch

Assessment

(AP) I can find patterns.

(CE) I can make patterns.

(AV) I can talk about my own artwork.