Teachers: Ben Montgomery, Cassie Engberecht, Sarah Smith
Name of Lesson: Eric Carle
Grade level: pre-k
THEME:
- How colorsand textures relate to feelings and/or stories by using ideas from Eric Carle
GOALS:
- To gain understanding of how colors mix to create other colors
- To gain appreciation for Eric Carle’s style and distinguish his work among others
- To demonstrate ability to describe their artwork while using topics of color, texture, and feeling
- To demonstrate the ability to create a story from their artwork
- To develop skill in fine motor skills & techniques to create their texture works
CONCEPTS:
- TSWBT understand that red, yellow, and blue can create green, orange, and purple
- (color, primary color, secondary color)
- TSWBT understand the connection between colors and emotion
- TSWBT understand that behind every piece of art the artist had a story or feeling behind it
- TSWBT understand how Eric Carle created his artwork
- TSWBT understand how scissors work and how to operate them correctly
ADAPTATIONS DIVERSE LEARNERS:
- Having an outline of animals premade if they aren’t able to create a drawing on their own
- Having a “brain break” to 1) get up and exercise and get the silly’s out AND 2) snack break related to the project
- One on one attention if needed
KEY WORDS:
- Artist: a person who makes art for a living as a job
- Colors: what we see when light shines on an object
- Texture: what a surface OR thing feels like
- Basic (primary) color: red, yellow, blue
- Mixed (secondary) color: all the other colors except white (orange, green, purple, brown, black)
- Critique: a time when you explain or tell your story of your artwork
- Emotion: our feelings during an activity (happy, sad, glad, mad, angry, joyful, etc.)
- Tissue paper: really thin, colored paper that has high transparency (you can see through it!) it comes in presents
- Illustrate: to make pictures for a book
- Author: to write words for a book that makes a story
- Collage: many pieces pasted together
ART HISTORY:
- Eric Carle (artist) (read Brown Bear, Brown Bear)
- Who is he?
- Look at his illustrations from multiple books
- Show video “How Eric Carle makes his illustrations”
- Compare his work with other artists’ work (assessment)
Aesthetics/Criticism
Subject Matter
- Why did you choose your animal? What’s his name?
- What’s its story? (what’s happening in the picture)
- How are they feeling today? (sad, happy etc.)
- How does your animal talk? How might it sound? (tell a partner)
- How is Eric Carle’s artwork different from this other example?
Elements/Principles
- What would the texture of your animal be in real life? (hard/soft, smooth/rough, etc.) is it normal or is it a new different type of animal?
- What colors did you use? Why?
- How many mixed colors can we name? Go!
- What kind of shapes does Eric Carle use? What do you use?
- How does your animal move or get place to place?
Materials:
- Large (butcher) paper
- Many newspapers
- Acrylic paint
- Regular print paper
- Glue (paint brushes? What kind works best?)
- Pencils
- Scissors
- Projector (ipad)
- Snacks? Napkins/cups
Students need: clothes that can be painted in
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE:
8:15 Arrival and set up
8:45 Greet children and parents/ name tags
9:00 Color mixing on floor
9:15 clean up – washing hands
hand out snacks
9:30 ERIC CARLE history lesson
read book
9:35 history
9:40 compare artists (assessment)
9:45 show our art examples, explain what will happen
9:50 brain break (run outside if nice, or dance to song inside if not)
set up art project
10:00 begin art project
-pick an animal outline or choose to draw their own
-glue their tissue paper to picture
10:30 draw it in, clean up a little
10:35 talk about our pictures with a partner (assessment) use questions from above
10:40 make a circle, explain our song
10:45 practice our song
10:55 perform to parent who are here