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Fairbanks North Star Borough School District

Artwork by Austin Cain

2019 – 2020

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District i 2019 – 2020 Art Kit Catalog

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Introduction About the Kits ............................................................................................................................................ iii

NEW Kits for 2019 – 2020! ....................................................................................................................... iv

Elementary Grade – Level Artists............................................................................................................... v

Alaska Native Artists ................................................................................................................................. vi

Art Kit Support Supply List ...................................................................................................................... vii

Art Kits Kindergarten ............................................................................................................................................... 8

First Grade ................................................................................................................................................ 32

Second Grade ............................................................................................................................................ 62

Third Grade ............................................................................................................................................... 90

Fourth Grade ........................................................................................................................................... 122

Fifth Grade .............................................................................................................................................. 156

Sixth Grade ............................................................................................................................................. 190

Special Education - Adaptive.................................................................................................................. 222

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About the Kits 1. ART ACTIVITY KITS: are based on the lessons the art specialists taught during their previous

years’ rounds. They are designed for specific grade levels.

2. ART APPRECIATION KITS: (denoted by ) are based on lessons about artists, themes, or

media. They are designed for a range of grade levels and have a variety of background

information and activities or lessons.

3. ART TRUNKS: a list of available art trunks is on the order sheets at the beginning of each

grade section. For more information, please contact the Art Center.

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NEW Kits for 2019 – 2020!

Kindergarten:

Children’s Day Koi Streamers

Toy Boxes in Perspective (revised)

Whale Migrations (revised)

First Grade:

Antler Art: Seasonal Symmetry

Arctic Terns: Chasing the Sun (revised)

Delicious Fruit

Sonya’s Shapes (3 lessons)

Second Grade:

Cut-Shape Pictures (revised)

Henri Rousseau: Alaskan Dino-Rainforest

Shape Stations (revised)

Third Grade:

Line and Shape Messages (revised)

Monet’s Underwater World

Watercolor Monotype (revised)

Fourth Grade:

Antlers: Observe like O’Keeffe

Kadninsky’s Secret World

Romare Bearden: Mood Collages

Fifth Grade:

African Textiles Designs (revised)

Henri Rousseau: An Alaskan Rainforest

New Ways of Using Color (revised)

Sixth Grade:

Alien Life in Abstract (revised)

Musical and Visual Rhythms

Ribbon Illusions (revised)

Adaptive:

Fields of Flowers

Hungry Hippos and Milton Bradley (revised)

Ladybug Colors

My Good Luck Bag (revised)

Don’t forget…

Check out the Primary and Intermediate Drawing Trunks with lessons and sets of drawing materials in

your school library!

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Elementary Grade – Level Artists Below is a list of the elementary grade-level artists. Biographies for each artist are included in the

curriculum document and on the back of the school reproductions. Try to become familiar with each

artist. Art kits are available to support you.

Grade Artist Known As Life Span Selection Criteria

K

Bill Berry Alaskan Illustrator,

Painter 1926-1979 Alaskan, Local Artist

Henry Moore British Sculptor 1898-1986 Families, 3D Art

Vincent Van Gogh Dutch Impressionist

Painter 1853-1890 Self-Portraits

1

Alexander S. Calder American Sculptor 1898-1976 Simple Shapes, Colors, 3D

Art

Piet Mondrian Dutch Painter 1872-1940 Simple Shapes, Colors

Anna Mary

Robertson Moses

Late-Blooming American

Painter 1860-1961 Family, Storytelling

2

Maria Martinez American Potter 1887-1980 Native American

Henri Matisse French Impressionist

Painter 1868-1954

Art History, Patterning,

Color, Expressive

Grant Wood American Regionalist

Painter 1891-1942

U.S. Geography,

Landscape

3

Claude Monet French Impressionist

Painter 1840-1926

Art History,

Impressionism, Painting

Pablo Ruiz Picasso Spanish Master of

Modern Art 1881-1973

Art History, Learning

about Self, Collage

Faith Ringgold African-American Artist 1930-Present Author-Artist, Careers,

Storytelling

4

Katsushika Hokusai Japanese Woodblock

Printer 1760-1849

Pacific Rim, Printmaking,

Graphic Art

Georgia O’Keeffe American Painter 1887-1986 Plants, Woman Artist,

Landscape

Melvin Olanna Alaska Native Artist 1941-1991

Alaska Studies,

Printmaker, Science,

Sculptor

5

Michelangelo

Buonarroti Italian Renaissance Artist 1475-1564

World Art History,

Renaissance, Sculpture,

Fresco Painting

Mary Cassatt American Impressionist

Painter 1844-1926

American History, Woman

Artist, Children, Family

Andy Warhol American Pop Artist ca. 1925-

1930 to 1987

Contemporary American

History, Graphic Artist,

Careers

6

Egyptian Art 3100-

1100BC World (Egyptian) History

Leonardo da Vinci Italian Renaissance Artist 1452-1519 Renaissance Artist

Frank Lloyd Wright American Architect 1867-1959 Architecture, Careers

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Alaska Native Artists

Grade Artist Known As Life Span Selection Criteria

K

Dixie Alexander

Athabascan Bead Workers

1958 – Present

Athabascan Regalia &

Alaska Women Artists Hannah Solomon 1908 – 2011

Delores Sloan 1938 – Present

1 Sonya Kelliher-

Combs

Mixed Media Painter &

Sculptor 1969 – Present

Inupiat, Athabascan, &

Woman Artist

2 Denise Wallace Jeweler & Sculptor 1957 – Present Alutiq, Sugpiaq Woman

Artist

3 James Schoppert Contemporary Artist,

Woodcarver, & Painter 1947 – 1992

Tlingit Innovator, Visual

Artist, Poet, & Essayist

4 Ron Senungetuk Contemporary Artist,

Sculptor, & Metalsmith 1933 – Present

An artist who happens to

be Inupiat, educator, &

founder of the Alaska

Native Center at UAF.

5 Alvin Amason Painter, Mixed Media,

Installation Artist 1948 – Present

Suqpiaq, Educator,

Founder of the Alaska

Native Arts Curriculum at

UAA

6 Kathleen Carlo-

Kendall

Contemporary Visual

Artist, Woodcarver,

Metalworker, & Sculptor

1952 – Present

Koyukon Athabascan,

Mask Maker, Woman

Artist, & Sculptor

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Art Kit Support Supply List

This is a list of the basic art materials your school should stock to support a majority of the FNSBSD Art

Kits. All of these supplies are available in the FNSBSD Central Stores Arts & Crafts Catalog. *Please

Note: If materials from other sources are used, it must be labeled “child safe.” The product should

have an “AP” or “CP” circular label.

DRAWING: BASIC PAPER:

Pencils: drawing assorted (H=hard, B=soft)

Crayons: colors, skin tones

Pastels: oil sets (Expressionist), chalk sets

Markers: broad-tip and thin-tip (red, yellow,

blue, green, violet, orange, brown, black)

Calligraphy Pens

Charcoal: stick, pencils

Tortillons (for blending pencil)

Construction Paper: 9”x12”, 12”x18”

(various colors)

Sulphite Drawing Paper: 9”x12”, 1”x18”,

18”x24” (white)

Manila Drawing Paper: 9”x12”, 12”x18”,

18”x24”

Newsprint

Fingerpaint Paper

PAINTING MATERIALS: SCULPTURE MATERIALS:

Brush: easel 1/4", 1/2", 1” (flat)

Brush: watercolor #3, #7, #10 (rounds)

Crayons: watercolor (Payons™)

Paint: finger

Paint: watercolor (sets)

Paint Refills: watercolor

Paint: washable (liquid poster paint)

Tempera Cakes

Clay (for firing)

Clay: modeling

Glazes

Super Dough™: (red, blue, yellow) tubs

Plaster Strips

Pipe Cleaners

Tongue Depressors

Aluminum Foil

PRINTMAKING MATERIALS: CRAFT MATERIALS:

Brayers: 4” (soft rubber)

Ink: tubes (block printing)

Burlap

Felt: squares

Needles: jumbo eye

Yarn: box, assorted

Craft Foil or Copper Tooling Foil

Specialty/Craft Papers

Art Paper: fadeless (duet)

Crepe Paper: (folds)

Origami Paper: packs, assorted colors

Astrobright™ Paper (copier)

Metallic Paper: packages

Tissue Paper: packs, assorted colors

Tracing Paper

Cellophane

BASICS:

Scissors

Rulers/Yardsticks

Protractors/Compasses

Elmer’s Glue-All™

Glue Sticks

Boards

Tag Board: 24” x 36” (for portfolios)

Railroad Board: (for posters) black, white,

various colors

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Art Activities & Appreciation Kits


Art Kit Order Assistance Sheet

Blue, bold-face font indicates a new kit.

A Color Book for Me!

Anemones

Animal Character Puppets

Artists Do Many Things

Art from the Berry Patch

Athabascan Mittens

Athabascan Regalia

Berry, Bill: Fairy Tale Friends

Birds & Bill Berry

Birches Branching Out

Building Blocks

Busy Bee Helpers

Cats in Art

Cave Art

Cheery “O’s”

Children’s Day Koi Streamers

Circles Everywhere

Collars of the Masai People

Color Collages

Color Critters (Color-Muh-Jigs)

Counting Sheep

Dance to the Music

Dancing Dragon Scrolls

Drawing with Lines

Elmer the Elephant

Finger Paint Prints

First Impressions: Portraits

Flags of the World

Gogh to Bed!

Handy Way to Measure

Ingredients of Art

Landscapes by David Mollett

Light, Lighter, Lightest

Magic Hats Around the School

Marble-Us-Me, Marble-Us-You

Miro's Imagination Lines

Moore, Henry: Figure Sculptures

“Moore Please”

Muskox in the Arctic

My Art Place

My Crayon Box

My Museum

Night Lights

Pattern Parade

Piggy Backed Shapes (unit)

Planet Necklaces

Pom-Pom Painting

Postcards from Van Gogh

Robots with Henry Moore

Shape-Kabobs

Shape-O-Saurus

Sled Dog Portraits

Snowmen at Night

Sponge Shape Prints

Storyteller’s Dream: Susie Qimmiqsak Bevins-

Ericsen

Sunflowers

Texture Treats

Toy Boxes in Perspective (revised)

Trees & Me

Van Gogh Gallery Game

Van Gogh Self-Portraits

Van Gogh’s Swirly Feathers

Van Gogh Swirling Lines & Dabs

Weaving Creative Creatures

Whale Migration (revised)

Wire Dreams

— Art Appreciation Kits — — Art Trunks & Birds — Andy Goldsworthy: Art from the Earth (4-6)

Painting Your Feelings: Franz Kline (K-3) Alaska Native Art: Birds:

Calligraphy (4-6) Papermaking (K-6) - Athabascan (K-3)

Cartooning in Stages (4-6) Plovers: A Nature Sketchbook (3-5) - Aleut (4) Please contact the Art Center for availability

Discovering Color with Sam Francis (K-3) Puppets & Jim Henson (3-6) - Yup’ik Eskimo (5-6)

Escher (4-6) Van Gogh (2-6) - General Studies (K-6)

Flowers & Radial Design (3-6) Watercolor Workshop: Wet-On-Wet (4-6)

Modigliani (2-6)

Mt. McKinley Landscapes (2-6)

Nebulas: Birth of a Star (K-3)

Kindergarten


A COLOR BOOK FOR ME! Materials:

• file folders, letter size

• pencil

Product: A decorated “lapbook” that can hold a

sketchbook

The book, A Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric Carle, will

inspire students to inspire their own “chameleon

creativity.” Students learn how to rub, trace and draw

chameleons to decorate the cover of their lap-book.

Students may add to the lap-book as a unit progresses.

ANEMONES Materials:

12" x 18" construction paper,

colored

liquid tempera paint

Product: A radial design painting of sea anemone

Students will travel with Mr. L-19, art teacher robot, on the

“Artship Centerprize” as he takes them on an exploration of

underwater life on planet Earth. They will focus on the radial

designs of sea anemones and learn brush techniques in painting.

Love those anemones!

ANIMAL CHARACTER PUPPETS Materials:

tongue depressors

crayons

glue

scissors

copies (template included)

Product: Combined images of animals to create stick

puppets and act out stories on their own

Students will examine how often animals are visible in

their world as in children’s books, television shows,

greeting cards, lunchboxes, etc. They will see that animals

can be depicted in many ways.

ART FROM THE BERRY PATCH Materials:

watercolor sets

brushes, medium

watercolor paper

Sharpie™ Markers, Black

construction paper, for mounting

toilet paper, thin-ply

water containers

Product: Pen/ink drawing/watercolor painting of a berry patch

Students learn about artists and illustrators who have been

inspired by berries! Edward Hofseth, Barbara Lavallee, Alice

Terstag, and Joanne Swanson are some from Alaska. Students

will examine berry illustrations from Blueberries for Sal by

Robert McCloskey and Berry Magic by Teri Sloat/Betty

Huffmon. They will create a pen/ink drawing of berries and

leaves with overlapping circles. Watercolor is then explored

with warm and cool colors and texture.

ARTIST DO MANY THINGS Materials:

pencil, brushes, & water cups

tempera cakes, assorted colors

oil pastels

12” x 18” construction paper, black

12” x 18” construction paper, white

(cut to 12” x 12”)

Product: A painting of a fruit or vegetable and a paper

sculpture

Students will learn about many types of artists, from

painters and sculptors, to printmakers, sketch artists and

more.

Kindergarten


ATHABASCAN MITTENS Materials:

construction paper, assorted colors

class set of markers to share (about

12 of each color)

scissors

Product: A paper mitten with drawn beadwork designs

(also a class mural of mittens)

Students will study the Athabascan Indians with special

emphasis on their ability to create clothes to survive the

harsh winters. Then they will make a paper mitten with a

beadwork design on it. They will add this mitten to

classmates’ mittens to make a mural of dancing mittens!

ATHABASCAN REGALIA Materials:

Lesson 1 (Dentalia Headbands)

3” x 22” yellow railroad board

stapler

staples

markers

glue sticks

Lesson 2 (Patterned Necklaces)

9” x 12” construction paper: blue

and purple

white tempera cakes

water containers

Blick® watercolor

markers, various colors

Lesson 3 (Baby Belts)

yarn for tassels

pony beads for details

liquid glue & glue sticks

thin-tipped markers, various colors

scissors

single-hole punch

12” x 18”

construction paper: light blue, dark

blue, or tan

4.5” x 6” construction paper: blue

or brown

Product: Students study Athabascan regalia and bead

workers, creating dentalia headbands, patterned necklaces,

and baby belts.

Students will study Athabascan regalia and Athabascan

women who are renowned for their elaborate beadwork.

Lesson 1: Students will learn about Dixie Alexander, a

Gwich’in Athabascan who takes pride in being an artist

and teacher. They will also learn about dentalium shells,

which have been used for ornamentation for centuries.

Students will use markers to color their flat (2D) “bead

work” pattern, then place it on their headband (3D) to don

as an appreciation for Athabascan regalia.

Lesson 2: Students will learn about Hannah Solomon, a

Gwich’in Athabascan who was a bead work artist for most

of her 102 years. Students will learn how dentalium shells

were used for creating Athabascan regalia to wear for

important events and ceremonies. They will draw “beads”

and paint “dentalium shell” patterns on construction paper

to make their own chief-style necklaces.

Lesson 3: Students will be introduced to

master bead worker Delores Sloan, an

Athabascan originally from Fort Yukon, known for her

solidly-beaded baby belts. Students will learn how to

create “beaded” flowers and place them on a construction

paper baby belt.

Kindergarten


BERRY, BILL: FAIRY TALE FRIENDS Materials:


5’ banner paper (two colors)

1" masking tape

oil pastels

Product: A mural of "fairy tale creatures"

Students will examine the work of Fairbanks artist Bill

Berry, specifically his Alaskan Fairy Tale mural in the

Noel Wien Library. Each student will create a "fairy tale

creature" by gluing together torn paper shapes and

decorating them with oil pastels. All students will tape

their creatures on a large mural made of banner paper.

BIRCHES BRANCHING OUT Materials:


7” x 12” construction paper, light

blue

7” x 3” construction paper, browns

and greens

construction paper, small torn

pieces: yellow, orange and green

1-1/2” x 11” tag board, white

glue sticks or bottle glue

washable tempera paint, black

1” x 3” cardboard scrap

paint cups

old newspapers

Product: A birch tree collage

Students will learn printmaking and collage techniques as

a result of observing the unique attributes of birch trees.

They will learn how artists make lines in different ways

such as thick, thin, horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and

how these lines create beautiful birch trees!

BIRDS & BILL BERRY Materials:

oil pastels


blue or gray

9” x 12” construction paper,

assorted colors (including brown)

glue stick

scissors

pencil

Product: An oil pastel of a close-up picture of a bird in a

tree

Students will learn about Bill Berry, a Fairbanks nature

artist, and look at his studies of birds. After looking at the

shapes that make up a bird, they will make a close-up

view of a tree and add their own colorful bird.

Kindergarten


BUILDING BLOCKS Materials:

construction paper: red, yellow,

blue and green

markers, black

glue

Product: A collage using geometric primary colored

paper shapes with drawn patterns

Students will become architects as they design block

buildings using colorful wooden blocks. After

constructing their buildings, students will engage in

using colored construction paper blocks to create paper

buildings and accent them with markers using color and

pattern. Students will learn vocabulary associated with

building blocks such as stacking, bridging, and

enclosures.

BUSY BEE HELPERS Materials:


yellow

7-1/2" x 10-1/2" construction

paper: blue, violet, and orange

paint brushes, #3

liquid paint: yellow, green, black

and white

paper plates

wet wipes (one per student)

Product: A painting of bumblebees in a field of flowers

Busy bees are helpful pollinators because they make our

food grow. Students will use creative painting techniques

to make their busy bee artwork. They will use plastic

forks to paint grass and sponge

paint bee shapes and flowers while

using crayons to create a curved

'bee line.' Using a variety of

modalities, students will learn to

identify the lower case letter 'b.'

Kindergarten


CATS IN ART Materials:


black (for drawing)

12" x 12" construction paper, your

choice-brown or red works well

(for mounting)

glue

oil pastels

Product: A mounted oil pastel picture of a cat

Students will examine cats in paintings and sculptures

and produce an oil pastel picture of a cat from a

photograph.

CAVE ART Materials:

12" x 18" construction paper, gray

Dura-Blocks™, earth-tones

(included)

charcoal sticks (included)

Product: A drawing of an animal on a rock wall with

textured background

After exploring "a cave" in their classroom, students will

create their own cave wall art using Dura-Blocks™ in

earth-tone colors and charcoal.

CHEERY “O’s” Materials:

construction paper

glue

scissors

paperclips

yarn or ribbon (for hanging)

Product: A 3-D construction paper ornament

Students will learn about National Cheer-Up Day and

how giving a piece of art can cheer someone up. They

create their Cheery “O’s” from three layers of

construction paper, cutting shapes into and bending the

layers to make a two-sided three-dimensional piece of

art. These are displayed along a colorful ribbon, just

waiting for the opportunity to be given to someone to

cheer them up!

CHILDREN’S DAY KOI STREAMERS Materials:

black marker (shared) or pencil

8.5” x 14” copy paper (legal size)

15” streamers or tissue/crepe paper

cut in 2” strips, assorted colors (3

per student)

1” x 1” construction paper, assorted

3” x 11” construction paper: blue,

green, green, purple, or orange

Tempera Cake: red, orange, yellow,

and black

½” brushes

Recommended:

5 small cups and damp sponges

Product: Windsock with printed rubber fish and streamers.

Students will create their own koinobori, a Japanese koi

windsock, to celebrate Children’s Day,

May 5th, which is a special holiday in

Japan. The koi fish’s anatomy is studied,

and a replica rubber fish is used for a

gyotaku print, including bubble wrap for

scale texture.

Kindergarten


CIRCLES EVERYWHERE Materials:


18” x 24” paper or 36” x 24” paper

folded over, white

crayons

Product: A large design of circle prints and crayon circles

Students will study circular designs found everywhere,

and then stamp or print many circles using different sized

circles. This may be used as the front of a portfolio

where the students can store their work.

COLLARS OF THE MASAI PEOPLE Materials:

markers

paper plates (cheap ones work

best)

Product: A Masai-patterned collar and necklace

Students will learn about the Masai people of Africa

(Kenya and Tanzania), and how they adorn themselves

with colorful patterned collars made of beads. Creating

patterns with markers, they will decorate a collar and

necklace of their own out of a paper plate.

COLOR COLLAGES Materials:

found materials, assortment

scissors

glue


assorted colors

Product: A mixed collage

Students will examine the color wheel and pick one color

to explore, using a variety of materials using that color

only.

COLOR CRITTERS (COLOR-MUH-JIGS) Materials:


black


assorted colors

scissors

glue

oil pastels

Product: A colorful “critter” designed from a prepared

paper, made with oil pastels, while exploring color

mixing

Students will listen to the story of White Rabbit’s Color

Book and learn how White Rabbit mixed all the primary

colors to make brown. Using oil pastels, they will

prepare a paper by mixing the primaries all over it,

exploring color combinations. They will then use that

paper and more oil pastels to create a “color-muh-jig”

(former name), an out-of-this-world looking creature on

large black paper.

COUNTING SHEEP Materials:

glue stick

scissors

liquid tempera paint, assorted colors

12” x 18” construction paper, gray

or light blue


and assorted colors

markers or crayons, black

pencil

Product: A mixed media sheep with printed spots for

counting

Students will learn how animals hibernate and how

people sleep more during the winter season. They will

then talk about the idea of counting sheep to fall asleep.

After looking at a sketch of a sheep by American artist

Alexander Calder, each student will make his or her own

sheep with printed spots for counting.

Kindergarten


DANCE TO THE MUSIC Materials:

oil pastels


assorted colors


(one sheet per student)

glue stick

scissors

pencil

Product: A colorful mixed media of a dancing person

Students will listen to festive active music. They will

“paint” to a beat and move with the music, stopping

occasionally to strike a pose. They will make figures in

these poses similar to the style of the artist Miriam

Shapiro, using oil pastels and construction paper.

DANCING DRAGON SCROLLS Materials:

6” x 18” white construction paper

(1 per student)

Cakes or liquid Tempera, 2 colors

Colorful paper for the borders

Hole punch

Yarn

Glue sticks

Pencil

Product: Dragon with whiskers, horns, big eyes, wings,

and a string to make it dance.

Students learn about the customs and activities of the

Chinese New Year. They make their own Dancing

Dragon with paint and markers. They create patterns

down the dragon’s body and add whiskers, horns, and big

round eyes. Fanciful drawn wings and a string make it

dance!

DISCOVERING COLOR WITH SAM FRANCIS Materials:

large drawing paper, white

water cups

brushes

marker sets, primary and

secondary colors: red, orange,

yellow, green, blue, and violet

Product: A large, colorful painting in the style of Sam

Francis created with markers, brushes, and water

Students are introduced to the large, non-representational

paintings of Sam Francis. They will discuss primary and

secondary colors and make a marker drawing. Then,

using water and a brush, students will blend the marker

colors on their papers.

DRAWING WITH LINES Materials:

crayons

Product: A design of many types of lines and an animal

line drawing

Students will find “lines” in the classroom and in artist

reproductions. They will practice making many types of

lines. Using stuffed animals as models, they will make

line drawings in the style of Alexander Calder.

Kindergarten


ELMER THE ELEPHANT Materials:

watercolor paints

construction paper, white

glue

scissors

Product: An elephant assembled from paper shapes and

painted

Students will listen to a story about an elephant, Elmer

by David McKee, and then create colorful elephant

characters of their own using pre-cut paper and

watercolors.

FINGER PAINT PRINTS Materials:

12" x 18" construction paper: red,

yellow and blue

finger paint: red, yellow and blue

liquid tempera: red, yellow and

blue

Product: A mixed media design of a drawing through

finger paint with found objects printed over the top

Students will learn how to mix media by first drawing in

a layer of finger paint and then printing found objects on

top of the finger paint design.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: PORTRAITS Materials:

construction paper, black and

white

crayons

tempera cakes

sponge dabbers

Product: A portrait of someone else in an impressionist-

style

Students will look at a number of American

Impressionism paintings including Margo Standing in

the Garden by Mary Cassatt. Using a dabbing technique

with a sponge, students will create an impressionist style

portrait.

FLAGS OF THE WORLD Materials:

scissors

glue


Product: An original flag design

Students will study the designs of flags from all around

the world and cut shapes (or use pre-cut shapes) to make

their own flag design.

Kindergarten


GOGH TO BED! Materials:

markers of various colors

9” x 12” black construction paper

glue

8 1/2” x 11” light blue and light

yellow photocopy paper

Product: A black line copy of Van Gogh’s The Bedroom

colorfully textured with varied lines.

After learning about painter Vincent Van Gogh and

listening to the book Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise

Brown, students will observe Van Gogh’s The Bedroom.

They will analyze and describe the variety of lines in his

painting. As artists, they will use colorful markers and

say good night to all their lines as they draw them on a

black line copy of The Bedroom picture. Good night

lines…

HANDY WAY TO MEASURE Materials:

9” x 10” construction paper:

yellow, orange and magenta


1-1/2” x 12” construction paper

strips, black

construction paper scraps, various

shapes

liquid tempera paint: green, blue

and white

markers, black, fine point

glue, white

Product: A collage incorporating students’ handprints

and drawings from observation

Students learn about the concept of actual size through

the book Actual Size by Steve Jenkins. Students measure

images from the book using non-standard units of

measurements. Through observation, students find,

identify, and draw things that are smaller than their hand.

Their own handprint becomes the center of the artwork

as drawn objects are compared to the actual size of their

hand.

Kindergarten


INGREDIENTS OF ART Materials:

crayons

scissors

glue


Product: A design containing four "ingredients" (elements) of

art: line, shape, color, and texture

After participating in exercises that introduce the concepts of

line, shape, color, and texture, students will create a design

that contains all four of these "ingredients" or elements of art.

LANDSCAPES BY DAVID MOLLET Materials:


black (cut to 12" x 15")

9" x 12" construction paper, white

(one per student; to mount on the

black paper)

Product: A tempera paint and black crayon-resist

landscape

Students will study the work of Fairbanks artist, David

Mollett, carefully examining his landscapes. After

creating a foreground, middle ground, and background

with a variety of black crayon lines, they will use

tempera cakes to paint a color scheme and learn how

crayons "resist" the paint.

LIGHT, LIGHTER, LIGHTEST Materials:

tempera cakes

12” x 18” drawing paper, white

and black

Product: A design containing shapes in a specific color with

white added for different lightened effects

Students will look at paintings and note different shades of the

same color. They will then make a design with light, lighter, and

lightest shade of that color.

Kindergarten


MAGIC HATS AROUND THE SCHOOL Materials:

large construction paper, white

paper streamers (optional)

cut-paper, assorted shapes

glue

scissors

Product: A folded paper hat with shapes and streamers

Students will learn where all the special and important

places are located in the school. They will go on a

“scavenger hunt” to collect shapes. These shapes are

added to their own three-corner folded hat. Watch for the

hat parade!

MARBLE-US-ME, MARBLE-US-YOU Materials:

shaving cream

liquid tempera

Product: A mixed media marbleized world

Students will imagine looking at earth from outer space

and see that it looks like a giant marble. This marble is

the home of billions of marvelous unique people. The

students will paint with a marbling technique and create a

mixed media world to “hold” in their art.

MIRÓS IMAGINATION LINES Materials:

8-1/2" x 5-1/2" computer paper,

white (three per student)

9" x 6" construction paper, black

(to frame art)

bold markers: black, yellow, and

red

highlighter, blue

thin-tip markers, black

glue sticks

Product: An imagination drawing

that starts with a line

Students are introduced to

artwork by Spanish artist Joan

Miró, and will practice using

their imagination. Students will draw using a continuous

curved line that travels and crosses over itself to make

many shapes. They will identify and use primary colored

markers to fill in these shapes. Finally, students will use

their imagination and creativity to turn their drawings

into interesting pictures in the style of Joan Miró.

MOORE, HENRY: FIGURE SCULPTURES Materials:


assorted colors



self-hardening clay (Super

Dough™)

white glue

scissors

Product: A small, abstract, figure sculpture with its 2D

"plan" standing behind it

Students will examine figure sculptures of English

sculptor Henry Moore, and create their own sculptures in

his style. With the help of a "Henry-Moore-O-Scope,"

students will begin to see the world as he did.

Kindergarten


“MOORE PLEASE” Materials:

construction paper, black and white

tempera paints

glue

scissors

Product: A painted 3-D paper sculpture

Students will learn about the sculptor Henry Moore, who

used positive and negative shapes in his figure-based

sculptures. Students will cut holes in paper shapes and

then paint around these shapes to create their own

positive/negative paper sculpture.

MUSKOX IN THE ARCTIC Materials:

Playdough™: red, yellow and blue

cardstock or index cards, white

railroad board, white (one sheet)

construction paper: blue, green,

brown and black

oil pastels

Product: A 3D muskox sculpture

Students will learn many facts about muskoxen,

including the fact that they have roamed the Arctic since

the time of woolly mammoths and that they have soft,

warm coats and valuable underwool called qiviut used to

make hats and shawls. Students will mix red, yellow, and

blue clay to create brown, then shape their own muskox

to add to a classroom herd.

MY ART PLACE Materials:

12” x 18” construction paper


liquid tempera: red, blue and

yellow

glue

scissors

yarn (one small piece per student)

sponge (for handprints)

Product: A paper collage with paper scraps, yarn, and a

handprint

Students will base their project off of the book Growing

Up to be an Artist by Lois Ehlert. They will create their

own “art place” by cutting out artists’ tools, paper scraps,

yarn, and add their own handprint.

MY CRAYON BOX Materials:


12" x 18" construction paper (for

teacher mounting)

crayons

Product: A crayon drawing exploring many ways to use

crayons

Students will listen to a story about the many fun ways to

use crayons. They will then explore these ways in a

lesson/drawing directed by the teacher.

MY MUSEUM Materials:

crayon, black

glue stick





2” x 18” construction paper, green

9” x 16” construction paper: light

blue, dark blue, pink and gray

Product: A 2D torn paper picture of a modern museum

Students will learn about museums and what they are

used for. They will look at pictures of museums and

modern buildings. Students will then design their own

museum using simple shapes for the building’s elements,

windows, and doors.

Kindergarten


NEBULAS: BIRTH OF A STAR Materials:

tempera paint, red and orange

oil pastels


black

Product: A mixed media picture of a star nebula

Students will study the phenomenon of the birth of a star

from a nebula and create nebula pictures with paint, oil

pastels, and imagination.

NIGHT LIGHTS Materials:

liquid tempera paint, white


7” x 18” construction paper, blue

construction paper scraps, yellow

and black

easel brushes, 1”

glue

scissors

Product: Creative drawing on a painted paper surface

resembling “scratchboard”

Students will read the book House in the Night, by

Caldecott Medal winner Susan Marie Swanson, and be

inspired. After learning about the process that the

illustrator used and interacting with the illustrations

through puzzles, students replicate her scratchboard

process to create their own imagery by drawing through a

painted surface.

Kindergarten


PAINTING YOUR FEELINGS: FRANZ KLINE Materials:

liquid tempera, black

18" x 24" paper, manila (large is

best)

oil pastels

pencil

Product: A large and bold mixed media abstract

expression of students’ feelings

Students will examine different ways to feel and then

study the work of American painter Franz Kline, who

often painted abstract pictures of his feelings. They will

then create a bold mixed media abstract expression of

their own feelings.

PAPERMAKING This appreciation kit contains a blender, screens, frames,

other supplies and instructions to assist with

papermaking.

PATTERN PARADE (TWO LESSONS) Materials:


primary and secondary colors


butcher paper

markers, black

glue

scissors

Product: A wearable patterned sash, a graph, and an

abstract collage made from textured geometric shapes

Students will learn about the practice patterns, both

auditory and visual. They will develop their own pattern

on a wearable sash and graph the shapes they used. Later,

they will use their graph to re-select the same shapes.

Lastly, they will design a piece of art that uses their

shapes, adding patterns and textures.

PIGGY BACKED SHAPES Materials:

Lesson 1 (Pigs on a Square)



marker, fine-tip, black

crayons, without paper

Lesson 2 (with Kandinsky)

11-1/2 x 4” construction paper,

white

12” x 4-1/2” construction paper,

black

watercolor markers, black (used to

draw thin and thick and thick

lines)

felt markers, fine-point (used for

tracing the stencils)

Product: Students focus on five geometric shapes in this

unit


circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, and

ovals. They will “meet” the shapes from

pages of a book, through a song, and by drawing and

coloring pigs while using stencils.

Lesson 2: Students will learn

about Russian painter, Wassily

Kandinsky, an artist who

enjoyed painting many shapes and colors. This lesson

will piggyback Lesson 1 by using five geometric shapes

to complete their drawings. Students will practice

stenciling and drawing free-hand before using crayons to

color their artwork. They finish by using black markers

to make thin and thick lines inspired by Kandinsky’s

Kindergarten


crayons, without paper, assorted

colors

Lesson 3 (zoo animals)


4” x 4” construction paper, brown

(giraffe body)

Continued on the next page…

4-1/2” x 6” construction paper:

brown, gray, white

construction paper, oval shapes:

gray, white, and brown (elephant,

lion, and zebra bodies)

construction paper, circle shapes:

gray, black, and brown

construction paper, small rectangle

shapes: brown, gray, and white

(for legs)

glue sticks

markers, black

pencils

scissors

paintings.

Lesson 3: Students create zoo animals for this

final lesson using geometric shapes. When

they decide which animal to make, they use

various shapes of construction paper to form

it. They arrange the shapes like puzzle pieces

before gluing all the pieces together. They

draw thin and thick lines using black markers to create

the details. Finally, they bubble-cut around the animal to

give it a small border.

PLANET NECKLACES Materials:

Super Dough™: red, blue and

yellow

yarn

pipe cleaners or plastic needles

Product: A necklace of clay beads (planets) made by

mixing the primary colors together to make the

secondary colors

Students will study color mixing using clay. They will

mix the primary colors together to make the secondary

colors in the form of small beads or “planets” and sew

them into a necklace to wear.

POM-POM PAINTING Materials:

liquid tempera paint (magenta,

green, white, blue)

paper plates, small (for mixing

paint)


green


magenta

Product: Flower painting

Students begin their art play with pom-poms, tongs, and

tubes! Colored pom-poms are picked up

with tongs and sent through tubes for fun

fine motor skills practice. Students use

pom-poms for painting a garden of

flowers with long, tall strokes. Stamping

and dabbing will complete their beautiful

flower garden.

Kindergarten


POSTCARDS FROM VAN GOGH Materials:

construction paper:

o 6” x 8” black

o 7” x 9” variety of colors for

the border

Glue

Product: A crayon and oil pastel drawing inspired by

Van Gogh’s landscape paintings.

Students learn that Vincent Van Gogh wrote many letters

during his lifetime. Students glean inspiration from Van

Gogh Postcard series to make their own landscape. They

study and learn the names of three straight lines that

denote feelings and movement when used in artwork.

They use construction paper crayons to show their

vertical, horizontal, diagonal, and variety of lines. Oil

pastel details brighten their fields of flowers making

them look near and far.

ROBOTS WITH HENRY MOORE Materials:


assorted colors

tongue depressors (one per

student)

Cellophane™, assorted colors

Product: An interactive construction paper robot mask

using assorted collage materials

Students will view and learn about the Helmet Sculptures

by Henry Moore. The history of the robot is shared

through a photo storyboard allowing students to both

learn and imagine how we use robots. Their robot heads

are created by cutting and gluing construction paper. Cut

paper buttons, switches, dials, knobs, and wire complete

the robot’s “circuit board.”

Kindergarten


SHAPE-KABOBS Materials:

copier paper

scissors

glue

railroad board or poster paper (one

piece)

Product: Colorful, textured shapes glued on a long handle like

a shish-kabob

Students will make texture rubbings of shapes, cut them out,

and then glue them on a long railroad board handle creating a

Shape-Kabob!

SHAPE-O-SAURUS Materials:

12” x 18” paper, black

rectangles, white and assorted

sizes

glue

markers, black

Product: A colorful dinosaur.

Students will use background color to shape the

dinosaurs by “cutting with their marker.”

SLED DOG PORTRAITS Materials:



1-1/2” x 9” construction paper, brown


marker, fine point black

glue

scissors

Product: A sled dog portrait in relief using oil pastels and

a paper plate

Students learn about the sport of dog mushing and the

Arctic Winter Games. After viewing local photos of the

sport of dog mushing, students create their own sled dog

portrait using familiar shapes and oil pastels.

SNOWMEN AT NIGHT Materials:

paper plates

liquid tempera paint: blue and white



liquid glue

white crayon (optional)

Product: Painted snowman on a

paper plate

Through play, students explore basic

physics using air as a propellant.

Pom poms swoosh through tunnels

and up ramps looking very much

like snowmen on a playground. After looking at photos of

snowmen, students use the pomp poms as painting tools to

make their own snowman.

SPONGE SHAPE PRINTS Materials:

liquid tempera paint, one or

assorted colors

construction paper, any size and

color

Product: A design made of many printed shapes (size is

optional)

Students will dip shaped sponges into paint and print

them in a design on construction or banner paper.

Kindergarten


STORYTELLERS DREAM: SUSIE QIMMIQSAK BEVINS-ERICSEN Materials:


brown


colors


(two per student)


assorted colors

glue sticks

scissors

Product: Interactive paper sculpture of two figures

(storytellers)

Students learn about the Alaska Native artist Susie

Qimmiqsak Bevins-Ericksen, and her journey from the

top of the world (Beechy Point) to becoming a well-

known sculptor with many artworks in Fairbanks.

Students learn how to construct a paper sculpture inspired

by one of her wooden sculptures. Tracing, cutting, gluing,

and patterning are used in the making of the sculpture.

SUNFLOWERS Materials:

tempera cakes

brushes

water cups

12" x 18" drawing paper, white

oil pastels

Product: A mixed media picture of sunflowers

Students will study van Gogh and his love for painting

sunflowers. They will examine photos of sunflowers and

make mixed media-resist paintings using oil pastels and

tempera paint.

Kindergarten


TEXTURE TREATS Materials:

Dura-Blocks™ or crayon chunks

8-1/2“ x 14” copier paper

glue

12” x 18” construction paper, colored

(for mounting)

Product: A mounted design composed of a variety of

colors and textures

Students will examine texture in their environment, and

then create colorful textural designs using special texture

placements included in this kit.

TOY BOXES IN PERSPECTIVE Materials:


assorted colors


assorted colors

Construction paper, assorted die-

cut shapes

Glue stick

Product: A folded paper toy box containing die-cut toys.

Students will be inspired by Wayne Thiebauld’s colorful

paintings of toys, and discover perspective

by putting away die-cut toys in their very

own paper toy box, overlapping them to

show near and far relationships.

TREES & ME Materials:

oil pastels

watercolors


yellow, blue and gray

glue

scissors

Product: A mixed media of “Tree and Me” artwork

Students will be introduced to the work of kindergarten

scientists, (a naturalist) and Susan LeFlesche Picotte

(first American Indian woman physician). After looking

at the book Are Trees Alive?, students will create a mixed

media “Tree and Me” artwork.

Kindergarten


VAN GOGH GALLERY GAME Materials:

Payons™


brushes, small (as for watercolors)

water cups

Product: A picture of flowers or landscape in the style of

Vincent van Gogh, drawn/painted with Payons™

Students will review the work of grade-level artist

Vincent van Gogh in discussion, and by playing card

sorting games with the set of Vincent cards provided in

the kit. They learn how to use Payons™, a watercolor

crayon, by trying to make a picture of flowers or land in

the style of Vincent van Gogh. Classes may also opt to

just explore Payon™ possibilities in open-ended

drawing/painting.

VAN GOGH SELF-PORTRAITS Materials:

crayons

Tempera paint cakes, primary &

secondary colors

Brushes

Water bowls


white & black

Glue

Product: Self-portrait

Students study the self-portraits of the Dutch painter

Vincent Van Gogh. They look at his impressionist style

of painting and then create their own self-portrait in

tempera paints.

VAN GOGH’S SWIRLY FEATHERS Materials:

washable Crayola Paint: magenta,

blue, yellow

cotton swabs

sporks


blue, magenta

5 1/2” x 16” finger paint paper- cut

into feathers using template

oil pastels

Product: A swirly feather-shaped painting similar to Van

Gogh’s The Starry Night.

A monoprint from the feather painting.

A collaborative wing span with each students’ feather

paintings.

After carefully observing and exploring Vincent Van Gogh’s

painting titled The Starry Night, and learning about him as an

artist, students will begin by mixing paint into secondary

colors. Using a spork, they will paint and play with swirly

textured lines before creating their own stars on feather shaped

finger paint paper. Finally, they will make a monoprint using

this feather. The feather-shaped painting will be used in a

collaborative display as wings.

Kindergarten


VAN GOGH: SWIRLING LINES AND DABS Materials:

watercolors

brushes

construction paper, white and

colored

glue

Product: A painting using swirls and dabs of color in the

style of Vincent van Gogh

Students will examine Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night

and Landscape and create a painting using his swirling

and flowing style.

Kindergarten


WEAVING CREATIVE CREATURES Materials:

1-3/4" X 12" construction paper:

light green, salmon and magenta

9" x 12" construction paper:

orange, green and purple

6" x 6"

construction

paper, white

glue sticks

scissors

Product: Paper weaving that turns into a creative collage

creature

Students will learn that Alaska Natives used a variety of

materials to weave baskets and hats. They will create

their own paper weaving using secondary colors. While

weaving in an 'A-B' pattern, they sing: "over, under, up,

and down." Markers and scrap paper help them finish

their creative creatures.

WHALE MIGRATIONS Materials:



Optional spray bottle filled with

blue water made from diluted

water color paint.

Product: Crayon and watercolor PayonTM rubbings of an

Alaskan whale, dolphin, or porpoise.

Students will study Alaskan whales, dolphins, and

porpoises’ anatomy and their

migration habits. They will

then create a rubbing using

crayons and PayonsTM, and

“paint” with water to blend

their PayonsTM for an ocean

water effect.

WIRE DREAMS Materials:

railroad board or cardstock,

assorted sizes

Product: Expressive and colorful wire sculptures that are

attached to a card for display

Students will create a small, wire sculpture from easy-to-bend

colorful wire. The concepts of bend, twist, overlap, curl, and

pinch are practiced as they use their imaginations to create

their sculptures. Students attach their sculptures to a card and

label their creations. A literature connection is included.



Blue, bold-face font indicates a new kit. African Houses

African Painted Rhythms

Alaska Bear Dreams

Animal Portraits with Todd Sherman

Antler Art: Seasonal Symmetry

Arctic Terns: Chasing the Sun (revised)

Athabascan Beadwork Paintings

Beginning Line Drawing

Blending Colors; Venn Diagrams

Brushing Our Teeth (2 Parts)

Building a Mondrian Sculpture

Calder’s Color Book

Calder’s Fish

Calder Shape Mobiles

Can-Do-Ski (2 Parts)

Carousel Color & Mood

Color of Our Own

Colors-Go-Round

Crayon Portraits

Delicious Fruit

Drawing with Shapes (unit) (2 Parts)

Eric Carle Mural

Everyone Draws Differently

Fairbanks’ First Family

Fancy Castles & Northern Lights

Finding Our Lines: Self-Portraits (2 Parts)

Fish Eyes

Flower Magic

Folded Dream House

Folded Lines

Grandma Moses Dioramas

Grandma Moses: Feather Weather

Grandma Moses: Kid Cards

Grandma Moses: LEGO Landscapes

Grandma Moses Mural

Grandma Moses: Window Landscape

How to Paint with Watercolor

Ice Sculptors & Sculptures: Diamonds of the North

Inukshuk: Guide to the Games

I See a Song

Japanese Poetry Bells

Jetliner Designer

Kandinsky Kids

Layers of Land

Let's Draw Like Vincent Van Gogh

Line Dancing

Looking at Buttons

Mondrian Boogie Woogie

Mondrian Line Design

Mondrian Trees

Mouse Colors

My Community Square

My Shadow & Me

On Mother’s Lap

Paint by Numbers

Patterns in Nature: Boolaboo

Picasso's Collages

Pipe Cleaner People

Poppies from the News

Portraits of Each Other

Rainforest Layers

Secrets: Sonja Kelliher-Combs

Sky, Mountains & Me

Solar Stars

Sonya Kelliher-Combs’ Kuspuks

Sonya’s Shapes (3 lessons)

Stacking Still Life

Still Life: Delicious Fruit (2 Parts)

Swimmer: A Migrating Salmon

Toys & Us: Figure Toys

Tractor Tracks

Veggies: Matisse Goes to Mexico (2 Parts)

Weather Lines

Weave N' Print

Wind & Wings

Winter Color Landscapes

Wire, Beads & Me with Kelliher-Combs

You’ve Got a Friend in Me

— Art Appreciation Kits — — Art Trunks & Birds — Andy Goldsworthy: Art from the Earth (4-6) Nebulas: Birth of a Star (K-3) Alaska Native Art: Birds:

Calligraphy (4-6) Painting Your Feelings: Franz Kline (K-3) - Athabascan (K-3)

Cartooning in Stages (4-6) Papermaking (K-6) - Aleut (4) Please contact the Art Center for availability

Discovering Color with Sam Francis (K-3) Plovers: A Nature Sketchbook (3-5) - Yup’ik Eskimo (5-6)

Escher (4-6) Puppets & Jim Henson (3-6) - General Studies (K-6)

Flowers & Radial Design (3-6) Van Gogh (2-6)

Modigliani (2-6) Watercolor Workshop: Wet-On-Wet (4-6)


First Grade


AFRICAN HOUSES Materials:

• 9” x 12" construction paper: earth-

tones or neutral gray, sky blue or

blue

• oil pastels

• scissors

• glue

Product: A 3-D model of an African-style house

decorated in brilliant oil pastel designs

Students will study hand-painted house designs of

Southern and Western Africa and make a three-

dimensional model in one of those styles.

AFRICAN PAINTED RHYTHMS Materials:


white

3" x 18" construction paper strips:

red, orange, yellow, blue, purple

and green

glue

Product: An abstract painting consisting of the art

elements of warm or cool colors

Students will create a lively abstract painting using a

warm or cool color family. Their artwork develops as

they draw shapes, lines, textures, and patterns, which

create interesting spaces, that are later painted. As they

paint, they listen to music from South Africa.

ALASKA BEAR DREAMS Materials:

construction paper: black, orange,

green and purple

paper pieces, small, assorted

colors

metallic paper, small pieces

crayons: black, brown and white

scissors

glue

Product: A bear or bear family sleeping in a cave with an

attached strip showing in cut-paper what they are

dreaming about

Students will look at the book Alaska’s Three Bears and

other photos and art reproductions. They will then

discuss various bear habitats and habits to distinguish

between the brown bear, the black bear, and the polar

bear. After drawing a sleeping bear, they will imagine

and design the bear’s dream.

ALPHABIRCH TREES Materials:

scissors

glue

crayons, black

Crayola® washable paint: blue,

yellow and red


12” x 18” construction paper, dark

brown



Product: A 3D construction paper tiered and textured

landscape with drawn birch trees using the alphabet as

branches and painted leaves to represent summer and fall

Students will make a 3D construction paper textured

landscape that shows foreground, middle ground, and

background. They learn to draw birch trees and use

letters of the alphabet to form branches. Students will

explore mixing primary colors to create secondary colors

as they paint the treetops with fall and summer colors

using a technique called “pointillism.” Students add their

colorful trees to their landscape to show both near and

far.

First Grade


ANIMAL PORTRAITS WITH TODD SHERMAN Materials:



assorted colors

Payons™

glue

Product: A colorful self-portrait of the student as an

Alaskan animal

Students will learn about local Fairbanks artist Todd

Sherman. They will view his early work (ages 5-20) and

his current animal portraits. The students will then draw

their own portrait as an Alaskan animal. They will finish

their portraits with the watercolor Payons™.

ANTLER ART: SEASONAL SYMMETRY Materials:

9” x 12” construction paper: black,

red, magenta, blue, & green

Washable Tempera paint: red,

yellow, orange, green, magenta,

black, white, and brown

Wipes or damp paper towels

Paper plates

Liquid glue

Product: Artwork with moose or caribou and a simple

landscape with colorful foliage.

Students learn about two

amazing antler makers: moose

and caribou. They have a change

to see and feel these antlers,

which the animals shed every

year. Then, students play with

the paint printing process that

uses symmetry to transfer their designs. Fall and

summer seasons are highlighted, and a moose or caribou

is created with colorful foliage.

ARCTIC TERNS: CHASING THE SUN Materials:

9” x 12” construction paper: dark

blue, purple/white, gray, & red

12” x 18”

construction

paper, black

Oil pastels

Glue sticks

Product: A torn paper arctic tern and oil pastel earth

Students learn the Arctic Tern is the champion migrator

of the world. They travel over 40,000 miles, from the

Arctic region to the Antarctic region and back every

year. They see more sunlight than any other animal in

the world.

Students create their own torn paper Arctic Tern, and

place it chasing the sun around an oil pastel Earth.

ATHABASCAN BEADWORK PAINTINGS Materials:


manila, tan, or white

watercolor paints

brushes

water cups

paper towels

Product: A watercolor painting inspired by Athabascan

beadwork designs

Students are introduced to the Athabascan culture and the

art of bead working. They will learn to use watercolors to

paint beadwork-like designs.

First Grade


BEGINNING LINE DRAWING Materials:

paper, white

crayons

broad-tip markers, black

fine-tip markers, black

Product: A crayon drawing

Students will explore and name many different lines. In

this lesson, they are also introduced to the artist Wassily

Kandinsky to see how he used lines and color shapes to

make art. Following directions, each student will create a

line and shape composition of his/her own.

BLENDING COLORS; VENN DIAGRAMS (2 PARTS) Materials:


black




oil pastels: red, yellow and blue

envelopes

glue

scissors

Product: A Venn diagram that serves as a color wheel and

an abstract collage

Students will learn how to sort objects into groups using a

Venn diagram. They will use an oil pastel blending

technique and primary colors to create secondary colors.

Colors are cut into shapes and placed on their Venn

diagram to create a “Color Wheel Venn.” The scraps from

the color swatches are kept for the following lesson where

students are challenged by the chance to collage their

scraps in a color line. Students will then check the

accuracy of their collage using their “Color Wheel Venn”

as a guide.

BRUSHING OUR TEETH (2 PARTS) Materials:

1/2” x 16” and ½” x 10”

construction paper, black

12” x 18” construction paper, pink


white

washable liquid paint (in mustard-

type bottles): magenta, blue and

yellow

light corn syrup (optional)

model of teeth

toothbrush

glue

Product: An abstract glossy painting of teeth using

vertical and horizontal black strips.

Students will review dental hygiene and learn that

effective brushing is important. They will also learn that

toothbrushes, teeth of combs and tongue depressors are

great tools to use in art. They will make a glossy

painting with wonderful textures and lines using these

unconventional items.

BUILDING A MONDRIAN SCULPTURE Materials:

construction paper: red, blue,

yellow, white and black

glue stick

Product: A paper sculpture box

Students will explore one of Piet Mondrian’s geometric

paintings, looking at colors, shapes, and lines. After

learning how to make simple cubes, they will construct a

paper sculpture using basic colors like Mondrian used.

First Grade


CALDER’S COLOR BOOK Materials:



primary colors

scissors

glue sticks

Product: A construction paper book structure with

student designed covers

Students will locate text features while viewing a

magazine about Alexander Calder. They will create a

book structure and then design the cover using colorful

Calder-like construction paper. Students will take home

informational text in the form of a bookmark to create

additional books.

CALDER’S FISH Materials:

construction paper, primary and

secondary colors

thick-tip water-based markers,

black,

scissors

glue

Product: A cut-out paper fish collage

Students will take a fun and playful look at Alexander

Calder’s many fish sculptures. Students will emulate his

wonderful lines and create their own cut-paper fish full

of paper scraps that replicate the found objects and glass

he used. Primary and secondary colors are reviewed and

cutting skills are honed.

CALDER SHAPE MOBILES Materials:

construction paper: red, yellow

and blue

pipe cleaners

Product: A colorful mobile of abstract shapes

Alexander Calder, an American artist, is famous for

inventing mobiles. Students will create their own mobiles

using shapes and color schemes similar to Calder's style.

CAN-DO-SKI (2 PARTS) Materials:

12" x 18" paper, white (cut to 11" x 17")

12" x 18" construction paper, assorted

colors (for mounting)

glue

Product: Abstract painting of shapes in a warm or cool color

scheme

Students will study abstract shape work of Kandinsky and

compose a similar style painting in warm or cool colors.

CAROUSEL COLOR & MOOD Materials:

tempera paint, primary colors

paint brushes

banner paper or large drawing

paper, white

Product: A life-sized carousel animal made of pieces’ that

are individually painted by children

Students will explore the relationship between color and

mood and together create a monumental and colorful

carousel animal.

First Grade


CARVER: FLOWER FUN! Materials:

scissors

glue


assorted shades of blue

construction paper, assorted sizes

and shapes (to create flowers)

yarn

Product: A bright construction paper handing panel with

3-D relief flowers and leaves

Students will learn that George Washington Carver was

not only known as a scientist and an inventor call the

“Peanut Man,” but was also recognized as an artist who

loved to paint flowers. Students use bright construction

paper to construct 3-D relief flowers and leaves onto a

hanging panel.

COLOR OF OUR OWN Materials:

tempera cakes


paint brush

masking tape

permanent markers, black

Product: A printed chameleon and papers

After reading Leo Leonni’s book, A Color of His Own,

students will use the chameleon shape and tempera paint

to explore Mr. Leonni’s illustrated style and create a

class book.

COLORS-GO-ROUND Materials:

glue

2” or 3” paper circles, colored

1” paper strips, colored


white and black

Product: A torn paper collage

Students will look at the art of Alma Thomas, who loved

to paint things she could see using color and light. They

will create their own art using torn colored paper strips to

make rings of color around a circle. They will make lots

of choices in creating their art.

CRAYON PORTRAITS Materials:

paper, white

crayons

Product: A full-figure portrait

Students will discuss Goya's portrait of a child,

experiment with crayon pressure, and then color a full-

figure portrait.

First Grade


DELICIOUS FRUIT Materials:

PayonsTM (1 per student)


brown, black, & white

Glue sticks

Scissors

Paint brushes

Water cups

Paper towels

Product: Students create colorful paper fruit inside a

paper bowl.

Students learn that a Still Life is often a painting or

drawing of an arrangement of fruit or flowers. After

discussing and describing fruit, they practice the basic art

skills of cutting, gluing, and

coloring. Students create

colorful paper fruit and

assemble them in a cut paper

bowl. Student explore

techniques of coloring and

painting with PayonsTM.



water cups

brushes











DRAWING WITH SHAPES (UNIT – 2 PARTS) Materials:

Lesson 1

construction paper

scissors

glue

pencil

circle stencil (included in kit)

Lesson 2

copied worksheet

markers, fine tip

crayons

pencil

felt boards and shapes (included in

kit)

Product:

Lesson 1: Shape quilt of organic and geometric shapes

Lesson 2: Felt board “drawing practice” and a final

drawing of the felt board art based on various creature

posters in the style of Charley Harper

Lesson 3: Pop-up done in three layers: a background

layer of sky or water, middle layer pop-up support is tree

or seaweed, and a pop-up creature drawing made with

shapes

Students will learn how artists use simple shapes to

create works of art.

Lesson 1 begins with a review of color families and

some basic geometric shapes, as well as an introduction

to “organic” shapes.

Lesson 2 features artist Charley Harper and how he uses

simple shapes in his drawings. Students use felt boards to

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Lesson 3

construction paper

markers, chisel-tip,

black

scissors

glue

shape stencils, construction paper

crayons (included in kit)

create images from various creature phots, one of which

they copy as a “coloring book” drawing.

Lesson 3 adds dimension to the “coloring book” style,

separating the art into three layers to create a pop-up.

ERIC CARLE MURAL Materials:

paper scraps

butcher paper, large

glue

Product: A torn paper character to add to a class mural of

dancing friends

Students will be inspired by Eric Carle and Kazuo

Iwamura’s book, Where Are You Going? To See My

Friend! They will make a classroom mural with torn

paper in the shapes of people, animals, and insects.

EVERYONE DRAWS DIFFERENTLY Materials:


drawing materials, assortment

blank calendar, blank

Product: Individual pictures for a weekly calendar page

Students will look at the differences between many

artists, their subjects, and the materials used. They will

then make a picture of their own for a calendar page.

First Grade


FAIRBANKS’ FIRST FAMILY Materials:

4” x 12” construction paper: red,

yellow and blue


yellow and blue


assorted colors

1/2” x 12” construction paper,

assorted colors

2” x 2” construction paper, skin-

tones

scissors

glue

Product: A circular paper sculpture of student’s family

Students will view photographs of the bronze sculpture

Unknown First Family in Golden Heart Plaza. They will

learn about the sculptor, Malcolm Alexander, who

created the artwork. Students will create their own

circular first family sculpture from paper and abstract

forms.

FANCY CASTLES & NORTHERN LIGHTS Materials:

12" x 18" paper, dark (for sky

background)

construction paper, assorted

squares and rectangles, assorted

colors

oil pastels

scissors

glue

Product: A fancy cut-paper building on a background

with northern lights

Students will look at pictures of the northern lights and

discuss the corona and ribbon forms. They will also

study pictures from around the world of fancy buildings

paying particular attention to dome, arch, and tower

shapes. Using these architectural elements, students will

create their own fancy cut-paper buildings.

FINDING OUR LINES: SELF-PORTRAITS (2 PARTS) Materials:

11" x 17" drawing paper, manila

or white


black

glue

broad-tip marker, black

Product: A contour line self-portrait mounted on black

background

Students will explore their face parts with hands and

mirrors, will learn to find lines on edges, and will make a

self-portrait. The kit includes photos of Alexander

Calder's grade-level artist line drawings of faces and wire

line masks.

FISH EYES Materials:

12” x 18” paper, blue

12” x 18” paper, purple

Astrobright® paper, assorted

colors

scissors

glue

Product: Fish created from brightly colored papers put

into a collaborative counting book

Students will enjoy looking at patterns and predicting

what comes next with the book Fish Eyes by Lois Ehlert.

Students will make their own colorful and patterned fish.

First Grade


FLOWER MAGIC Materials:

oil pastels

12" x 18" construction or drawing

paper, white


colored

glue

copier paper

Product: An oil pastel drawing of flowers, edge-torn and

mounted on construction paper

Students will observe flowers and flower art. They will

then create their own flowers using a fun tearing and

smearing technique with paper and oil pastels.

FOLDED DREAM HOUSE Materials:

markers

11" x 11" copier paper, colored


Product: An origami-folded house boldly decorated with

lines, pattern, and color

This lesson is based on the art of Grandma Moses. She

often used houses in her subject matter, and students will

learn about her life and art. Students will also listen to

the humorous book, The Big Orange Splot by Daniel

Pinkwater. They will learn how to make a paper-folded

house, draw in doors and windows, and finish their

dream house with lines, color, patterns, and shapes.

There are many possible extension lessons with this

project.

FOLDED LINES Materials:


white

glue

assorted squares and strips: black,

blue, yellow and red

Product: A folded line relief sculpture

Students will look at the work of two artists, Alexander

Calder, a sculptor, and Piet Mondrian, a painter. Both

artists used line, shape, and color. Students will make

artwork by arranging overlapping flat shapes, then

folding paper lines to make a relief sculpture.

First Grade


GRANDMA MOSES DIORAMAS Materials:


white or colored

6" x 12" paper, white

glue

scissors

marker, black

crayons OR oil pastels

Product: A Mother Goose nursery rhyme diorama with a

colored background and figures added

Students will discuss grade level artist Grandma Moses

and learn that artists communicate through their art. They

are introduced to the word "perspective," and to the idea

that overlapping is a trick artists use to create an illusion

of space in a picture that is "flat."

GRANDMA MOSES: FEATHER WEATHER Materials:

construction paper 9”x12”in sky

colors: lt. blue, blue, dk. blue,

gray, lavender

tissue paper in assorted colors

white washable paint

6 paper plates (or other paint trays)

scissors

glue sticks

Product: Two feather-shaped landscapes featuring

student’s favorite type of weather.

Students will learn about the artist Grandma

Moses and focus in on the skies in her charming

landscapes. Considering their own experiences

with weather and their likes and dislikes, students

will create two sky collages in the shape of

feathers. Their feathers will combine in

collaborative wings that celebrate the “sky is the

limit” with their imagination.

GRANDMA MOSES: KID CARDS Materials:

construction paper 9” x 12” - red,

green, blue, yellow, purple,

orange, light blue

white copy paper

a variety of tissue paper

glue sticks

liquid glue ( 6-12

bottles)

scissors

glitter

Product: Collaged cards showcasing kids

participating in their favorite winter

activities.

While Grandma Moses’ artwork focuses on vibrant

communities and rural landscapes, she also shows many

children playing and frolicking in the snow. Students

look carefully at these children and brainstorm about

their activities. Then, they create a card(s) that depict

kids doing similar activities and are set in a simple winter

landscape. Students will practice cutting, drawing, and

gluing with these charming collaged cards.

GRANDMA MOSES: LEGO LANDSCAPES Materials:

glue

ink pads


6” x 9” construction paper, pastel

colors

crayons

Product: Layered landscape collage

Students compare and contrast visuals from the birdseye

view perspective of grade-level artist Grandma Moses

and a landscape photographer before they use LEGO to

stamp their own landscape prints. They use construction

paper crayons to draw and enhance their layered

landscape artwork.

First Grade


GRANDMA MOSES MURAL Materials:

watercolor paint

brushes

water cups

paper towels

scissors


butcher paper: blue and white-for

winter or blue and green-for

summer (for mural)

Product: A painted collage mural

Anna Mary Robertson, "Grandma Moses," was a folk

artist who began painting at the age of 70 her memories

of long ago. Students will make a group mural of their

activities in the winter or summer using watercolor

paints. Included is a small group discussion activity using

Grandma Moses’ paintings.

GRANDMA MOSES: WINDOW LANDSCAPE Materials:

construction paper 9” x 12” -

white, grey

white and green washable paint

crayons

glue sticks

Product: An out-the-window view landscape with a

collage curtain and painted details

Description: Inspired by Grandma Moses’ Hoosick

Valley (From the Window). Students learn the basics of

perspective in art. They draw a horizon line, learning that

the farther away something is the smaller it appears, and

that the closer it is, the larger it appears. Students create a

crayon landscape influenced by one of the four seasons

and surround it with a window frame and a painted “lace

curtain.”

HOW TO PAINT WITH WATERCOLOR Materials:

watercolor sets

paper, white

Product: Watercolor paintings, an experimental page, and

at least one student choice painting

Students will look at watercolor paintings by a variety of

artists. They then explore watercolor techniques,

properties, materials handling, and cleanup.

First Grade


ICE SCULPTORS & SCULPTURES: DIAMONDS OF THE NORTH (2 PARTS) Materials:

ice cubes

6” x 9” cardstock, white



assorted colors


scissors

glue

Production: A 3-D paper sculpture of slides and people

Students will learn about the career of ice sculpting.

They will look at the process from the collecting of the

ice to designing and carving of the sculptures. Students

will then create their own playground ice sculpture using

water crayons and ice.

INUKSHUK: GUIDE TO THE GAMES Materials:

scissors

glue

markers, black


sky blue, violet and magenta


sky blue, violet, magenta and

white

4-1/2” x 6” construction paper,

light brown, dark brown, brown

and pearl gray

Product: Two-dimensional paper constructed inukshuk,

an Inuit landmark, on layers of land using cutting and

tearing techniques.

Students will learn about the nine teams coming from the

circumpolar region to participate in the 2014 Arctic

Winter Games in Fairbanks. They will become familiar

with the Nunavut flag, which has an Inuit landmark

called an inukshuk. Students will use construction paper

and scissors to create their own inukshuk, one near and

one far.

I SEE A SONG Materials:

wallpaper paste

liquid washable paint: blue,

magenta and yellow

finger paint paper

construction paper scraps

scissors

Product: A rhythm color print with cut-shape patterns

Students will experience rhythm and movement

connecting visual art to music. Featured music is from a

popular animated film.

First Grade


JAPANESE POETRY BELLS Materials:

jingle bell, small (one per student)


sponges, small

washable paint, magenta and blue

pony beads

plastic straws (section cuts)

cotton yarn

Product: A hanging paper bell with long paper stamped

Haiku poetry strips and beaded decoration

The book Basho and the Fox is the basis for learning

about traditional Haiku poetry from Japan. Students

create a bell with stamped patterns in the same rhythm

using small sponges and washable paint.

JETLINER DESIGNER Materials:


assorted colors

11” x 17” copier paper, white

watercolor paint, blue

trays

paintbrushes (foam brushes work

best)

markers, black

water-based markers, assorted

colors

crayons, white

Product: Stenciled jets with bold designs and a crayon

watercolor-resist

Students will become jetliner designers similar to grade-

level artist Alexander Calder. Using a stencil, students

will trace a jet and use bright-colored markers to draw

bold lines and shapes. White crayons create a resist on

the jet and in the sky when blue watercolor paint is

applied.

First Grade


KANDINSKY KIDS Materials:

watercolor paints

glue

crayon, black


white


Product: A colorful watercolor painting

Students will listen to music and look at colorful abstract

paintings by Wassily Kandinsky. They will then portray

positive emotions and actions in their own abstract

watercolor artwork.

First Grade


LAYERS OF LAND Materials:

water cups

glue

brushes

2" x 12" tissue paper, assorted

colors

9" x 12" construction paper: white,

light blue, gray and pink

12" x 14" construction paper, dark

color (for frames)

watercolor paint sets

Product: A tissue paper collage of land layers

Students will examine how several artists have depicted

land showing many layers. They will then create a

layered landscape using tissue paper, collage techniques.

LET’S DRAW LIKE VINCENT VAN GOGH Materials:

watercolor crayons

construction paper, light colors

glue

Product: A picture similar to van Gogh

Using the book made by the Art Center (included), tell the

story of Vincent van Gogh. Students use painting crayons to

make a similar picture.

LINE DANCING Materials:

copier paper

sketch books (included)

pencils

drawing tools, assortment

(included)

18” length of wire (included)


black and a color

scissors

glue

yellow dots (included)

Product: A 12” x 18” artwork celebrating lines drawn,

cut, and created with bent wire

Line and shapes are studied as being a part of two

families, straight and curved. Students will learn how

artists can send messages by the kinds of lines and

shapes they use. Then students will make a collage

repeating lines with various drawing tools. A piece of

wire is added to create a “dancing line”.

LOOKING AT BUTTONS Materials:

oil pastels oil pastels, black

8” x 8” copier paper, white


assorted colors

Product: A brightly colored shape design drawn from looking

at buttons

Students will sort buttons using Venn diagrams then use the

buttons to design their artwork, which is colored using oil

pastels. They will learn to outline the shapes and draw details

using a black oil pastel before framing it on a colorful

construction paper.

First Grade


MAGIC LINES Materials:

oil pastels

watercolor paints and brushes



water containers

liquid glue, white

pencil

Product: An oil pastel drawing of lines bordered with

eight monoprints

Students will be inspired by Wassily Kandinsky artwork

before drawing lines using oil pastels on black

construction paper. By using watercolors, students will

create monoprints that show their magic lines.

MONDRIAN BOOGIE WOOGIE Materials:


yellow and blue


1/2" x 18” construction paper, gray

1/2" x 12” construction paper,

white

scissors

glue

Product: An abstract of city buildings created with cut

paper

Students will listen to the style of Boogie Woogie music

and look at the art influenced by this peppy swing beat.

Piet Mondrian’s painting, Broadway Boogie Woogie, will

inspire students to design their own city using primary

colors and their imagination!

MONDRIAN LINE DESIGN Materials:


black and white (12” x 18” precut)


assorted colors (for mounting)

6" x 18" construction paper strips,

assorted colors

scissors

glue

Product: A mounted cut-paper line design

Discuss different lines in your environment. Look at

Mondrian reproductions, and then cut lines to make a

line design.

MONDRIAN TREES Materials:

watercolor paint trays

brushes



color

water cup

paper towels

oil pastels, black

Product: A drawing/painting of a tree

Piet Mondrian, best known for his paintings using

straight black lines and primary colored shapes, often

studied trees. Students will draw and paint trees after

looking at Mondrian's early trees when he painted

realistically, until they eventually become very abstract.

First Grade


MOUSE COLORS Materials:

tempera or washable paint: red,

yellow and blue

18" x 24" paper, manila or white

butcher paper, white (for graph)

sponge brushes (included)

feet patterns (included)

pencil

Product: A class color graph

Students will study color through listening, reading,

singing, talking, and mixing paint to discover what colors

happen when they are mixed.

MY COMMUNITY SQUARE Materials:


primary or secondary colors

crayons

glue sticks

Product: A quilt-like layered paper square with stamped

patterns

Students will learn that they are a part of a big world.

They will use color squares to show their relationship to

home, family, school, and community. They will explore

lines and patterns on each layer of their squares with

crayons and stamps.

MY SHADOW & ME Materials:

6" x 9" drawing paper, manila (one

piece)


colored

crayons, skin-tone

oil pastels

scissors

glue

Product: An action figure with its shadow mounted on a

background

Students will look at two paintings by American artist

Winslow Homer, focusing on shadows. After discussing

shadows, students will draw a person in action with skin-

tone crayons and oil pastels and cut it out with a

construction paper double. Drawings are mounted on a

piece of large construction paper.

First Grade




oil pastels


black





ON MOTHER’S LAP Materials:

crayons

7” x 8” poster board or tagboard

2” x 7” poster board strip

1/2“ x 5” poster board strips

glue

3” x 5” or larger paper scraps,

assorted colors

Product: An interactive puppet with a chair

Students will share the book On Mother’s Lap by Anne

Herbert Scott. They will talk about who cares for them

and the things that they care about. They will create a

chair from a rectangle shaped paper, and make pocket

puppets with crayons and paper to tell their own story

about caring.

First Grade


PAINT BY NUMBERS Materials:


(one per student plus few extra)

5" x 12" construction paper, brown

6" x 12" construction paper, blue or

green

thin-tip marker, black

scissors

glue

crayons

Product: 2D drawing of a tractor on a farm-scape

background

Students will learn about the "farm to table" cycle of

agriculture. Beginning with the farm, students learn about

the importance of the tractor in a farmer's life. Students

create a farm field by printing tractor tracks and drawing

in their crops. Next, they learn how to draw a tractor by

looking at photographs of actual tractors. Shapes and

details play an important role in completing their

drawings.




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oil pastels

pencil







their own feelings.



papermaking.

PATTERNS IN NATURE: BOOLABOO Materials:

construction paper, primary and

secondary colors

glue

scissors

Product: A design of "imaginary creature tracks" in a

specific color scheme (primary, secondary, warm, or

cool)

Students will study the ideas of patterns and "motif" and

examine patterns in nature. They will make a pattern of

imaginary creature tracks in a specific color scheme.

PICASSO’S COLLAGES Materials:


black


assorted colors

wallpaper samples

charcoal sticks

Product: A mixed media collage in the style of Pablo

Picasso

Students will examine the collages created by Pablo

Picasso and then try a collage of their own in his style.

First Grade


PIPE CLEANER PEOPLE Materials:

pipe cleaners

crayons

pencil

copier paper, white

Product: Drawings of people developed from stick

figures, plus a small pipe cleaner "stick person" to model

for drawings

Students will study the human figure and build a small

pipe cleaner "stick person" to use as a model for drawing

people in action.

POPPIES FROM THE NEWS Materials:

straws

pipe cleaners

circle templates (included)

modeling clay

deckle scissors

4” x 4-1/2” cardstock

washable paint

newspapers

pencils

Product: 3D newspaper poppies standing in a clay vase

Students will create colorful flowers set in a clay vase

using straws, pipe cleaners, and painted recycled

newspaper.

PORTRAITS OF EACH OTHER Materials:


crayons

Product: A portrait of a classmate

Look at five different examples of portraits by various

artists. Proportions of facial features are emphasized, and

then students will color a head and shoulder portrait.

First Grade


RAINFOREST LAYERS Materials:



green


green

2” x 12” construction paper strips,

assorted colors (for tree shapes)

2” x 12” construction paper strips,

assorted colors and sizes (for leaf

shapes)

2” x 2” metallic accent paper

(optional)

glue

scissors

Product: A layered paper rainforest made with textured

leaf patterns

Students will create layered rainforests and textured leaf

patterns by using tearing and freehand cutting

techniques. Students will read and be inspired of the

book Jungle Song by Miriam Moss.

First Grade


SECRETS: SONJA KELLIHER-COMBS Materials:



yellow, orange, blue, green and

violet

4” x 4” cardstock, any color

glue sticks

scissors

6” thin gauge wire or string or

yarn

popsicle sticks or tongue

depressors

needlepoint mesh pieces

crayons, black

pencils

Q-tips™

crayons, warm and cool color sets

Product: An abstract texture rubbing in warm or cool

colors

Students will look at Sonja’s art and how she hides

secrets in her abstract art. They will make their own art,

hiding a secret inside by gluing objects inside papers.

They will use crayons to do a texture rubbing of their

secret art.

SKY, MOUNTAINS, AND ME Materials:


assorted colors

scissors

glue

tongue depressors

Product: Three "landscape shapes" and puppets made

with construction paper and tongue depressors

Students will create a story using "landscape shapes"

glued on tongue depressors as puppets.

SOLAR STARS Materials:

markers: red, orange, yellow, green,

blue, and violet

scissors

pencils


orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,

and violet

masking tape

yarn

fun stickers, variety

shipping labels or clear book covering

film

Product: A hanging string of suns and stars

Students learn that our sun is a star and that sunlight is

made up of the colors of the rainbow. After leaning

information from a non-fiction book on the sun, they

create a string of suns and stars using shipping labels,

stickers, and construction paper.

First Grade


SONYA KELLIHER-COMBS’ KUSPUKS Materials:

10” x 12” railroad board


9” x 12” construction paper, warm

and cool colors

cellophane, warm and cool colors

bleeding art tissue, warm and cool

colors

liquid glue

paint brushes

containers (for diluted glue)

Product: A 2D mixed-media collage

Students will study Alaska Native artist Sonya Kelliher-

Combs’ two-dimensional mixed-media art. They will

create a layered collage using a combination of

overlapping materials such as: art tissue, liquid glue,

cellophane, and printed-paper. The focal point will be a

colorful parka cover most often known as a kuspuk.

SONYA’S SHAPES (3 LESSONS) Materials:

Lesson 1 – Circle/ “Pore”:

Construction paper:

o 4” x 4”, 3” x 3”, & 2” x 2”

in red, yellow, & orange

o 9” x 12” in white & grey

7.5” x 10.5” exam table paper*

Oil pastels: blue, green, & violet

Black markers (thick & thin if

possible)

Glue sticks

Scissors

Lesson 2 – Oblong/”Secret”:

Construction paper:

o 6” x 9” and 2.25” x 3” black

o 5.5” x 8.5” and 4.5” x 6”

red, yellow, blue, orange,

green, & violet

Glue sticks

Scissors

Black markers (chisel-point

markers are the best)

Lesson 3 – Spiral/ “Eddy”

Construction paper:

o 6” x 12” and 3” x 12” red,

yellow, & blue

o 4.5” x 4.5” black

Xerox of spiral cutting guide

Black markers

Scissors

Glue sticks * Note: Your school nurse should have many rolls of exam table

paper. It comes in 21” white/transparent rolls. Tracing paper in

7.5” x 10.5”-ish size would be a good substitute.

Products: Lesson 1 – Artwork with various circles.

Lesson 2 – Collage of three-dimensional circles.

Lesson 3 – Collage with 2D and 3D spirals.

Lesson 1 – Circle/”Pore”

Students will be introduced to the work of artist Sonya

Kelliher-Combs, a nationally recognized

painter and sculptor from Bethel, Alaska.

Students will analyze the components of

Kelliher-Combs’ work. They will start

this three-part series of lessons by

working in layers (just like Sonya), and

experimenting with multiple ways one can create circles

with pastels, markers, and scissors.

Lesson 2 – Oblong/”Secret”

In lesson 2, students continue to engage with the

inspiring work of Sonya Kelliher-Combs. The primary

focus will be on oblongs, shapes that

Kelliher-Combs refers to as “secrets.”

Students will work with scissors,

markers, and pastels to cut, repeat drawn

shapes, and grow oblongs/”secrets.”

Completed work results in a layered collage with a three-

dimensional element.

Lesson 3 – Spiral/”Eddy”

In this lesson, students learn the difference

between primary and secondary colors.

They also learn multiple ways to create 2D

and 3D spirals, and how to collage with

positive shapes and negative space.

First Grade


STACKING STILL LIFE Materials:

8" X 18" construction paper, white

(two per student)

pencil


crayons: yellow, green

and black

Product: A drawing of a stacked still life using markers

and crayons

Students will view two different still life paintings by the

artist Piet Mondrian. They will recognize that the artist

arranged everyday objects to create his composition and

saw it many different ways. Students practice arranging

paper cups, sponges, and paper rings, both 3D and 2D, as

they discover the ways a still life helps artists to see and

create an interesting composition for their work.

STILL LIFE: DELICIOUS FRUIT (2 PARTS) Materials:




Payons™

scissors

glue

construction paper, brown (for

bowl shape)

water cups

Product: A colorful mixed media fruit still life

Students will study the time-honored theme of still life in

art and create a fruit still life of their own using prepared

papers colored with Payons™.

SWIMMER: A MIGRATING SALMON Materials:

Super Dough™: red, blue and

yellow


glue

scissors

construction paper: small amounts

of red, blue and yellow

pony bead

Product: A relief sculpture (Super Dough™) of a salmon

with paper fins and a bead eye surrounded by a symbol

story written in oil pastel

Students will look at the book Swimmer by Shelly Gill,

which tells about a Yup’ik fish camp. They will learn the

life cycle of salmon as told by Katya with her story knife.

Students will make a salmon out of Super Dough™,

learn about primary colors, and use symbols to tell the

salmon story.

First Grade


TOYS & US: FIGURE TOYS Materials:


assorted colors

2” piece of masking tape (per

student)

glue

scissors

Product: Packaging and a name for a toy

Students will learn about the history of some of the most

popular toy figures, and look at how packaging

influences those who buy toy products.

TRACTOR TRACKS Materials:


(one per student plus few extra)

5" x 12 construction paper, brown

6' x 12" construction paper, blue or

green


scissors

glue

crayons

Product: 2D drawing of a tractor on a farm scape

background

Students learn about the "farm to table" cycle of

agriculture. Beginning with the farm, students learn

about the importance of the tractor in a farmer's life.

Students create a farm field by printing tractor tracks and

drawing in their crops. Next, they learn how to draw a

tractor by looking at photographs of actual tractors.

Shapes and details play an important role in completing

their drawings.

VEGGIES: MATISSE GOES TO MEXICO (2 PARTS) Materials:

tempera cakes

prepared papers (pre-painted)

construction paper

scissors

glue

Mexican papier-mâché veggies

(included)

Product: A cut-paper veggie art in the style of Matisse

using painted and patterned paper

Students will explore a cut-paper artwork by Henri

Matisse called Vegetables. They will then look at

colorful vegetables made in Mexico.

First Grade


WEATHER LINES Materials:

6" x 18" construction paper: light

blue, gray, pink, dark blue, purple,

red and orange

9" x 12" construction paper: light

blue, gray, pink, dark blue, purple,

red and orange



tempera cakes, white

crayon, white

paint brush

water cup

liquid glue

tissue paper, assorted colors

paper towels

Product: A tissue paper painted collage

Several artist reproductions of different kinds of weather

and cloud formations are studied. Students will make a

weather-filled sky using line. They will add color by

brushing water over the tissue paper clouds.

WEAVE N’ PRINT Materials:

tempera paint, white

construction paper, colored

glue

scissors

Plasticine™ clay (oil-based)

Product: Stamped prints on woven colored construction

paper

Students will explore two art processes, paper weaving

and printmaking, and combine the two in a delightful

mixed media project. The printmaking "stamp" is made

from Plasticine™ (oil-based) clay.

WIND & WINGS Materials:

6” x 18” paper, white

watercolor paints

pipe cleaners or wire

tissue paper

scissors

hole punch

Product: A paper flying shape with paint, wire, and tissue

paper

Students will learn about Orville and Wilbur Wright, the

inventors of the airplane. Next, students will go on a

journey with the wind using the book Gilberto and the

Wind.

First Grade


WINTER COLOR LANDSCAPES Materials:

large paper, white

marker, black

tempera cakes: yellow, blue and

magenta

water cups

brushes

scissors

glue

Product: A winter landscape with a painted sky and cut

trees

Students will talk about colors they have seen in the

winter sky, and look at how Fairbanks artist Dan Kennedy

uses watercolor wash to create the colorful skies in his

paintings. To create their own landscape, students will

draw horizon lines in marker, use paint to "wash" the sky,

and then draw trees, cut them out, and glue them onto the

painting.

WIRE, BEADS, & ME WITH KELLIHER-COMBS Materials:


1-1/2” x 4” railroad board, various

colors

Product: A 3D wire sculpture

After studying Inupiat/Athabascan visual and jewelry

artist Sonya Kelliher-Combs, students will twist a wire

into a 3D sculpture. Inspired by Sonya’s earring designs,

they will balance round stickers, shiny beads, and

colorful paper to create a symmetrical form and then jot

down a short description of it.

First Grade


YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND IN ME Materials:



3” x 4” paper, assorted skin-tones

watercolors

scissors

glue


Product: A self-portrait using watercolors and black

markers. A “speech bubble” is added with a positive

comment to a friend.

Students will practice learning how to be a good friend

using puppets from the movie Toy Story. Role-playing

about “tolerance in the toy box” will help them learn to

accept new friends. They will use watercolors to paint a

self-portrait and use symbols and shapes to show their

special attributes.



Blue, bold-face font indicates a new kit. Abstract Torn Paper Animals

African Masks

Anna's Athabascan Summer: Perspective

Artist Trading Cards

Athabascan Animal Legends

Benny Benson & Your Personal Flag

Birch Leaves Flutter and Fall

Birthday of My Dreams

Butterflies & Bugs: Symmetry in Nature

Celebrations

Chimpanzees & Dr. Jane Goodall

Clay Character Stories

Collaborative “Peace”

Contemporary Cats

Copernicus: So Heliocentric

Crayon Rubbing Prints

Cut-Shape Pictures (revised)

Denise Wallace: Sharing Traditions

Dinosaur Texture

Dufy, Raoul: Watercolors

Fantastic Fish Collage

Finding Forms

Groups of Animals

Head Lines

Health Nuts

Henri Rousseau: Alaskan Dino-Rainforest

Hip-Hip-Array-Ray

Insect Architects

Keeping Warm with Color

Landscape Impressions

Lines, Leaves & Color

Maria’s Pueblo Portrait

Martinez Avanyu Serpent

Martinez Feather Design

Martinez, Maria: Shards of Clay

Masks & Symmetry

Mason, Charles: Photographer/Artist

Matisse: Jazz

Matisse Pocketbook

Matisse Windows

Math-terpieces

Mehner: Making Our Way

Melody Makers

Mobiles: Our Solar System in Balance

Murals: Community Art

MYtisse’s Encouraging Words

Noggin Nesters

Oil Pastel Fruit Still Life

On the Surface: Water Art (2 Parts)

Paper, Wire & Crayon Collage

Parade Banners (2 Parts)

People Doing Things

Polar Bears on Thin Ice

Postcards from Alaska

Principles of Art (unit)

Printmaking Editions (2 Parts)

Queen of the Nile: Egyptian

Quilts: Capture the Feeling

Raggedy Ann Meets Matisse (2 Parts)

Scribble Drawing

Shape Stations (2 Parts) (revised)

Shaveroonies from Outer Space

Skiers: Colors of the Arctic Winter Games

Sky Things

Stella's Painted Sculptures (2 Parts)

Still Life Drawing (2 Parts)

Story Sculpture

Sun Strokes

Symbols & Self

Textile Designer: Maria’s Colorful Pillow

Texture Town: Fairbanks from Above

Textured Landscapes with Grant Wood

Totem Tales

Trees & Beyond

Wood, Grant: Landscapes

Wri-ting with Rhy-th


Nebulas: Birth of a Star (K-3) Alaska Native Art: Birds:


Cartooning in Stages (4-6) Papermaking (K-6) - Aleut (4)

Please contact the Art Center for

availability



Flowers and Radial Design (3-6) Van Gogh (2-6)



Second Grade


ABSTRACT TORN PAPER ANIMALS Materials:

• construction paper, assorted colors

• glue

Product: A torn animal picture

Compare realistic and abstract animals. Use one set of

animals per student, sort accordingly, then tear and

arrange an animal in a setting.

AFRICAN MASKS Materials:

• 9" x 12" construction paper, black

and brown

• 6" x 6" construction paper, black

and brown

• glue

• printmaking ink, black

• copier paper, tan

• crayons, white

• brayer

Product: A small construction paper African mask and a

monoprint of that same mask displayed together

Students will study African masks from Nigeria and the

Congo, noticing the symmetry that appears in the

majority of the designs. Using paper cutting and

printmaking techniques, they will create a small mask

and a monoprint of that mask.

ANNA’S ATHABASCAN SUMMER: PERSPECTIVE Materials:



watercolor crayons or watercolor

paint

scissors

glue stick

pencils

Product: A painted paper collage

This kit is based on Fairbanksan Charles Ragins’

illustrations in the book Anna's Athabascan Summer.

Students will learn to use the basic concepts of

perspective to illustrate a summer scene featuring an

animal and themselves.

ARTIST TRADING CARDS Materials:

colored pencils

scissors

small envelopes or rubber bands

(to hold sets of cards)

Product: A set of 27 Artist Trading Cards with learning

activities

Students will review the different artists they have

studied in school so far by playing games with Artist

Trading Cards. They will design several of their own

cards to complete a small set for themselves or to trade.

ATHABASCAN ANIMAL LEGENDS Materials:


and white

glue

crayons

pencil

Product: A collage with a black silhouette of an animal

featured in a child’s legend

Students will study the book The Girl Who Swam with

the Fishes, an Athabascan legend about a girl who

became a fish. They will create art based on their own

legend wherein they also become an animal.

Second Grade


BENNY BENSON & YOUR PERSONAL FLAG Materials:







glue stick

scissors

Product: A paper flag

Students will learn about Benny Benson and the history

of the Alaska flag. After looking at many examples,

students will create their own personal flag.

BIRCH LEAVES FLUTTER & FALL Materials:


and black


green(s)

pencil (to write name only)

chalk pastels: green, brown, red,

yellow and orange

paint brushes, large

glue and water solution (50%-

50%)

glue cups, small (one per two

students)

scissors

dry erase markers, chisel-point,

black

glue sticks

Product: colorful paper and chalk

Students will learn about how fading light, less rain and

cooler weather in autumn affects the color of Alaska

birch leaves. Students will create a paper collage of a

birch tree with beautiful leaves fluttering down against

the white background of their tree’s trunk.

BIRTHDAY OF MY DREAMS Materials:

construction paper, black and white

colored pencils

fine-tip marker, black

glue

scissors

Product: A birthday party invitation practicing colored

pencil design techniques

Students will discuss the tradition of celebrating birthdays

in our society and how birthday traditions range from the

simple to elaborate all over the world.

BUTTERFLIES & BUGS: SYMMETRY IN NATURE Materials:


assorted colors

glue

scissors

Product: A symmetrical butterfly or bug made from

construction paper

Students will examine examples of symmetry in nature

by studying photos of butterflies and bugs. Then they

will design their own butterfly or bug being careful to

keep it symmetrical in size, shape, and color.

Second Grade


CELEBRATIONS Materials:


colored


white glue

pencil

Payons™

Product: A watercolor painting of a celebration

Students will look at the book I’m In Charge of

Celebrations, by Byrd Baylor, in which a young girl

celebrates many happenings in nature. They then will use

Payons™, a painting crayon, to create their own

celebration of a pleasant memory.

CHIMPANZEES & DR. JANE GOODALL Materials:

oil pastels


copier paper scraps, white (for

practice)

pencil

Product: An oil pastel drawing of a chimpanzee in its

habitat

Students will examine the work of Jane Goodall, a

naturalist who studied monkeys and chimpanzees in their

habitat. They will learn about migration and create their

own oil pastel of chimpanzees in habitats.

CLAY CHARACTER STORIES Materials:

Super Dough™

4" x 6" index cards, white

4-1/2" x 6" construction paper,

colored

glue

paper clips

Product: A 3-D picture story

Students are introduced to basic clay techniques through

the adventures of Teeny Tiny Clay Ball. They will then

create their own clay character in a multimedia picture

story.

COLLABORATIVE “PEACE” Materials:

mural paper, white

chisel-tip markers, assorted colors

glue

Product: A peace mural

Students will think about what wishes they might have

for the world. They will write their “wishes for a more

tolerant world” with markers. They will each design one

section of the Peace mural and join them all together to

make a mural with a message of peace.

CONTEMPORARY CATS Materials:


and sizes


metallic paper pieces, small

oil pastels

scissors

glue

Product: A colorful patterned cat

Students will look at cat photos and paintings by famous

artists. They will study the cats of Laurel Burch, a

contemporary artist, before creating a colorful and

patterned cat of their own. They will choose a point of

view (front, side, or 3/4), then cut out and decorate a cat.

Second Grade


COPERNICUS: SO HELIOCENTRIC! Materials:


black and white

glue, white

glue stick

paint brushes, large (1” if possible)

oil pastels; blue, green, red, brown,

grey and yellow

scissors

cups, small for paint

4” x 10” tissue paper; orange, red

and yellow

temper paint, liquid, yellow (white

possible substitute)

Product: Interactive three-dimensional model of the inner

solar system

Students will be introduced to grade-level scientist,

Copernicus, as well as a brief history of solar models.

Students will develop and create an interactive

heliocentric model of terrestrial planets between Earth

and the Sun. This lesson offers students the opportunity

to blend pastels, collage tissue paper and make design

decisions. Students learn about an important scientific

advance through a visual art experience.

CRAYON RUBBING PRINTS Materials:

Dura Blocks™: red, yellow, blue,

and multicolored


assorted colors

glue

Product: A crayon-rubbing print with a 3-D shape

attached

Students will take a glimpse at how printmaking is used

in day-to-day living. They will cut shapes and make

repeated rubbings applying the principles of design in

their “rubbed print.”

CUT-SHAPE PICTURES Materials:

9” x 12” white construction paper

with a frame of 12” x 15” black

construction paper

Glue stick

Scissors

Primary and secondary color

construction paper in a variety of

squares and rectangles of many

different sizes

Product: Students create an imaginary scene done as a

collage using basic geometric/plane shapes in primary

and secondary colors.

Students will learn how to cut basic geometric/plane

shapes from squares and rectangles of various sizes in

primary and secondary colors only. They will practice

combining their shapes to create more complex shapes,

as well as how a whole geometric shape can be

partitioned into new fractional shapes. An emphasis will

be placed on working large, as well as cutting and

arranging all picture shapes before gluing anything

down. Students will practice “drawing with their

scissors.”

Second Grade


DENISE WALLACE: SHARING TRADITIONS (3 LESSONS) Materials:

Lesson 1 (Patterns)

construction paper

black Sharpie

markers, fine point

glue

assorted paperless crayons, earth tone

(included)

Lesson 2 (Symbols)

construction paper

tan graph paper (sub-tan

construction paper)

metallic foil paper

glue

scissors

assorted paperless crayons, earth tone

(included)

Lesson 3 (Transformation)

construction paper

tan graph paper (sub-tan construction

paper)

assorted Astrobrights/Fireworks color

copy paper

fine tip black markers

silver Sharpie markers,

fine point

glue

scissors

Product:

Pattern exploration

Amulet design in the historic Native, and Denise Wallace

style of jewelry

Transformational “dancer” in the historic Native, and

Denise Wallace style of jewelry

Students will learn about the traditions of Denise

Wallace’s Alutiiq/Sugpiaq people, and how Denise

Wallace incorporates these images and traditions in her

jewelry designs.

Lesson 1: Students will be introduced to the fossil ivory

that Wallace uses in her jewelry, and how to simulate that

look on paper. Students will explore what makes up a

pattern as they design 4-6 different patterns of their own.


Native Alaskan history and how amulets were

used. They will design their own amulets in the

Denise Wallace style using symmetrical paper

cutting and continuing with pattern practice.


additional Native Alaskan traditions of

storytelling with a 3-D paper cutting/folding,

masked dancer.

DINOSAUR TEXTURE Materials:


Dura-Blocks™

crayons


assorted dark colors

marker, black

glue and scissors

Product: A mixed media dinosaur collage

Students will become paleontologists, exploring the world

of dinosaur shapes and creating imaginative hides from

various rubbing texture techniques.

Second Grade




water cups

brushes











DUFY, RAOUL: WATERCOLORS Materials:


crayons or plastic crayons

watercolor sets

brushes

water cups

Product: A brightly colored painting in the style of

French artist Raoul Dufy

Students will examine the works of French artist Raoul

Dufy, and imitate his style of painting over light line

drawings (crayon) with color diffusions (watercolors).

Second Grade


FANTASTIC FISH COLLAGE Materials:

6" x 18" or 9" x 12" construction

paper, white

6" x 9" Astrobright® or

construction paper


black

tempera cakes, assorted colors

(four sets)

sponges, small (for each color)

scissors

glue

Product: A fish collage

Fish drawn by scientific illustrators and Alaskan artist

Ray Troll will be studied, emphasizing shape and pattern.

Students will then produce a collage using a variety of

media.

FINDING FORMS Materials:

Xeroxed worksheets

thick and thin markers, black

markers, assorted

colors

glue sticks

scissors

pencil


Product: Quartered and framed marker drawing

Students will practice tracing and drawing geometric

forms. They will learn to "look" like artists and find

geometric forms within classroom objects. They'll draw

hidden forms and identify negative space. Students will

carefully cut their work apart and then take time to

arrange and rearrange their work until they develop a

pleasing composition.

GROUPS OF ANIMALS Materials:

plastic sheets, clear

3" x 5" index cards

tissue paper

glue stick (not white glue)

Product: A group of animals to hang on a window

Students will discuss the list of collective nouns

(included) to describe groups of animals. They will

design an animal, mount them on plastic, make a group

of animals, and title the art.

Second Grade


HEAD LINES Materials:

markers

oil pastels

pipe cleaners

recycled newspaper

Product: Students will create a self-portrait

Students will create a self-portrait that incorporates

recycled materials and highlights the five senses.

HEALTH NUTS Materials:

12” x 18” construction paper, tan and

brown

4-1/2” x 4-1/2” construction paper, tan

and brown

6” x 6” construction paper, tan and

brown

9” x 9” construction paper: red, orange,

yellow, blue, green, violet, white, black

and pink



4-1/2” x 6” construction paper, white

2” x 4-1/2” construction paper, black

glue sticks

scissors

pencils

Sharpie™ markers, black

Product: A 3-D wall hanging

Students will identify the many ways they are healthy

through taking The BIG Quiz. The quiz teaches students

that they already eat good foods and are already involved

in healthy exercise. (The BIG Quiz is an orally delivered

quiz that is fun and all students’ answers are correct.)

Students will go on to create a fun Health Nut character

(in the form of a peanut or cashew) that “shouts” the

name of a healthy food or healthy exercise. Students will

use stencils, paper folding techniques, basic line

contouring and creative cutting and designing. When

displayed, these fun wall hangings will promote good

health to the whole school.

HENRI ROUSSEAU: ALASKAN DINO-RAINFOREST Materials :

One per student:

8” x 10” light or medium blue

framed with 9” x 12” dark or black

construction paper

6” x 9” gray construction paper

4” x 8” construction paper, light or

medium green


green

Glue stick

Scissors

Pencil

Crayons (to share)

Product: Students will create a 3-D dinosaur rainforest

that demonstrates foreground, midground, and

background using their imagination as Rousseau did.

Artist Henri Rousseau had a passion for tropical

rainforests. He did research to learn as much as he could

about these regions of the world and then used his

imagination to paint many famous pictures. Alaska is

home to one of the largest

temperate rainforests that stretches

along the southeast coast. Millions

of years ago, during the Cretaceous

period, dinosaurs once roamed

Alaska’s temperate rainforests.

Second Grade


HIP-HIP-ARRAY-RAY Materials:


or dark brown

1" x 1" construction paper, tan or

medium brown

9" x 12" construction paper, tan or

medium brown

oil pastels: white, red, yellow,

blue, violet, green and orange

scissors

glue stick

pencil

Product: 3D model of a ray

Students will be introduced to the concept of

multiplication through working with a simple array

(objects organized into columns and row). The lesson

format allows for each student to work on a different

array. They will go on to create a 3D spotted eagle ray

constructed from paper and directly

transfer their factors and product to

their sculpture through pattering in

oil pastel in three possible color

palettes. Students will mount their

work on paper that they will fold to

simulate sand ridges on the ocean floor.

INSECT ARCHITECTS Materials:


blue and white


black


white, medium blue and dark blue

6” x 9” construction paper, violet

glue sticks

scissors

Product: Rubbing that looks like an architectural

blueprint

After studying the whimsical story and illustrations of

Roberto the Insect Architect by Nina Laden, students will

design an insect’s house using symmetry, freehand

cutting, and rubbing techniques to create an imaginative

piece of art that has similar visual qualities to

architectural blueprints.

Second Grade


KEEPING WARM WITH COLOR Materials:

smorgasbord of anything that is

warm-colored (red, yellow, orange)

including paint, crayons, markers,

oil pastels, yarn, paper, found

objects, clay, string, crepe paper,

tissue paper, etc.

glue

scissors

hole punch

pencils

Product: A mixed media creation using only warm colors

Students will learn about how different animals survive

winter conditions, focusing on hibernation. They will talk

about the importance of keeping warm and then look at

how artists use color to show warmth. They will discuss

the warm and cool colors, and then make their own

inventive design using only warm colors.

LANDSCAPE IMPRESSIONS Materials:


white

markers, black

tempera paints

Product: An impressionistic landscape

Students will look at a number of American

Impressionism paintings including Hillside Pastures by

Willard Metcalf, examining in particular the lines of

composition and use of light. They will then create an

impressionistic landscape with tempera paint.

LINES, LEAVES, & COLOR Materials:



orange, green and violet

glue sticks

scissors

thin-tip markers, black crayons

Product: A detailed marker and crayon drawing

Students will use a “Zoomer-inner” (circular viewfinder) to

help them focus in on leaves. They will create an interesting

composition and look at the outlines, veins and colors of

leaves. After looking and focusing, students will carefully

draw in pencil what they see. Students will go on to draw over

their lines with thin-tip markers. Using crayons, students will

experiment with blended colors to accurately shade their

leaves.

Second Grade


MARIA’S PUEBLO PORTRAIT Materials:

Scissors

Glue stick

Pencil

Construction paper:

o 9”x12” tan (pueblo)

o 3”x12” brown (ladder)

o 2”x14” red, orange, yellow

(shawl) Students choose 1

o 3”x3” black (pottery) 2 per

student

Product: A paper collage of Maria Martinez outside her

Pueblo

Students will explore the multiple meanings of the word

“pueblo,” including the architectural

features of a pueblo-style building.

Although Maria’s pottery is all black,

students will realize she is a very colorful

artist when they look at the parts of a

traditional Pueblo woman’s regalia.

MARTINEZ AVANYU SERPENT Materials:

scissors

glue stick

pencil

masking tape, 2” per student

7”x9” railroad board background,

any neutral color

tabloid size yellow printer paper*

*12”x18” construction paper,

warm colors, may be substituted if

unavailable

scraps of construction paper,

assorted colors for eyes (about

1”x2”)

pipe cleaners

Product: Movable paper Avanyu serpent, stamped with

Pueblo symbols

The Avanyu serpent is a mythical Pueblo creature.

Students will discover the Avanyu is a reoccurring

design motif in Maria Martinez’s pottery.

MARTINEZ FEATHER DESIGN Materials:

3 1/2” x 11” Construction paper:

black and assorted colors

3” x 10” metallic

foil paper and/or

aluminum foil

oil pastels

glue sticks

scissors

Product: Students will make two feathers and collaborate

with classmates to make a class set of raven wings.

Students will play “I Spy” finding colors, shapes, and

lines on real iridescent feathers, and learn about bird

feathers. Maria Martinez’s pottery will be examined as

students find different shapes and line designs - even

hidden feathers!

Second Grade


MARTINEZ, MARIA: SHARDS OF CLAY Materials:


brown and black

glue

scissors

pencil

marker, brown

Product: A 2-D representation of a clay pot with a shard

cut away

Students will review life of Maria Martinez, a Pueblo

potter, and make a two-dimensional representation of

pottery including a “shard.”

MASKS & SYMMETRY Materials:



assorted colors

scissors

glue

Product: A mask that is symmetrical in both cut-shape and

oil pastel design markings

Students will examine pictures of masks, including some

African and Native American Indian masks. After

discerning which are symmetrical in design, they will

make their own masks trying to keep them symmetrical as

well.

MASON, CHARLES: PHOTOGRAPHER/ARTIST Materials:

12" X 18" construction paper,

black and white

scissors

glue

pencil

crayon, black

charcoal (included)

Product: A photo/charcoal/crayon collage with a chuckle in the

subject matter

Students will study photographs by Fairbanks photographer

Charles Mason looking for chuckles, as Mason calls them, in

the photos. These chuckles are created by points of view,

juxtaposition, or the irony of the objects in the photos. Students

will choose three images (an assortment is included) and

combine and blend them in a photo collage, filling in the gaps

by using charcoal to create various gray tones.

MATH-TERPIECES Materials:

6” X 18” construction paper,

assorted colors

4” x 6” copier paper

markers, black

glue stick

scissors

Product: A torn paper and drawn habitat collage

Students will be introduced the concept of an artist’s

masterpiece through the book by Greg Tang,

Math-terpieces. Using each of the masterpieces, students

will collaborate and solve addition problems using the

images from the artwork. Each student will then create

their own work of art inspired by one of five habitats.

Students will use torn paper to create the backgrounds,

and then include drawn animals or objects in their

habitats that can be counted. VOILA! A Math-terpiece!

MATISSE: JAZZ Materials:


watercolor paints

brushes

water cups

scissors

glue

Product: A collage of colorful shapes

Henri Matisse, a French artist, started as an oil painter.

Due to poor health, he eventually began making cut-out,

painted, paper collages. Students will paint some paper

and include it in their colorful collage of a memory.

Second Grade


MATISSE POCKETBOOK Materials:

Xerox™ copies of student

handouts

6” or 12” rulers, class set


red, yellow, blue, orange, green,

violet, black, white

glue stick

scissors

Product: A book featuring pockets on the inside

Students use instructions (as nonfiction text) to help them

create a simple, foldable book featuring pockets. They

go on to play bingo using Matisse shapes and nonfiction

text features displayed in ScholasticART. Students

decorate their books in Matisse-like shapes, and then

house all associated handouts in the pockets of their new

book.

MATISSE WINDOWS Materials:


blue


1/2” x 6” construction, black



glue stick

scissors

Product: A 2-D paper collage

Students will look at examples of Matisse’s designs for

stained glass, his recognizable organic shapes, and

photographs of the artist working from his bed toward

the end of his career. They will use drawing tools

attached to long sticks and scissors to create shapes for

their own stained glass design.

MEHNER: MAKING OUR WAY Materials:


red, yellow, blue


orange, violet, green

scissors

glue

chalk pastels

tissues

Xerox™ copies of photos and

maps (master included in kit)

Product: A two-dimensional photographic collage

Students will be introduced to photographic collage work

created by contemporary Alaska Native artist Da-ka-xeen

Mehner, where he “explores” traditional right-of-ways.

Students will consider their routes to school and then go on to

select images of school buses, bikes, and students walking to

school. They’ll crop their images with a viewfinder to create

two dynamic compositions, and then arrange them using

Mehner’s collage format. Using chalk pastels in

complementary colors, student will tint their black and white

images and then frame collages with additional

complementary colors. Students will complete their pieces by

adding a small map of the local area to their collages, and then

draw a symbolic line that represents their routes to school.

MELODY MAKERS Materials:

oil pastels

glue sticks

scissors pencil


assorted colors

Product: A visual presentation of a piece of music with a

repeating melody

Students will review the different artists they have

studied in school so far by playing games with Artist

Trading Cards. They will design several of their own

cards to complete a small set to keep or trade.

Second Grade


MOBILES: OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IN BALANCE Materials:

#1 size paper clips, 5 boxes of 100

12” pipe cleaners: 200 (2 packs of

100)

8” plastic jumbo drinking straws:

200 (1/2 box of 400 from A&W

Wholesale)

2’ piece of string per student

Glue-all® or white glue, 14 (one

between two)

glue stick, one each

scissors

paper strips/scraps, variety of

colors (just tons!)

Product: Mobile featuring three-dimensional forms that

relate to planets in our solar system

Students will create a mobile sculpture. After developing

their mobile’s structure, students read non-fiction

descriptions of planets in our solar system, and then

create three-dimensional forms from paper that relate to

their understanding of the planets’ attributes. They

attach their planetary forms to their mobile in their solar

order, while simultaneously making constant adjustments

to the many fulcrum points to help their sculpture

balance and move.

MODIGLIANI ART APPRECIATION This appreciation kit has historical information about

Modigliani’s life, his style, and influences. There are

center activities and suggestions for in-class projects.

MT. MCKINLEY LANDSCAPES Materials:

drawing paper

construction paper

pastels: orange, blue and white

pencils

glue sticks

Product: A pastel landscape of Mt. McKinley

Students will learn the basics of drawing and color

mixing as they create a pastel landscape of Mt.

McKinley.

MURALS: COMMUNITY ART Materials:

colored pencils or markers or

crayons


colored

Product: A design for an outside mural

Students will examine murals from around the world and

design their own mural for the outside of a building.

MYTISSE’S ENCOURAGING WORDS Materials:

4-1/2” x 6” construction paper, white

4” x 5-1/2” construction paper, black

4-1/2” x 12” construction paper: red,

yellow, blue, green, orange and violet

5-1/2” x 8-1/2” copier paper

glue sticks

pencils

transparency markers, water-based

scissors

pencils

Product: A card

Students will develop a mono-print based on Henry

Matisse’s paper cut-outs using Plexiglas® printing plates

and water-based markers. They will go on to create a

card featuring their print and write encouraging words.

All cards will be delivered to patients at local hospitals.

Second Grade




oil pastels


black





NOGGIN NESTERS Materials:


yellow, blue, orange, green, and

violet

4-1/2" x 12" construction paper:

red, yellow, blue, orange, green and

violet



violet



violet



violet


(for eyes)

poster board, 1" x 28" strips (or two

1" x 18" construction paper strips

glued end-to-end will work)

glue sticks

scissors

Product: 3D paper chicken that can be worn on head

Students learn about basic chicken anatomy. They go on

to create chicken anatomy from cut paper in primary

colors (red, yellow, and blue), and secondary colors

(orange, green, and violet). Students assemble their own

wearable (on the "noggin") 3D chicken. Extend the

lesson by doing a guided group reading of "10 Things

You Should Know Ab out Raising Backyard Chickens."

Second Grade


OIL PASTEL FRUIT STILL LIFE Materials:


colored

oil pastels

scissors

glue

Product: A realistic fruit still life

Students will examine Cezanne’s fruit still life and learn

oil pastel techniques to create realistic still life of their

own.

ON THE SURFACE: WATER ART (2 PARTS) Materials:


blue and purple

white glue

scissors

Product: An iridescent color field on collaged paper

Students will look at how artists interpret water in paintings

and photography. They will look at artwork from the Rose

Berry Gallery, focusing on the photography of Michael Kelly.

Students will create their own waterscapes by capturing color

from the water’s surface.

Second Grade





best)

oil pastels

pencil







their own feelings.



papermaking.

PAPER, WIRE, & CRAYON COLLAGE Materials:

plastic coated wire, small gauge

(communications wire)


colored

glue

scissors

Dura-Blocks™ or crayons

Product: A mixed media collage with 3D aspects

In this lesson, students will use telephone wire in a

collage with paper and crayons. Contour lines and

contrasting colors are studied in the process.

PARADE BANNERS (2 PARTS) Materials:


white

glue

liquid tempera paint, assorted

colors

computer (on which to type, print

and glue a message on a banner)

Product: A large banner with a colorful background and

message

Students will look at photos of parade banners and see

the variety of ways to show one's message. Using liquid

tempera, students will create a colorful background

behind a message they will print out on the computer,

using a large and bold font for the words. (This can be

done by hand if the computer is unavailable.)

PEOPLE DOING THINGS Materials:


assorted colors


assorted colors

paper scrap box, colored

white glue

scissors

Product: A cut-paper collage of a human figure in action,

dressed according to the activity shown

Students will look at three paintings in which artists’

depicted people in action then they will cut the parts of a

body and put them together.

Second Grade


POLAR BEARS ON THIN ICE Materials:


white


white


white


or gray

8” x 11” construction paper: pink,

blue and black

printing ink

glue stick

scissors

Product: A 2D print

Students learn the International Polar Year occurs every

twenty-five years and Fairbanks had the honor of hosting

the IPY in 2008. This lesson teaches about the scientific

evaluations of the health of Arctic regions, in particular,

the warming of our planet and its effect on polar bears.

After discussion, students will develop and create a polar

bear printing plate and make a printout of their bear.

POSTCARDS FROM ALASKA Materials:

markers, assorted colors

white glue or glue stick

scissors

pencil

Product: Alaskan postcard suitable for mailing

Students will discuss the many colorful aspects of

Fairbanks along with some high points of its history.

After examining post card styles, they will design a post

card emphasizing one aspect that captures the essence of

living in Fairbanks. They will then write a note on the

back so they can send it to someone.

PRINCIPLES OF ART (UNIT) Materials:

Lesson 1 (emphasis)


red, yellow, and blue


yellow, and blue


black

5-1/2” x 8-1/2” construction paper,

black


oil pastels

scissors

glue sticks

pencil

Lesson 2 (balance)


and black

5” x 8” construction paper: white,

black, and gray

Product:

Lesson 1: Paper-cut collage and oil pastel drawing

Lesson 2: Paper-cut collage

Lesson 3: Paper-cut collage, marker drawing with 3D

element

Lesson 1: Students look at a variety of images (e.g.,

famous works of art, pop-culture images, photos taken in

nature, photos of Alaska Native artifacts) and learn that

every artist uses the Art Principle EMPHASIS! Students

go on to make thumbnail sketches and

explore how they would like to use

EMPHSSIS in their art. They show their

understanding of EMPHASIS by creating a

piece of art using contrasting colors,

contrasting elements and/or by designing an

interesting composition with cut shapes and

oil pastels.

Second Grade


2” x 4-1/2” construction paper:

white, black, and gray

2” x 4-1/2” construction paper:

red, yellow, and blue

pencils

glue sticks

scissors

Lesson 3 (combining emphasis and

balance)



pencil

6” x 9” tissue paper, variety of

colors

markers, thin-tip, black

glue sticks

scissors

Lesson 2: Students look at a variety of images and

evaluate if the artists have used symmetrical BALANCE

(formal balance) or asymmetrical BALANCE (informal

balance). They will create duplicate cut paper shapes in

black, in white, in gray, and in primary colors. Using

their cut-shapes, students go on to explore both

symmetrical and asymmetrical balance by creating two

pieces of art that

illustrate their

understanding of this

art principle.

Lesson 3: Students demonstrate their understanding of

BALANCE by creating an asymmetrical or symmetrical

collage. They will add interest to their collage by

developing complementary design elements with marker

and create depth in their work

by adding a translucent layer of

colored tissue over their work.

They will complete their piece

by adding a contrasting

symmetrical or asymmetrical

area of EMPHASIS.

PRINTMAKING EDITIONS (2 PARTS) Materials:

printing ink

copier paper


Product: A basic “plate” of an imaginary unit of money,

then will print a specific number of bills in an “edition”

Students will examine paper money, considering both its

function and printmaking design.

Second Grade


QUEEN OF THE NILE: EGYPTIAN Materials:

broad-tip markers, dark colors

oil pastels


Product: An oil pastel drawing of an Egyptian queen

done in the Egyptian frontalism-style

Students study the art and culture of ancient Egypt, with

an emphasis on the frontalism painting style. One student

models the Egyptian queen costume, included in the kit,

and the students draw her in the frontalism-style.

QUILTS: CAPTURE THE FEELING Materials:

construction paper, colored

scissors

glue

Product: Small quilt-type designs that "capture the

feeling" of a beach, desert, or jungle

Students will examine how artists use color and shape to

"capture the feeling" of a particular place and try to do

likewise in a small paper quilt design.

RAGGEDY ANN MEETS MATISSE (2 PARTS) Materials:


white

brushes, 1" and one smaller one

liquid tempera: red, yellow, blue,

white and black

newspaper (to protect desks)

water cups

Product: A large, brightly colored decorative painting

Students will learn about and discuss artwork of Henry

Matisse. They will paint a picture of a large doll

(included) with patterns.

Second Grade


SCRIBBLE DRAWING Materials:

pencil

12" x 18" newsprint or drawing

paper


assorted colors

Product: A sketchbook containing scribble drawings

Students will learn scribble techniques for drawing

people in different poses. Several students will pose as

the class draws multiple sketches in their sketchbooks.

SHAPE STATIONS (2 PARTS) Materials:


or dark blue

Liquid or cake Tempera paint in

primary & secondary colors

1” flat edge paint brushes, 4-5 per

color station depending on class

size

Oil pastels to share

Product: Students create an imaginary “shape (space)

station.”

Students create an imaginary “shape (space) station” by

painting 4 different, large geometric shapes with tempera

paint. Each shape is done in a different primary or

secondary color, depending on the “color station” the

student arrives at. Then, they add connecting “walk

ways” between their “modules” with oil pastels. Patterns,

windows, or other surface details are also added to each

module, and students learn some techniques for creating

shooting stars or other space objects.

This STEAM friendly lesson provides opportunities for

exploration of some outer space and solar system

connections. Students are encouraged to imagine what it

would be like to live or work in outer space. It also

provides additional practice with geometric/plane shapes

and what makes these shapes different from organic

shapes, such as clouds, which are found in the natural

world.

SHAVEROONIES FROM OUTER SPACE Materials:


colored

scissors

glue

markers, black

Product: A design of an outer space creature made from

cut pieces of paper with added textures

Students will learn how to cut or shave paper to make

interesting shapes. Then they will discuss different visual

textures and add textures to all the shapes before

combining them to make a creature.

Second Grade


SKIERS: COLOR OF THE ARCTIC GAMES Materials:


blue and pink


medium green, dark green, white


white

3” x 6” construction paper: reds,

yellows, blues, greens, black and

white

1/2" x 12” construction paper,

black


light brown/tan

glue sticks

scissors

Product: 3D sculpture within a diorama

Students are introduced to the Arctic Winter Games

(AWG), as well as geographic locations of the

participating teams and team flags. They go on to create

a winter diorama for a paper-sculpture skier, outfitted in

a race suit designed by students. All suit colors

correspond to an AWG team of students’ choosing.

Students will position their skiers in action poses to best

show off their unique suit designs. Accessories such as

warm hats, glasses, and racing bibs are added to

individualize the team skiers and extend students’

creative efforts.

SKY THINGS Materials:

scissors

glue

2" x 18" construction paper, light

blue


assorted colors

4" x 5" Astrobright™ paper,

assorted colors

4" x 2" metallic paper

Product: A cut-paper collage of "sky things"

Students will categorize things found in the sky

distinguishing between that which is man-made, natural,

living, and imaginary. Using various types of paper, they

will then cut and paste to create a group of favorite sky

things.

STELLA’S PAINTED SCULPTURES (2 PARTS) Materials:


and sizes

scissors

glue

brushes

water cups

paper towels

Product: A 3D painted shape sculpture

The "painting sculptures" of contemporary artist Frank

Stella are the focus as students discover all the different

lines a paintbrush can make. Shapes will be cut from the

line experiments creating a three-dimensional painting.

STILL LIFE DRAWING (2 PARTS) Materials:

pencil

9” x 12” drawing paper, white and

black

glue

Product: A drawing of objects in a “still life”

Students will arrange ordinary objects and then draw

them, showing relation in space.

Second Grade


STORY SCULPTURE Materials:

white tagboard or cover stock

scissors

pencil

bag or envelope to transport story

Product: A small, free-standing sculpture based on a story

Students will discuss what is two- and three- dimensional,

what is a sculpture, and will then look at examples of art

in their community. Students will create a small, free-

standing sculpture based on a story.

SUN STROKES Materials:


sidewalk chalk, pastels

12” x 18” drawing paper, white

Product: Radial designs that are made with chalk dipped

in tempera paint

Students will study Vincent van Gogh’s painting style in

which he used swirling lines to create the sun. They will

make “sun-strokes” and swirling suns of their own.

SYMBOLS & SELF Materials:




black (for tri-fold)

glue sticks

heavy duty foil, large (18”) and

small (12”)

scissors

crayons (with paper off)

3” x 3” foil squares

Product: A 3D wall hanging featuring a foil mask and an

analogous color rubbing

Students will be introduced to art made by contemporary

Alaska Native artist Da-ka-xeen Mehner. They will

develop symbols that relate to their life, and create

background patterns using these symbols through crayon

rubbing techniques. Students will create a simple,

molded foil mask of their own face, mount their

likenesses to their background panel, and add additional

materials to augment their personal wall hanging.

Second Grade


TEXTILE DESIGNER: MARIA’S COLORFUL PILLOW Materials:


9” x 9” construction paper, white and

black

white glue

pencils

water-based chisel point markers,

colored


crayons, black

paper towels

Product: A 3D pillow design

Students will look at fabric examples to examine how

textile designers arrange motifs and color. With basic

insight into repeat patterning and color arrangement,

students will use Maria Martinez pot shapes to inspire

their own textile motif. Students will work with a

colorful palette to develop a beautiful three-dimensional

pillow design.

TEXTURED LANDSCAPES WITH GRANT WOOD Materials:


white and colored

oil pastels

glue

markers

Product: Textured landscapes

Students will review landscape paintings by grade level

artist Grant Wood, and create their own textured

landscapes with markers and oil pastels, filling in bits of

color where desired.

TEXTURE TOWN: FAIRBANKS FROM ABOVE Materials:

butcher paper, white

glue sticks

copy of map masters

pencils, regular classroom-type

Product: Textured, mural-sized map of Fairbanks

Students look at landscape paintings by Grant Wood and

images from Earth from Above by photographer Yann Arthus-

Bertrand to better their understanding of implied textures.

Using a variety of drawing tools, students will experiment

with developing textures of their own, and go on to contribute

to the creation of a colorful, highly-textured, large-format map

of the North Star Borough.

TOTEM TALES Materials:

9” x 12” construction paper, tan

3" x 5" index cards

scissors

glue

crayons or plastic crayons

Product: A small 3-D paper totem pole

Students will study totem poles, and then create a small

totem that tells a personal or fictitious story.

TREES & BEYOND Materials:

markers, black (class set)

oil pastels


assorted dark and light colors

Product: An oil pastel drawing of trees, land, and the sky

Oil pastel techniques will be used to draw trees, land, and

the sky. The structure of the tree will be studied along

with reproductions showing artist interpretations.

Second Grade


VAN GOGH ART APPRECIATION This art appreciation kit introduces students to the

famous artist Vincent Van Gogh. The focus is on his

style and use of line and color. Appreciation activities are

included.

Second Grade


WOOD, GRANT: LANDSCAPES Materials:



dark colors

paper towels (per two students)

Payon™ sets (per two students)

water cups (per two students)

Product: A farm landscape painting

Grant Wood painted the rolling hills and people of Iowa.

Students will use Payons™ (painting crayons) to draw

and paint the colorful layers of land showing the patterns

of crops.

WRI-TING WITH RHY-THM Materials (included in the kit):

lesson plan

how-to movies on DVD

how-to posters (five)

wooden spoons (class set-for use

as barrens)

take-home sheet, master copy

Materials (not included):

glue sticks

scissors

oil pastels (one set per student)


(folded in half-“hotdog-style”)

4” x 10” railroad board or

cardstock

4” x 2” railroad board (two per

student)

1/4" x 12” railroad board or paper

can work (six per student)


or gray

Product: A colorful print expressing their name in

musical percussion

Students will make beautiful and colorful prints and

express their names through visual art and musical

percussion. Using cardstock and oil pastels, they will

make musical collages. They will use the number of

syllables in their first and last names as symbols in their

designs. They will carefully handprint their collaged

printing plates using wooden spoons as barrens.



Blue, bold-face font indicates a new kit. Adventurous People

Alaskan Animals & Franz Marc

Arrayscapes

Beautiful Oops!

Berry's Animal Silhouettes

Birch Poetree

Blue Dog: A Pop Art Icon

Braiding: Mexico’s Day of the Dead

Card Making

Caribou on the Tundra

Carlo’s Masks

Celebrating the Elements

Cezanne’s Apples

Chena River Appreciation

Chinese Style Paper Lanterns

Circles of Color

Comic Artist: Jamie Smith

Commemorative Stamps of Yukon Quest

Contour Shoe Drawing

Dance Your Dreams

Detectives of Art

Dog Mushing: Sprinting & Printing

Dream Catchers

Endangered Species with Andy Warhol

Expressionist Environments

Fable Illustrations

Fairbanks: River Travel

Faith Ringgold’s Bridges

Fiesta Flags

Flower Parts

Frog in Monet’s Pond

Gold Hills

Haring's Action Figures

Hoover’s Culture Sculpture

Hoover’s Spirit Stories

How I Find Graphic Design

Illustrating Your Work

Imagine That Habitat

James Schoppert: Modern Faces

Kwanzaa Kinaras

Line & Shape Messages (revised)

Magic Machine

Mayan Headdresses: Animals in the Stars

Mexican Bark Painting


Monet's Color Wheels

Monet's Gardens

Monet’s Underwater World

Moon Collages

Murals of our Towns & Villages

My Monster's Pet

Oil Pastel Flowers

Paper Engineering

Pastel Alaskan Animals

Picasso's Animal Sculptures

Picasso's Lines

Picasso’s Musicians

Picasso’s Portraits

Picasso’s Still Life with Guitar

"Pig"casso

Postage Stamps

Printmaking with a Message

Pueblo Pottery

Quilting with Fractions & Symmetry

Raven Sculptures: John Hoover

Ringgold: I Can Fly

Ringgold’s Art History

Ringgold's Memory Quilts

Ringgold’s Rhombus City

Spiral, Shapes, and Houses

Starry Night: Van Gogh

Tile Design

Trying Out Triangles

Undersea Garden: Ray Troll

Watercolor Dragon Painting

Watercolor Monotype (revised)

Water Reflections of Claude Monet

What Color is Winter?

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Third Grade


ADVENTUROUS PEOPLE Materials:

• thin-tip markers, assorted colors

• glue sticks

• 9” x 12” construction paper,

assorted colors

• large object photocopies

(included)

Product: “Little people” drawn on large objects

Students will draw “little people” having adventures on

large objects associated with Mexico and Canada.

ALASKAN ANIMALS & FRANZ MARC Materials:





oil pastels

fine point pen, black

Product: An oil pastel drawing of Alaskan animals

Students will learn about Franz Marc, a German painter

who loved to paint colorful animals in a dream-like way.

They will draw their own Alaskan animals using

geometric shapes and repetition to complete the design.

Oil pastels are used as they choose between warm and

cool colors to separate animals from the background.

ARRAYSCAPES Materials:

glue sticks

scissors

markers, thin black

9" x 12" construction paper, grey

and black

6" x 9" construction paper, grey

and black


various shades of blue, lavender,

and magenta

pastels, oil or chalk

paper scraps, colored

Product: A pop-up castle or city with mathematically

arrayed windows and landscape background

with imaginative details

Students become whimsical pop-up architects!

They look at cityscapes and "castlescapes" to inspire

their personal "arrayscape." The windows of the

buildings show mathematical arrays. Backgrounds and

details are added with pen, pastels, and paper scraps to

enhance their 3D buildings. Each artwork contains a

simple equation.

Third Grade


BEAUTIFUL OOPS! Materials:


and assorted colors

oil pastels

fine-tip markers

pencils

glue sticks

Product: A dimensional collage using pencil, oil pastel

and marker

Inspired by the book Beautiful Oops! by Barney

Saltzberg, students will learn to see a perceived mistake as

an opportunity to make something new and exciting.

Creative thinking and problem solving are used as student

received an “oops” scrap to start them off in creating a

dimensional collage with pencil, markers and oil pastels.

BERRY’S ANIMAL SILHOUETTES Materials:

printing brayer (roller)

water-based printing ink, two

colors

6" x 12" papers, white sulfite

drawing or colored construction

4” x 4” poster board (one per

student)

scissors

pencils

cafeteria tray

sheet of acetate

glass (to roll ink)

Product: Prints of Alaskan animal silhouettes

Students will cut their own silhouettes of animal shapes

to make a printing plate, and then print it using a

"rainbow roll" print.

BIRCH POETREE Materials:


white


newsprint or phone book pages

8-1/2” x 11” transparency

oil pastels

8-1/2” x 11” copy paper

Product: A 3-D shadow box with birch tree collage and

floating sentence poem

Students will learn the importance of framing their art as

they create a three-dimensional shadow box that features

an abstract collaged birch tree. Using their tree for

inspiration, students assemble a poetic sentence that

hovers in front of their tree. Finishing touches are added

with oil pastels and really make these “poetrees” stand

out.

Third Grade


BLUE DOG: A POP ART ICON Materials:

8” x 9.5” construction paper: black

7” x 8.5” copy paper (half the

legal size)

glue

scissor

pencil

Product: Students create their own Blue Dog image

Students study the art of George Rodrigue and his iconic

Blue Dog image. Students learn the history behind the

image and how George Rodrigue was inspired to create

it. Then, they engage in authentic art making while

learning essential art skills and vocabulary to create their

own Blue Dog image.

BRAIDING: MEXICO’S DAY OF THE DEAD Materials:

pipe cleaners


glue stick

stamps (made from rubber erasers)

scissors

Product: A pipe cleaner braid mounted on a colorful

stamped paper

Students will read the book, A Gift for Abuelita, about

Mexico’s “Day of the Dead” and then will learn to braid

with three strands. Eraser stamps create patterns on the

background paper.

Third Grade


CARD MAKING Materials:

construction paper: warm, cool,

and neutral colors

decorative scissors (included)


paper corrugator tools (included)

Product: A greeting card with cut and corrugated paper, a

specific color scheme, and a specific design

Students will learn about the art of card making as they

are introduced to Tramp-Art, a form of ornamentation

using recycled materials to decorate objects. They will

design their own cards using a variety of papers, fancy

paper-edgers, and thread.

CARIBOU ON THE TUNDRA Materials:

tissue paper, colored (that bleeds

when wet)


green, black and brown


glue

water cups

brushes


6" x 4-1/2" construction paper,

black

Product: A tissue paper collage of a tundra landscape

with a caribou or hint of a caribou

Students refer to A Caribou Journey to learn about

caribou and their environment, the tundra and its impact

on the Athabascan people.

CARLO’S MASKS Materials:

9" x 12" construction paper: blue,

orange, purple, brown, gray and

green (2 values each)

construction paper pieces, small,

assorted colors (including black)

glue


scissors

Product: Construction paper mask

Students will learn about Athabascan artist Kathleen

Carlo. They will study her masks as they use the art

elements to create their own two-value mask.

CELEBRATING THE ELEMENTS Materials:

watercolor paints

oil pastels, black


black



glue sticks

scissors

Product: A painted collage using the art elements

Students will look at a painting by Roy Lichtenstein and

discuss how he uses the art elements of line, shape, color,

and texture. Then they will create a piece of art by

drawing and painting using the elements of art as

inspiration.

Third Grade


CEZANNE’S APPLES Materials:

oil pastels


scissors

butcher paper: white, brown and

one color

bulletin board, clear (for display)

Product: A realistic apple drawing that combines with the

class set to make a large still life

Students will learn about the nutritional value and health

benefits of apples and study them like the artist Cezanne.

Oil pastels are used to create the highlights and shadows

of these healthy fruits. A class set comes together to

make a large artwork that resembles one of Cezanne’s

many still lifes.

CHENA RIVER APPRECIATION Materials:


metallic paper

oil pastels

glue sticks

colored pencils, white only

Product: A vibrant, abstract, oil pastel drawing on metallic

paper

Students will review how the Chena River played an

important role in creating Fairbanks, and the many ways it

enhances our community. As Fairbanks was being

formed, so was a new art movement in Europe called Art

Nouveau. Art Nouveau focuses on nature with sweeping

curves and stylized lines. Students will recreate this

feeling in a piece of artwork with oil pastels, making

river-like forms on metallic paper. Lines and patterns are

etched-in to add texture and finishing details.

CHINESE STYLE PAPER LANTERNS Materials:


assorted colors

1-1/2” construction paper, squares


•4-1/2” x 6” tissue paper, assorted

colors

pipe cleaners

glue sticks

scissors

Product: A 2-D, colorful, animal-shaped, paper lantern

Students will be inspired by the story and illustrations of

Stefan Czernecki’s book, Paper Lanterns. Students will

create bright animal-shaped paper lanterns with simple

design motifs.

CIRCLES OF COLOR Materials:

tempera cakes, primary and

secondary colors

brushes

water cups


Product: Four squares of painted circles

Students will look at the color study painting of

concentric circles done by artist Wassily Kandinsky.

They will learn about color schemes and create their own

color study with tempera paint.

Third Grade


COMIC ARTIST: JAMIE SMITH Materials:

copy paper


pencils

thick-tip felt markers, black

fine-tip felt markers, black

ultra-fine point pens (3 thicknesses

of markers; thick, medium, thin)

Product: A wacky collaboratively drawn character with

outlining and texture added by markers

Students are introduced to the multi-faceted, local comic

artist Jamie Smith. Students will look at his communal

approach to comic art, and play a traditional comic game

in which a character is created. Using drawing

techniques and felt tip pens, students will “ink” in the

character and name the odd creation.

COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS OF YUKON QUEST Materials:

9” X 12” construction paper: black

and white

7.5” x 9” construction paper:

various colors

glue stick

ruler

colored pencils

fine tip black markers

Product: Students will develop their own commemorative

stamp

Students learn about the history of the Yukon Quest, and

the concept of commemoration through postage stamps.

They will develop their own commemorative stamp

honoring the sled dogs as arctic athletes involved in this

great race.

CONTOUR SHOW DRAWING Materials:

paper

pencils

glue stick


Product: A line drawing of a shoe

Students will become aware that a drawn line often

represents the edge of an object. As artists, they will learn

how to see an edge and then record that edge on paper.

Using their shoe as a model, students will create a contour

line drawing.

Third Grade


DANCE YOUR DREAMS Materials:

Three values of green, purple,

orange, and brown

scissors

glue

metallic paper

Product: A collage figure of a person in action

Students will read Rap-A-Tap-Tap, a book inspired by

Bill Robinson, an African American dancer who

followed his dream before the Civil Rights Movement.

While thinking about their own dreams, students will

create a collage of a person in action. Movement is

shown with repeated arms or legs in changing values of a

color.

DETECTIVES OF ART Materials:

oil pastels

6" x 4-1/2" construction paper,

white


glue

view finders

Product: An oil pastel enlargement of part of a painting

Students are detectives of art as they gather clues about

their three third grade artists – Claude Monet, Pablo

Picasso, and Faith Ringgold. Using the clues they have

learned, they will play a game of “guess the artist.” Each

student will then take a reproduction from one of the

artists and draw a small part using oil pastels.



water cups

brushes











DOG MUSHING: SPRINTING & PRINTING Materials:

ink, white


glue sticks

poster board

crayons

Product: A side by side print and printmaking plate

showing two mushing teams with white ink on black

paper

Students will design an abstract printmaking plate with a

sprinting dog team and athlete and will see how it flips

when they print it. Students will learn about the different

distances of dog mushing in the Arctic Winter Games

and compare and contrast it with the Yukon Quest.

Finally, they will get to hand color their print making it

really come to life.

Third Grade


DREAM CATCHERS Materials:

pipe cleaners

wire

yarn

beads

feathers

grasses or raffia

Product: A dream catcher

Students will look at the Ojibwa Indian tradition of

weaving dream catchers. They will choose color schemes

using the universal themes of earth, water, wind, and fire.

Students are taught how to do a “half-hitch” as they

weave their dream catcher.

Third Grade


ENDANGERED SPECIES WITH ANDY WARHOL Materials:

paint brushes

water cups

oil pastels


assorted colors


mounting)

glue (for mounting)

pencil (for tracing)

Product: A portrait of an endangered species done in

tempera paint and oil pastels

Students will learn about artist Andy Warhol, how he

added color and line to photographs, and his Endangered

Species series. Using templates, tempera cake paint, and

oil pastels, students will create their own colorful

endangered animal painting.

EXPRESSIONIST EVIRONMENTS Materials:

oil pastels


colors,


colors


colors


colors


colors


scissors

glue

telephone wire

Product: A paper pop-out form filled with line, shape,

color, and texture

Students will look at artist Judy Pfaff and her style of

work. They will use color, shape, line, and texture

creating a three-dimensional environment out of paper.

They will then cut, fold, curl, and bend paper, adding

wire and oil pastel design for detail.

Third Grade


FABLE ILLUSTRATIONS Materials:

fine-tip pens, black


6” x 9” construction paper: green,

gray, and brown


assorted colors

Product: Illustrated fable characters

Students will become fable illustrators as they create

animal characters with torn paper shapes. The title and

moral of the fable, along with a patterned border,

embellish the design.

FAIRBANKS: RIVER TRAVEL Materials:

oil pastels



scissors

glue stick

Product: A torn paper landscape embellished with oil

pastels and colorful cut-out drawings of one type of river

transportation

Students will look at the modes of river travel when Felix

Pedro discovered gold. After observing sternwheelers,

canoes, barges, and rafts, students will create a river

scene collage with a boat of choice using torn paper, oil

pastels, and black pens.

FAITH RINGGOLD’S BRIDGES Materials:


white

glue sticks

scissors


glue (mixed with black paint)

paintbrushes, #10 and #7

Product: A layered watercolor cityscape with a black

glue suspension bridge

Students will look at Faith Ringgold’s Bridges series and

learn that many famous artists used bridges as subjects.

Using color theory, students will make prepared papers

that they use to create a cityscape and add a bridge using

a black glue line. Students will also learn about Faith’s

use of bridges to represent overcoming struggles and

adversity.

FIESTA FLAGS Materials:

copy paper

poster board

construction paper

glue

crayons

string

Product: A string of five bright analogous colored flags

celebrating a person or a holiday of a students’ choosing

Students will learn that a fiesta is a celebration with food,

dancing, Mariachi music, and colorful decorations. One

type of decoration in particular, Mexican “papel

picados,” is studied and these cut paper flags inspire the

art project. Students will create a layered paper flag

template, and then will make bright crayon rubbings with

analogous colors. Multiple flags are created and strung

together for their final festive artwork.

Third Grade


FLOWER PARTS Materials:

construction paper

oil pastels

glue

scissors

Product: A drawing and a collage of flower parts

Students will study the parts of flowers and also learn

how botanist Elizabeth Britton drew hundreds of plants

in detail.

FLOWERS & RADIAL DESIGN Materials:

oil pastels

brushes

pencils

rulers

scissors


paper towels

Product: A radial design of a drawing/painting

Students will look at the many things around them, both

natural and man-made, that have radial design. They will

take a closer look at the radial design in flowers. Just like

the flowers, they begin with a center shape and let the

flower grow as their ideas grow. They will finish with oil

pastels, watercolor, and contour cutting.

FROG IN MONET’S POND Materials:

tempera cakes



colors


1" foam brushes

water cups

paper towels

oil pastels

scissors

glue

Product: A watercolor painting of water lilies on a pond;

a frog is cut out and added later

Students will listen to the book Philippe In Monet’s

Garden as they learn about the artist Claude Monet

through the eyes of a frog. They will recreate a Monet-

like pond and then draw and cut out a frog.

Third Grade


GOLD HILLS Materials:

construction paper

liquid tempra paint: red, black,

orange, and magenta

acrylic paint, gold

glue sticks

Product: A marbled and torn paper mountain landscape

Students learn that gold was and is an important natural

resource in the Fairbanks area. They learn that the “gold

in them, thar hills” is rarely in the nugget form of

yesteryear. Today, gold is mined on a microscopic level.

Inspired by the close up views of microscopic gold,

students learn a marbling technique. With the marbled

paper they create a torn paper landscape with swirls of

gold in their hills.

Third Grade


HARING’S ACTION FIGURES Materials:

scrap paper, white


assorted colors


assorted colors

oil pastels

scissors

glue

Product: Brightly colored action figures in the style of

Keith Haring

Students will learn about contemporary artist Keith

Haring who is famous all over the world for his

wonderful, cartoon-like paintings and graffiti art. He is

known for his simple, playful figures drawn in subway

stations, on buildings, furniture, clothing, etc. Students

will draw simplified "action figures" in the style of Keith

Haring.

HOOVER’S CULTURE SCULPTURE Materials:

pipe cleaners, four per student

copy paper


tempra cakes: red, yellow, orange,

blue, green, violet

1/2" easel paintbrushes


2” x 3” metallic paper

glue sticks

scissors

Product: A freestanding sculpture made with painted

paper shapes and pipe-cleaners

Students will review what they have learned about the

Aleut artist John Hoover and view his iconic sculpture

Seaweed People, which sits in the White House sculpture

garden. Inspired by this artwork, students will use

analogous, warm or cool colors and a dry brush painting

technique to create prepared paper. They use this paper to

make a low relief, 3D sculpture that shares Hoover’s

cultural storytelling elements.

HOOVER’S SPIRIT STORIES Materials:

9” x 12” construction paper, several

colors

9” x 9” construction paper: gray, tan

1-1/2” x 4” construction paper, light

brown

oil pastels (sorted into specific color

sets)

felt-tip markers, black

glue sticks

scissors

Product: A symmetrical, person and animal, mask-like oil

pastel artwork

Students are introduced to the Aleut artist John Hoover.

They will view his unique style of carved wooden panels

and observe how his art shows a story or legend. Inspired

by animal and human forms in Hoover’s work, students

use oil pastels and a cut paper panel to show a story of

their own.

Third Grade


HOW DO I FIND GRAPHIC DESIGN Materials:

sketchbooks or ten sheets of copy

paper, stapled



strips


markers

Product: A mini artist portfolio with a personal logo on

the cover

Students learn that there are careers in the arts and the

class researches what a graphic designer does. They

practice web-based search skills and how to navigate (or

get around) a website using hyperlinks and sidebars. Next,

students create a simple portfolio that displays their

artistic process. In their portfolio, students work on a

“graphic design challenge” where they create a personal

logo.

ILLUSTRATING YOUR WORK Materials:

copier paper

overhead projector

wide-tip felt markers, black

thin-tip felt markers, black

scissors

glue stick

crayon, black Note: Teachers need to prepare a “typed student

manuscript” before doing the art lesson.

Product: An illustrated writing by students

Illustrating techniques are explored with ink line

drawings. Value, contrast, and texture are studied using

the sketches of Toulouse Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh.

Students will make illustrations with media suitable for

reproduction on the photocopier.

Third Grade


JAMES SCHOPPERT: MODERN FACES Materials:

Lesson 1

construction paper: white 3”x5” (3

per student) and black 6” x 12” (1

per student)

black, thin marker

thin markers, color pencils or

crayons in shades of greens and

blues

glue

Lesson 2

construction paper: brown 10” x

14” and black 9” x 4 ½”

glue

scissors

Lesson 3

construction paper: black 8”x 8”

and dark blue 6” x 6”

glue

scissors

Product: 2D and 3D abstract paper designs

This unit introduces the Alaska Native Artist James

Schoppert. The three lessons explore his influences

along with both his contemporary and traditional work.

Students create three different artworks focused on

creating an abstract face. The lessons include color

theory, positive and negative design, 3D design, and

collage. All lessons incorporate using one’s imagination

and creativity.

KWANZA KINARAS Materials:

construction paper, white and black

glue sticks

scissors

oil pastels

tempera paint, black

paper clips, bent

paper towels

paint brushes

Product: Kwanzaa kinara

Students will design a kinara for Kwanzaa by patterning a

kinara with oil pastels and then painting over and scraping

away paint to create a "graffiti" effect.

Third Grade


LINE & SHAPE MESSAGES Materials:

Scissors

Glue stick

Pencil



magenta, orange, or green (students

choose one)

2” x 4” metallic paper (colors

match construction paper the

students chose) or substitute tin foil

Oil pastels: white

Oil pastels, light or dark to match

construction paper: pink and red,

peach and orange, light green and

green, or pink and purple

Thumb tack (shared in small

groups)

2” masking tape

Product: A 3-D wire and paper collage

Students will learn how artists send messages by the

types of lines and shapes they use. Students will send a

“secret message” with their collage by repeating one type

of line family and its related shape with oil pastels,

metallic paper, and wire.

LINE DANCING Materials:

copier paper

sketch books (included)

pencils

drawing tools, assortment

(included)

18” length of wire (included)


black and a color

scissors

glue

yellow dots (included)

Product: A 12” x 18” artwork celebrating lines drawn,

cut, and created with bent wire

Line and shapes are studied as being a part of two

families, straight and curved. Students will learn how

artists can send messages by the kinds of lines and

shapes they use. Then students will make a collage

repeating lines with various drawing tools. A piece of

wire is added to create a “dancing line”.

LINES, LEAVES, & COLOR Materials:



orange, green and violet

glue sticks

scissors

thin-tip markers, black crayons

Product: A detailed marker and crayon drawing

Students will use a “Zoomer-inner” (circular viewfinder) to

help them focus in on leaves. They will create an interesting

composition and look at the outlines, veins and colors of

leaves. After looking and focusing, students will carefully

draw in pencil what they see. Students will go on to draw over

their lines with thin-tip markers. Using crayons, students will

experiment with blended colors to accurately shade their

leaves.

Third Grade


MAGIC MACHINE Materials:

12" x 18" drawing paper, white or

gray


thick-tip markers, black


Product: A large size drawing of a student-invented

machine

Students will look at the many types of simple machines

(i.e., pulleys, wedges, gears) and then design their own

fanciful machine.

MAYAN HEADDRESSES: ANIMALS IN THE STARS Materials:


tin foil

craft sticks or tongue depressors

toothpicks

washable paint: white, yellow and

red

Karo® syrup

glue, white

Product: An interactive, mixed-media moon, sun, and

stars painting

Students will explore concepts of near and far and big

and small, as well as practice their gluing skills. A

mixed-media painting is created to show that the big and

bright sun can still be covered by the closer and smaller

moon in an interactive art piece.

MEXICAN BARK PAINTING Materials:


construction paper: manila, light

brown and white

thin-tip drawing pen, black

construction paper, colored (for

mounting)

glue

scissors

Product: A color marker drawing in the style of Mexican

bark painters

Students will study the delightful bark paintings of

Mexican folk artists. Daily life, holidays, and cultural

activities are depicted in these pattern-filled, colorful

paintings. Students will use this style of painting to

create their own "daily life" drawing.




Third Grade


MONET’S COLOR WHEELS Materials:

block printing ink : red, yellow

and blue

6” paper plates

#7 paint brush

#10 paint brush


9" x 9" paper, black

2" x 12" paper strips, white

2" x 2" paper square, gray

Product: A painted color wheel

French impressionist painter Claude Monet is especially

known for his water lily paintings done in a loose, brushy

style. Students will look at some of Monet's paintings

and talk about how he used color. They will practice

mixing colors, paint a color wheel, and try out some

Monet-like brush strokes.

MONET’S GARDENS Materials:


easel brushes, large

paper towels

block printing ink: red, blue and

yellow

sponges, dishes, palettes

(included)

Product: Large watercolor garden paintings

Students will learn to use a palette and mix colors like an

artist. They will stand and paint a large garden painting

using wet-on-wet technique. While it dries, they can

study the impressionist painter Monet, and see some of

his garden paintings and photos of the places that

inspired them.

MONET’S UNDERWATER WORLD Materials:

scissors

glue stick

pencil

11” green yarn

3” x 4” copy paper




Markers: red, orange, yellow,

green, blue, purple, and brown

1” x 1” tissue paper, assorted

colors

Product: A diorama box depicting a koi fish pond with

water lilies.

Students will discover the fascinating exosystem of a lily

pad covered, koi fish pond.

Students will construct a

pond diorama ecosystem to

include flowering water lilies

as inspired by Claud Monet’s

water lily paintings, and print

a rubber koi fish, much like

the Gyotaku fish printing

method.

Third Grade


MOON COLLAGES Materials:

oil pastels

watercolor paints

brushes

water cups

scissors

glue


9" x 6" construction paper: blue,

purple and gray

epsom salt

“moon words” (master included)

Product: A multimedia moon collage

Students will look at the moon in terms of shape, color,

and texture. They will use watercolor, oil pastels, cut and

torn papers, and cut-out words to build a collage.


drawing paper

construction paper


pencils

glue sticks




McKinley.

MURALS OF OUR TOWNS & VILLAGES Materials:

paper, manila

markers, black

6’ roll paper, dark blue

oil pastels

scissors

glue Note: The revised kit includes Fairbanks photos

from the original kit entitled “Murals of Fairbanks

and Mexico.”

Product: A class mural of Fairbanks

A mural of Mexican artist Diego Rivera is studied to see

how he applies the rules of perspective to his wall

paintings. Students will create their own mural of the

Fairbanks area by drawing from photos and their own

memory.

MY MONSTER’S PET Materials:

4" x 11" paper, yellow or red



color crayons (fluorescents are fun)

watercolor paints

brushes

water cups

white glue

Product: A poster of a monster's pet done in crayon-resist

with a short written description

Students will listen to Lillian Moore's poem, “The

Monster's Pet”, and look at creatures on prints made at

Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, and at other traditional and

wacky imaginary beasts. They will create posters with a

drawing of their own monster's pet done in crayon-resist

and write about their monster's pet name, its habits, and

the sounds it likes to make.

Third Grade




oil pastels


black





OIL PASTEL FLOWERS Materials:

oil pastels

wide-tip markers, black


paper towels

newspapers (for desk protection)

Product: A painting of a vase of flowers

Students will examine and discuss flowers painted by

famous artists. They will then develop their own flowers

through a quick sketch process.

Third Grade





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oil pastels

pencil







their own feelings.

PAPER ENGINEERING Materials

4” X 4” copy paper, white



violet and green

2” x 2” construction paper, red OR

orange

glue sticks

Product: A symbolic version of a pop-up on the water

cycle

Students will learn about paper engineering and how it

transforms paper in many ways. Danish artist Peter

Callesen’s artwork, remarkably made from just a simple

piece of plain white paper, is viewed. Then students will

learn how to use a specialized cutting tool to do some

paper engineering of their own. The water cycle becomes

the subject of their art, as students use symmetry and pop-

up techniques with their paper and the results look very

cutting edge!


other supplies and instructions to assist with papermaking.

PASTEL ALASKAN ANIMALS Materials:

pastel chalks

12” x 18” construction paper: gray,

tan, or black

newspaper (one full sheet per student)

paper towels

Product: A chalk drawing of an Alaskan animal

Students will begin to recognize and discuss the

differences in the way artists’ draw, while drawing their

own interpretation of an Alaskan animal.

PICASSO’S ANIMAL SCULPTURE Materials:

newspaper


metallic paper pieces

scissors

wide-tip markers, black

glue & glue spreaders (cardboard)

Product: A 3D standing animal made of newspaper for

texture and black markers for pattern

Students will look at playful animal sculptures that

Picasso made from found objects. Students will cut out

standing animals made from newspaper glued to

construction paper for strength. Repeated patterns with

black markers decorate the animals.

Third Grade


PICASSO’S LINES Materials:

construction paper, tan or gray

crayons

Product: A 9" x 9" line design or large painting

Based on directions from an enclosed card game, students

will construct a line design. Lesson can also be adapted to

make a painting with black tempera lines and colored

tempera spaces.

PICASSO’S MUSICIANS Materials:

crayons

construction paper (cut and

organized by color scheme)

small pieces of newspaper

small pieces of music sheets

texture boards (included)

scissors

glue

Product: A collage of a musician playing an instrument

designed in “cubist” style with a specific color scheme

Students will look at how often Picasso used musical

instruments in his paintings and collages. The students

will work in Picasso’s “Cubist” style to create a collage of

people playing instruments. Colored papers, crayons,

texture boards, music notes, and upbeat music help create

the lively collages.

PICASSO’S PORTRAITS Materials:

9" x 12" construction paper: gray,

manila, peach and light brown

paper scraps or small pieces, colored

(about 3" x 4")

felt markers, black

scissors

glue

oil pastels

Product: A collage portrait

Students will examine portraits by Picasso and discuss his

interest in abstraction. They will then draw parts of a face

from different angles and build a collage portrait.

PICASSO’S STILL LIFE WITH GUITAR Materials:


or gray


black and gray


light colors

3” x 4-1/2 ” construction paper,


scissors

glue

crayons, black and white

Product: A construction paper collage still life in Picasso's

style

Pablo Picasso made hundreds of drawings, sculptures,

paintings, and collages that incorporated his beloved

guitars and mandolins. Students will talk about Picasso's

life and art, looking mostly at his "still life." Then,

looking at real instruments and other objects, they will

create their own cut-paper collage.

“PIG”CASSO Materials:

glue stick

oil pastels

9" x 12" construction paper


Product: A torn paper pig character with an oil pastel

background

Geometric shapes are used as visual guides to tear out the

body parts of a pig. The personality of the pig and the

setting come alive as the students draw with oil pastels.

Third Grade


PLOVERS: A NATURE SKETCHBOOK Materials:

sketchbooks

colored pencils

Product: A sketchbook with studies of color-mixing and

bird drawings

Students will learn about the Golden Plover from the

book, Flight of the Golden Plover. They will practice

mixing colors by layering two and three colored pencils.

Then they will learn how to draw birds standing,

bending, eating, and flying.

POSTAGE STAMPS Materials:

pencils

crayons, markers, or colored

pencils

duplicates of enclosed master on

which to draw

Product: Drawing of an original postage stamp

Students will learn about social and economical reasons

for stamps. Students will learn that artists design stamps.

PRINTMAKING WITH A MESSAGE Materials:

construction paper

cardboard or cardstock

printing ink

crayons

ink pens, black

old telephone books

Product: Shapes will reflect a message written around the

print

Students will discuss the power of visual culture and the

role of the artist in the world today. After exploring the

art of printmaking, the students will design a cardboard

printing plate made of shapes.

PUEBLO POTTERY Materials:

crayons

scissors

glue

master sheet of Pueblo pots

(included)

thick-tip marking pen, dark

colored

Product: A drawing of a piece of pottery with Pueblo

Indian design

Students will discuss the work style and its relationship

to art by looking at the style of Pueblo Indian pottery. It

is a good pre-lesson for making pottery.

PUPPETS & JIM HENSON Materials:


and sizes

scissors

glue

markers, black

Product: A paper puppet with a moving mouth

Students will develop their own puppet characters using

ideas from puppeteer Jim Henson. They will learn the

difference between marionettes, puppets, and Muppets.

They will create a puppet with a moveable mouth and

"introduce" their puppet to others.

Third Grade


QUILTING WITH FRACTIONS & SYMMETRY Materials:

3” x 3” construction paper square,

three-color scheme (one per child)

9” x 9” construction paper square,

three-color scheme (one per child)


(four each)


black (one each)


(cut from scraps)

3” x 9” railroad board (straight-

edge cut)

scissors

glue stick

Product: A 15” x 15” colorful quilt square

Students will learn about the history of quilt designs and

their origins using geometric terms. They will focus on

the nine-square patch and learn to cut squares into

equivalent fractions. They will design their own nine-

square quilt pattern focusing on symmetry in both the

center and the borders.

Third Grade


RAVEN SCULPTURES: JOHN Materials:


metallic paper

thread, black

scissors

glue

pencil

Product: A raven mobile

Students will look at a raven sculpture by Alaskan artist

John Hoover. They will learn about the raven itself

before making their own paper raven sculpture. Contour

lines create the outline form while texture comes from

paper notches. Balance is considered as students will turn

their ravens into mobiles.

RINGGOLD: I CAN FLY Materials:



colors

1” x 6” patterned paper

strips

copy paper (1 per student)

crayons, color pencils, or

markers (student choice)

glue stick

scissors

Product: Drawing of a flying person with texts of

student’s thoughts and ideas included in the design

Students learn about artist Faith Ringgold by looking at

her work Tar Beach. Students are guided through an

Artful Thinking routine to discuss what they see, think,

and wonder while viewing her quilt. Then, they create

their own flying person and use text to create their

thoughts and ideas around the theme of imagination.

RINGGOLD’S ART HISTORY Materials:

photocopied images of famous

paintings

photocopied patterns on colorful

paper



title paper

crayons

Product: A collage from pieces of a famous painting

Students will make a collage as they focus on the French

collection quilts of Faith Ringgold, an African American

female artist. They will draw themselves interacting with

parts of famous paintings and piece the collage together

in the style of Ringgold quilts.

RINGGOLD’S MEMORY QUILTS Materials:


assorted colors


assorted colors

2" x 4" wallpaper strips

scissors

glue

crayons

good writing pen, black

Product: An individual paper story quilt with a written

and drawn memory center and a pieced paper border

This lesson is designed to be taught in two sessions. The

first session explores the work of author, illustrator,

painter, and quilt maker Faith Ringgold, looking

especially at her story quilts. Students will write a

sentence recalling a personal memory and do an

illustration that becomes the center of their own story

quilt. In the second session, students will put together

their quilt with a colored, pieced border.

Third Grade


RINGGOLD’S RHOMBUS CITY Materials:

9” x 12” construction paper: black


blue, blue, purple, magenta)

markers, black, fine

line

oil pastel sets

(students can share)

colored copy paper

glue scissors

Product: Students create artwork with tall city buildings

using a rhombus shape, and an imaginary flying person.

Students learn a brief history of Faith Ringgold by

looking at her artwork. She was raised in New York City

and much of her artwork focuses on this imagery.

Students create tall city buildings using a rhombus.

Details are added as they imagine their own city. An

imaginary flying person is added to connect to

Ringgold’s Tar Beach series.

ROUSSEAU’S RAINFOREST Materials:

2" x 22" railroad board


assorted greens, blues and purples

4-1/2 " x 6" construction paper,

dark green


brown

oil pastels

scissors

glue

Product: A 3D rainforest with a foreground, middle

ground, and background drawn with oil pastels

A discussion of Henri Rousseau’s style and rainforest

paintings introduces the lesson. Students will use oil

pastels to draw and blend colors of the rainforest flora.

Pieces are cut out and glued to make a three-dimensional

construction.

Third Grade


SPIRALS, SHAPES, AND HOUSES Materials:


and white

2” x 3” construction paper: various

colors

oil pastels

tempera cakes: blue, yellow, red or

magenta, green, orange, and purple

brushes

water containers

scissors

Product: Oil pastel drawing and tempera painting of

spirals and parts of houses

Students will learn about Friedrich Hundertwasser, an

Austrian artist, by studying his paintings and his use of

spirals, windows, doors, domes, and the horizontal line to

pull the dream-like objects together. Students will then

create a painting in his style using spirals, shapes, and

houses.

STARRY NIGHT: VAN GOGH Materials:

oil pastels

1" x 2" metallic paper, fluorescent



black

scissors

glue

Product: A construction paper and oil pastel skyscape

Vincent van Gogh's famous painting is used to introduce

a discussion on stars, galaxies, and other celestial bodies.

Students using some of van Gogh’s ideas produce

construction paper and oil pastel skyscapes.

Third Grade


TILE DESIGN Materials:

6" x 6" mat board, assorted colors

6” x 6” railroad board, assorted colors

medium point markers, black

ruler

compasses

Product: A tile design

Students will view some historical uses of tiles, and then use

personal taste to design their own contemporary homes.

TRYING OUT TRIANGLES Materials:

9” x 12” construction paper: dark

blue



squares, various colors (scraps are

okay)

crayons or colored pencils

black markers, thin (pencils will

work as well)

glue stick

scissors

Product: Students write about themselves

inside a triangle, and then use it to create a

person-shaped collage.

Students learn about artist Faith Ringgold.

She explored themes of feminism in her

work, and students use Artful Thinking

Routines to discuss her art. Students create a work of art

using one of her signature shapes… the triangle. After

writing about themselves in a triangle, students

incorporate their writing into a person-shaped collage.

Third Grade


UNDERSEA GARDEN: RAY TROLL Materials:



copy paper, fluorescent

scissors

glue

Product: A paper, low-relief sculpture of an undersea

garden with a colorful imaginary fish and reef plants

Students will study work of Alaskan fish artist Ray Troll

with his unique and humorous undersea perspective.

After looking at coral reefs and tropical fish, students

create their own undersea garden in a "cut-out frame."




included.

Third Grade


WATERCOLOR DRAGON PAINTING Materials:

watercolor paints

brushes

18” x 24” heavy paper, white

water cups

paper towels

Product: A painting of a dragon

Students will learn basic watercolor techniques while

representing their version of a dragon. Some information

about dragons is included.

WATERCOLOR MONOTYPE Materials:


colors

5.5” x 6.5” drawing paper (or white

construction paper)

1 gallon Ziploc® bag for damp paper

2” masking tape

Watercolor paint set with brush

Water cups (shared with partner)

6” paper towels (2 per student)

pencil

Product: An abstract watercolor print

Students will be inspired by abstract

color field paintings. A print is

created through a fascinating transfer

process as they paint an image on a

Plexiglas® plate. Then, using damp

paper, students will pull a “one-of-a-

kind” print. Students will be amazed

to see their abstract image transfer

from plastic onto paper.

WATER REFLECTIONS OF CLAUDE MONET Materials:

oil pastels

construction paper, white and colored

glue stick

mirrors (optional)

Product: An oil pastel reflection painting

Students will discover that Claude Monet was the “Water

Artist.” Using mirrors, students will explore how water

changes the color and light of reflections. Then, using oil

pastels, they will make a “boater’s-eye-view” landscape.

WHAT COLOR IS WINTER? Materials:

scissors

glue

oil pastels


assorted colors


mounting)

Product: Winter landscapes with torn landforms, clouds,

and cut trees; textured with oil pastels

The focus of this lesson is for students to look carefully

at colors in winter landscapes, and at the color artists

they have chosen to use in painting their winter

landscapes. These may be quite varied and colorful.




Advertising Collage: What’s on Your Mind?

African Wall Painting

Aleut Basket Weaving

Amason’s 3D Animals

A New Way to Travel

Antlers: Observe like O’Keeffe

Art in the Round

Athletes in Motion

Aurora Silhouettes

Australian Aboriginal Art: Colors from the Earth (2

Parts)

Beardon Mood Collages

BEARing Messages with Alvin Amason

Big Whopper: From Alaskan Gardens &

Farms

Bird Drawing with Bill Berry

Bird Friends of Creamer’s Field

Bird Sculptures with Janlee Irving

Butterfly Paper Sculpture/Symmetry

Buzzing Around Alaska

Cakes with Thiebaud: Painter

Calder Contour Wire Portraits

Complementary Color Designs

Computer Bugs

Deep Space

Denali Landscape Prints

Exploring Perspective (unit)

Fairbanks Centennial Bridge

Fractured Time (2 Parts)

Hanging Patterned Sculptures (2 Parts)

Hokusai: Blooms, Birds, and Bugs

Hokusai Insects: Japanese Prints

Hokusai: Two Views

Hokusai’s Manga: Animal Drawings

Hokusai’s Waterfall Wonder

Illuminated Nonsense

Insect Sculptures (2 Parts)

Japanese Fish Prints (2 Parts)

Japanese Pottery Path

Jelly Bean Books

Kandinsky I & II (2 Parts)

Kandinsky’s Secret World

Let's Measure 'Round


Magic Carpets

Masks: Making the Unseen Seen

Matisse Cutouts

Mayan Designs

Me in Words

Mission: Space Voyager

O'Keeffe: Alaskan Landscapes

O’Keeffe: Bones (2 Parts)

O'Keeffe: Painter

Olanna’s Arctic Animal Prints

Olanna’s Paper Sculptures

Plant Drawing

Portraits with Texture & Mood (2 Parts)

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

Review the Art Elements: Still Life (2 Parts)

Romare Bearden: Mood Collages

Ron Senungetuk (3 Lessons)

Ron Senungetuk’s Sunscapes

Salmon Summer in Kodiak

Senungetuk’s Repeated Shapes

Shells in Oil Pastel

Snowflakes: Radial Symmetry

Solar Sculpture

Spirit Masks

Statue of Liberty (2 Parts)

Stomp to the Music

Storyknifing Our Symbols

Tolerance Banners

Value of Insects, The






availability






Fourth Grade


ADVERTISING COLLAGE: WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND? Materials:

• 9” X 12” construction paper, black

• 6” x 9” construction paper, white

• paper scraps, assorted colors

• glue

• scissors

• staplers

Product: Artwork that is focused around an issue

important to students using visual culture and created

images

Students will look at a variety of public service ads and

artworks with ideas and messages.

AFRICAN WALL PAINTING Materials:

18" x 24" drawing paper


black

tempera paint, black and brown

glue

scissors

Product: A narrative wall painting using earth colors,

symbolism, and cut-out black silhouettes

Students will create a dramatic painting using the painted

houses in Burkina Faso as inspiration. They will create

their own painted wall, which tells a story. Students will

cut silhouettes for the main characters, and then use

black and brown tempera paint to create the lines and

symbols to finish the story. This lesson also includes

basic drawing technique.

ALEUT BASKET WEAVING Materials:

2” wide construction paper strips,

neutral colors

tempera paint cakes: black, white,



assorted colors

masking tape

water cups

paper towels

Product: A paper weaving with painted pattern

Students are introduced to Aleut basketry and will see

how this art reflects the culture that produces it. Using a

simple basket weave, they make a woven paper mat.

After studying basket medallion decoration, they will

decorate the surface of the weave with a multi-layer

painted pattern of medallions. These weavings are then

mounted on a colored background for display.

Fourth Grade


AMASON’S 3D ANIMALS Materials:

white glue mix (3/4 cup glue + ¼

cup water)

paper plates or bowls for mixing

glue and toilet paper together

toilet paper 4 ft. per student (thin,

school type TP is best)


5” x 7” water color paper

watercolor paints

water cups

paintbrushes

glue stick

Product: 3D watercolor portrait of an animal or bird

indigenous to Kodiak

Students learn about the Aleut artist Alvin Amason. He

grew up in Kodiak and was influenced by the land,

water, and animals of the region. Students will create a

3D watercolor portrait of an animal or bird indigenous to

Kodiak. Using a paper and glue sculpting materials, the

animals’ features become 3D.

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: ART FROM THE EARTH Materials:

camera, digital or Polaroid

journals or journal page

pencil

tape

natural outdoor area, any season

Product: Art that is created from nature and recorded by

a photo and writing

Students will study Andy Goldsworthy, a British artist

who transforms nature into art, photographs it, and lets it

return to nature. They will go outside to create art from

only nature. Photos and notes are then entered in a

journal. (Works well at Twin Bears and similar areas.)

A NEW WAY TO TRAVEL Materials:


water-based marking pens,

assorted colors

water-based marking pens, thick

black

water-based marking pens, thin

black

scissors

glue

Product: A drawing of an "invented" form of

transportation made by combining bits and parts of cars,

trains, bikes, etc.

Students are provided with visual options and choices as

they design a new vehicle.

ANTLERS: OBSERVE LIKE O’KEEFFE Materials:

Construction paper, white & black

Glue sticks

Pencil (for signing only)

Water cups

(one per

every two

students)

Product: Drawings of antlers.

Students practice their observational drawing skills by

studying antlers/horns in a still-life format. They learn

the biological difference between antlers and horns, and

see them featured in some of Georgia O’Keeffe’s

paintings. Students then use color theory with watercolor

pencil drawings, and transform them into painted

sketches.

Fourth Grade


ART IN THE ROUND Materials:

oil pastels

construction paper: black, white

and gray

Product: A circular, patterned oil pastel design

Students are introduced to the ancient round art forms of

the Celtic, North American Indian, and Tibetan cultures.

Working in a circular format with geometric shapes and

patterns, they will create a round oil pastel design.

ATHLETES IN MOTION Materials:


glue

scissors

Product: A cut-paper and stamped collage using prepared

papers

Students will learn about the Arctic Winter Games and

create an artwork that depicts one of the competitive

indoor sports. Students will focus on what a body looks

like when playing their chosen sport and use pre-cut

flexible shapes to create the various body positions

through a stamping technique.

AURORA SILHOUETTES Materials:

oil pastels


glue

scissors

Product: A cut-paper and oil pastel collage

Students will learn what causes the Aurora Borealis:

Earth’s magnetic field and the Sun combine to create

these amazing lights seen at both the North and South

Poles. Students will also learn about the local aurora

photographer, LeRoy Zimmerman. They will look at

auroras and imagine them as figures dancing above the

Earth. After creating prepared paper using oil pastels,

students will design a figure just like the Aurora

Borealis.

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART: COLORS FROM THE EARTH (2 PARTS) Materials:

construction paper: black, tan,

gray and brown

chalk, charcoal and earth-tones

glue

scissors

Product: A drawing of desert reptiles using a pencil and

traditional chalk colors to create designs and patterns in

the Australian Aboriginal style

A reptile is drawn and patterned using pencil and chalk;

cut-out and framed. Symbols from Australian Aboriginal

Dreamtime stories are hidden in contour dots using

Earth-tone colors in the chalk and construction paper.

Fourth Grade


BEARDON MOOD COLLAGES Materials:

9" x 12" and 12” x 18” construction

paper, assorted colors

glue or glue sticks

wallpaper samples, assortment

scissors

pencils

photocopied faces (masters

included)

Product: A collage portrait that expresses a mood

Students are introduced to the African American heritage

of artist Romare Beardon and his work. Using his

example, they will explore the use of facial expression,

color, shape, and texture. They will then compose a

collage portrait that expresses a mood.

BEARING MESSAGES WITH ALVIN AMASON Materials:

9" x 9" square paper, white

11” x 7” rectangle paper, white

paper scraps, white

pencil

scissors

white glue

crayon or China marker, black

watercolor set

brush

water cup

paper towel

phone wire, 10" length

Product: A drawing of a painted bear in the style of Alvin

Amason. The bear’s head is a cut-out, a message is

written on the bottom, and 3-D appendages are added

Students will look at Oscar Scared Him with His Icon, a

whimsical painting of a bear by Alvin Amason. They will

learn the story behind the title, and then create their own

painted bear with words and three-dimensional additions,

in Alvin’s style.

BIG WHOPPERS: FROM ALASKAN GARDENS & FARMS Materials: (One per student)

6" x 9" practice papers, manila

AND white

7-1/2" x 10-1/2" paper, manila OR

white (student's choice)


(for mounting art)

watercolor box

paint brush, #7

water, small

container

fine tip marker,

black

Product: A watercolor painting of a large Alaskan

vegetable/plant that becomes a cartoon-style drawing

Students learn about Summer Solstice and the meaning

of the term, "land of the Midnight Sun." They observe

that in the Circumpolar North, the tilt of the earth in

relation to the sun contributes to the growth of big

whopper farm/garden plants. Students use the Sumi-e

style paint an Alaskan whopper garden plant in one

color, then use a black marker to turn their whopper

garden plant into a whopper story that further emphasizes

how large the plant is.

Fourth Grade


BIRD DRAWING WITH BILL BERRY Materials:

pencils, large, no erasers (Big-

Dipper™ red for beginners work

best)

copier paper or newsprint

Product: Several quick sketches and one detailed sketch

Students will participate in a sketching session using life-

mounted birds as models.

BIRD FRIENDS OF CREAMERS FIELD Materials:

newsprint paper (as a work mat)

5” x 8” watercolor paper

1-1/2” x 3” watercolor paper

copier paper (for sketching)

scissors

pen, black

paintbrushes

watercolor paints: blue, red, brown,

and black

salt

ornament hangers or paper clips

liquid glue

bird drawing sample (one included)

bird template (for drawing-

included)

Creamer’s Field address (P.O. Box 81065,

Fairbanks, AK, 99708)

Product: Bird mobiles using prepared paper

Students will create bird mobiles after creating prepared

watercolor paper. Alaskan artist Rie Munoz will

influence the way the students will draw and detail their

artwork. The mobiles will be given to the Friends of

Creamer’s Field as a community service project and as a

gesture of appreciation.

BIRD SCULPTURES WITH JANLEE IRVING Materials:

plaster gauze strips

scissors

watercolor paints

1/2” wide masking tape

newspaper

paper towels

Product: A 3-D bird sculpture made from aluminum foil

armature and plaster gauze strips

Students will learn about Fairbanks fiber artist, Janlee

Irving. They will then construct an aluminum foil

armature of a bird and coat the armature with plaster

gauze. The birds are then painted with watercolor paints

to resemble local Fairbanks birds.

BUTTERFLY PAPER SCULPTURE/SYMMETRY Materials:

Construction Paper, assorted colors:

o 6” x 9” (for wings- four per

student)

3” x 9” (for body-one per student)

2” x 12” (for legs-three per student)

construction paper scraps, small

(for patterns-three per student)

oil pastels

scissors

glue

Product: A mounted paper-sculpture butterfly with

symmetrical patterning, oil pastel, and cut-paper details

Students will learn about French designer E.A. Seguy,

who used butterflies for inspiration in fabric and

wallpaper design. They will study symmetry and then,

using paper, create their own butterfly.

Fourth Grade


BUZZING AROUND ALASKA Materials:

6” x 4” cardboard, recycled

8-1/2” x 5-1/2” construction paper

assorted colors


black

5-1/2” x 4-1/4” copier paper, white

washable paint, black

4-1/2” x 6” peel and stick foam

brayers

laminate scraps, recycled

phonebook pages, recycled

pencils

mechanical pencil tips (for

texturing)

masking tape

Product: A display of insect prints along with the printing

plate and original drawing

Students will draw the basic structural components of an

Alaskan insect to make a foam and cardboard printing

plate. They will then create prints using black paint and

construction paper. It is presented showing all four steps

of the printing process.

Fourth Grade


CAKES WITH THIEBAULD: PAINTER Materials:

tempera paint cakes: red, orange,

green, blue, yellow, purple and

white (students choose one color

and white)

1/2” easel brushes


black



scissors

glue

Product: Painted Pop-Art cakes on cut-paper stands

Students will learn about the many careers of one artist,

Wayne Thiebaud. He was a cartoonist, scene designer,

sign painter, graphic artist, teacher and painter! He is most

famous for his Pop-Art painting of pies and cakes.

Students will paint their own Pop-Art cakes, learning

about light sources and values.

CALDER CONTOUR WIRE PORTRAITS Materials:


assorted colors


or black

thin wire, plastic-covered

paper scraps, torn

scissors

masking tape

white glue

Product: A contour wire portrait in the style of Alexander

Calder

Students will learn about Alexander Calder as a person

and an artist. They will practice contour line drawing and

look at examples of Calder’s sculptures. Students will

form a self-portrait out of flexible wire and mount it on

construction paper.

CALLIGRAPHY This appreciation kit includes examples in a variety of

calligraphy styles, background information, a set of

calligraphy pens, and practice sheets to copy for student

use.

CARTOONING IN STAGES Materials:

pencils

ink pens, black

copier paper


Product: A cartoon character

Students will learn about cartooning, and then will

develop their own character(s) to make a comic strip.

Extra activities included.

Fourth Grade


COMPLEMENTARY COLOR DESIGNS Materials:


scissors

glue

Product: A dazzling 2-D designs using only a pair of

complementary colors

After exploring the unique relationship of complementary

colors, including their positions on the color wheel and

the phenomenon of after-image, students will explore the

interplay of these colors by creating a cut-paper design

using only one pair of complementary colors.

COMPUTER BUGS Materials:


5-1/2” x 8-1/2” constructions

paper, black

glue

scissors

Product: Cut-paper insect collage using prepared paper

Students will learn about the history of the microchip and

the applications of how it is used in scientific research.

Students create a cut-paper insect from insect silhouettes

using prepared paper that contain enlarged images from

microchips. Students’ insects will include a small

microchip which contains artwork.

Fourth Grade


DEEP SPACE Materials:

oil pastels

glue


black


and sizes

Product: A paper collage showing planets in space

Students will look at the art of abstract artist Wassily

Kandinsky, especially his paintings Several Circles,

#323. By learning how to create deep space with the

shading of circles, students will learn how to create their

own imaginary solar systems.

DENALI LANDSCAPE PRINTS Materials:

index cards

construction paper

printmaking ink

brayer

plate

newspaper

Product: Four Denali landscape color prints, including

the mountain Denali (also known as Mt. McKinley)

Students will study a painting by Alaskan artist Byron

Birdsall and other artists’ paintings of mountains. Then

they will cut and print their own plate.

Fourth Grade


ESCHER

In this appreciation kit, students will learn about M.C.

Escher, an architect and illusionist who used

mathematical structures in his art. Students will explore

the concept of tessellations and symmetry. Activities for

center and groups included.

EXPLORING PERSPECTIVE (UNIT) Materials:

Lesson 1 (Near and Far):

copied cartoon drawing page

markers, chisel-tip, black

pencils

construction paper

glue

scissors

lesson extension reproducible and

visuals (included in kit)

Lesson 2 (Vanishing Point):

copied practice drawing sheet and

final drawing sheet

ruler, straight edge

pencil

crayons



Lesson 3 (Atmospheric)

construction paper

markers, chisel-tip, black

glue

scissors

crayons



various shape templates and white

crayons (included in kit)

Product:

Lesson 1: Exaggerated “near and far” drawing with

cartoonist Chad Carpenter

Lesson 2: Train track drawing featuring the horizon and

vanishing point

Lesson 3: Peter Max style landscape featuring all unit

perspective techniques with the addition of atmospheric

perspective

Students learn how artists create the illusion of deep, 3D

space using the rules of perspective.

Lesson 1 (Near and Far):

This features Alaskan cartoon artist Chad Cooper with an

exaggerated use of perspective.

Lesson 2 (Vanishing Point):

This is more technical as students learn how to “trick the

eye” through use of a vanishing point.

Lesson 3 (Atmospheric): This uses knowledge from the previous lessons, plus the

effects of Earth’s atmosphere on distant objects. In this

lesson pop artist Peter Max inspires students to

experiment with color.

Fourth Grade


FAIRBANKS CENTENNIAL BRIDGE Materials

1/2“ x 12” construction paper

strips, assorted colors


scissors

glue

Product: An abstract bridge design using 100 pieces of

paper

Students will learn about the Centennial Bridge from the

earliest stages to completion and dedication. Alaska

Native artist, Ron Senungetuk, was commissioned to

incorporate artwork into this landmark. Students will use

his artistic style to create an abstract work of art using

100 pieces of paper with the theme of bridges.


oil pastels

brushes

pencils

rulers

scissors


paper towels








FRACTURED TIME (2 PARTS) Materials:



glue

Product: A dramatic paper and foil design based on the

parts and symbols of a clock

Students will learn a technique called repoussé in this

lesson. They create a design using positive and negative

space, texture, line, and shape. The inspiration comes

from looking at the insides of a clock. Supplies are basic,

but the product is quite dramatic. Students will also look

at a recent local art installation by artists Keith Appel and

Harold Balazs, and use their design concepts in this

lesson.

Fourth Grade


HANGING PATTERNED SCULPTURES (2 PARTS) Materials:

banner paper, white

water-based markers, colored

pipe cleaners

hole punch

glue

Product: A stuffed, decorated, hanging paper sculpture

Students are introduced to Fairbanks sculptor Karen

Lowell. They will explore the variety of forms and

patterns she uses in her work. Finally, a class sculpture is

made of large stuffed paper forms decorated with

patterns.

HOKUSAI: BLOOMS, BIRDS, AND BUGS Materials:

9”x 12” manila sketching paper


black, medium blue, dark blue,

pink, peach


green, medium green

Scissors

Glue sticks

Pencils

Markers, thin-line felt-tip

Crayons

Product: A layered collage of cut-paper

botanical shapes and a bird or bug drawing.

In this art lesson, students create stunning,

nature-inspired designs based on the Ukiyo-e

prints and paintings of Katsushika Hokusai.

Positive and negative space are considered as a botanical

collage is assembled. A bird or bug drawing enhances the

design by adding movement and interest to the

composition.

HOKUSAI INSECTS: JAPANESE PRINTS Materials:


3" x 9" construction paper, any

color

scissors

glue

Q-tip™

printmaking ink, black

printmaking rollers/brayers (at

least two)

Product: Mounted insect prints done with a paper

printing plate

Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese printmaker, was best

known for his Great Wave of Kanagawa print series.

Hokusai lived a long, very productive life and influenced

many later European painters, especially the French

impressionists. Students will create an insect motif print

in a method used by Japanese school children.

HOKUSAI: TWO VIEWS Materials:



crayons

glue

Product: An accordion-type 3-D art using paint and

crayons

Students will learn about the life of Japanese painter and

printmaker Katsushika Hokusai from the Edo period,

most famous for his 36 views of Mt. Fuji series. Students

will then create their own views of Mt. Fuji using an

optical illusion technique with crayons, focusing on

value and color blending.

Fourth Grade


HOKUSAI’S MANGA: ANIMAL DRAWINGS Materials:

Manila paper

red construction paper

pencils

black fine felt-tip marker

crayons

scissors

glue sticks

Product: An animal drawing with a simple color scheme,

embellished with Japanese-patterned, paper shapes.

Students learn about and explore Hokusai’s Manga, a multi-

volume, comprehensive, artist reference guide created over 200

years ago. Hokusai illustrates how he drew animals by breaking

them into simple shapes and lines. Students sketch and practice

a few of these animals. Then they choose one for a drawing that

is lined with markers and filled in with a simple color scheme.

Finally, the drawing is embellished with repeated shapes cut

from Japanese-patterned paper.

HOKUSAI’S WATERFALL WONDER Materials:

9”x 12” construction paper: white,

black, tan, light green, gray

water cups per group or individual

paper towels

(paints and brushes provided in kit)

Product: A layered waterfall collage made

from painted papers.

Students learn about the artist Hokusai by

viewing artwork from his waterfall series.

While painting prepared papers and assembling

a waterfall collage, students consider their role

and choices as an artist.

Fourth Grade


ILLUMINATED NONSENSE Materials:


crayons (fluorescents are fun!)

watercolor paints

brushes

water cups

scrap paper

pencil

Product: Individual book pages to be mounted on 12" x

18" colored paper or class big book of laminated book

pages

Illuminated manuscript pages from The Book of Kells,

written in the Middle Ages, are the inspiration for

creating book pages with fanciful large first letters.

Letters are done in crayon-resists. Students will write a

nonsense sentence using the included word lists to

illuminate.

INSECT SCULPTURES (2 PARTS) Materials:

plastic overhead projector sheets

(half sheet per student)

pencil

scissors

modeling dough (1" ball per

student)

copier paper, white

Product: A “kinetic” flying insect sculpture

Students will study the basic parts of a flying insect

before creating their own insect sculpture out of plastic,

wire, and clay. Concepts learned will include symmetry

and design. The artist focus for this lesson is American

sculptor Alexander Calder, who is famous for his kinetic

sculptures.

Fourth Grade


JAPANESE FISH PRINTS (2 PARTS) Materials:

watercolor paints

glue

hole punch

salmon printing supplies

(included)

Product: A Japanese wall hanging of a printed salmon

(Gyotaku) with stamped patterns and a watercolor wash

Students will learn about the 18th century printmaker

Katsushika Hokusai. They will then make a print from a

salmon, paint a watercolor wash on the print, and create a

stamped pattern on the end of the papers. Project is

completed with a string for creating a wall hanging in

traditional Japanese style.

JAPANESE POTTERY PATH Materials:



assorted colors

tissue paper scraps

glue, white

watercolor paints

scissors

overhead projector

Product: A round “pottery” plate constructed from paper

using resist-techniques, layering, and watercolors

Students will view a presentation of visual images from

an art installation in Yamagata, Japan. This information

includes some history on the six ancient kilns of Japan.

Students will then create their own “pottery” plate using

pattern, color, and resist-techniques.

JELLY BEAN BOOKS Materials:

4” x 9-1/2“ construction paper,

white

4-1/2” x 2” Astrobright® paper

12” piece of yarn

crepe paper, assorted colors

scissors

glue

pens, black

Product: A color poem using the five senses and a small

“jelly bean” book in which to write original poems

Students will become inspired to write color poems after

listening to poems from Hailstones & Halibut Bones by

Mary O’Neill. They will learn how to make a “jelly

bean” book to publish their color poems.

Fourth Grade


KANDINSKY I & II (2 PARTS)

Part I

Materials:


white

tempera cakes

sponges, small

crayons, black

Part II

Materials:


9" x 12" paper, colored (for

mounting)

Magic Markers™, assorted colors

scissors

glue

Product:

Part I: Product: An improvisational, nonobjective

painting done in the manner of Wassily Kandinsky

Part II: A secret world of fantasy forms and creations

composed and mounted on a colored construction paper

background

Part I: Students will look at paintings by the 20th

century artist Wassily Kandinsky, focusing on his

Improvisation series. Using similar kinds of lines,

shapes, and colors students create their own

"improvisational art."

Part II: Students will look at the paintings by the 20th

Century artist Wassily Kandinsky, focusing on the last

period of his life, his Pan's period. This last body of

Kandinsky's work is made up of fanciful imaginary

forms and creatures, very detailed and very colorful.

Using similar forms, colors, and lines, students create

their own "secret worlds."

KANDINSKY’S SECRET WORLD Materials:

Construction paper: white & black

Copy paper: red, yellow, blue,

green, purple, and orange (any

shade)

Fine black felt-tip markers

Markers & crayons, variety of colors

Glue sticks

scissors

Product: Collage of abstract artwork

Students explore shape and color as they learn about

abstract artist and art professor Wassily Kandinsky. They

create cut paper, marker, and crayon

collages while they experience making

many choices as an artist. After viewing

and creating abstract art, students

understand that each viewer may see their

own secret world within abstract artwork.

Fourth Grade


LANGUAGE OF BIRCH BARK Materials:

pencils

scissors

glue sticks

two-hole punchers

rubber bands


brown, dark brown and brown

9” x 12” newsprint

felt-tip markers, black

crayons: brown, black, apricot and

white

birch twigs or skewers

Product: A “birch bark” book textured with cut paper

artwork

Students create a “birch bark” nature book by learning

how to make birch bark rubbings to create textured

covers. They will learn how to make bindings, and

create cut paper artwork similar to North American

native patterns and designs. They will use their nature

books to record their newly learned vocabulary about the

birch tree.

LET’S MEASURE ‘ROUND Materials:

7" squared construction paper, black

5" squared construction paper, white

and assorted colors

6" squared construction paper, white

and assorted

colors

glue stick

pencil

scissors

Product: A symmetrical or asymmetrical circular drawing

done with colored pencil

Students view art by Robert and Sonia Delaunay to see how

these artists use geometric shapes and bright colors in their

artwork. Students learn how to draw straight lines using a

'straight edge' tool, review how to find fractions of an inch on

a ruler, and draw circles with a compass. Circles are arranged

in a concentric pattern and a design is created with bright

colored pencil.

Fourth Grade


MAGIC CARPETS Materials:

Construction paper, assorted colors:

o 2” x 9”

o 7” x 10”

o 9” x 12”


6” x 8-1/2” copier paper, bright

colors

glue

scissors

oil pastels

Product: A cut-paper Persian carpet

Students will take a ride on a magic carpet and learn

about the origins of the Persian rug. They will cut a

design from paper and create their own magic carpet.

MASKS: MAKING THE UNSEEN SEEN Materials:

Super Dough™ modeling clay


glue

scissors

Product: Miniature masks are created from modeling

dough with wire, feathers, and found objects

Students will learn about and look at masks from Alaska

Native cultures. They will then learn how to mix neutral

colors from the primary colors using modeling dough.

After creating three neutral colors, students will create a

miniature mask, embellished with wire, feathers, beads,

and found objects.

MATISSE CUTOUTS Materials


blue, yellow, violet, green, purple

and black


blue, yellow, violet, green, purple

and black

scissors

glue

Product: A cut-paper design

Students will study Matisse's cut-paper art and his later

life.

MAYAN DESIGNS! Materials:

glue

scissors

rulers

pencils

chalk pastels

markers, bright bold colors

9” x 9” construction paper, orange

and blue


Product: Mayan textile patterns and design on a 9” x 9”

construction paper

Inspired by Abuela’s Weave by Omar S. Casteneda,

students will use colored markers and grid paper to make

and cut out Mayan textile patterns to complement ancient

mythological designs drawn with chalk on construction

paper.

Fourth Grade


ME IN WORDS Materials:




scissors

glue sticks

pencils

Product: A sculptural book using newspaper to create

self-portraits

Students will create sculptural books that have an

accordion spine. This fan-like fold allows the

complementary pages to crisscross. The pages leave room

for students to display non-fiction information about

themselves in a sequence of events. The book covers are

self-portraits made from colorful newspaper pieces.

MISSION: SPACE VOYAGER Materials:


glue stick

scissors

Product: A 3D sculpture of an imaginary space

exploration vehicle

Students will learn about NASA space missions and

embark on an integrated lesson that involves designing,

building, and displaying a small sculpture that represents

an imaginary space exploration vehicle. This lesson

models the STEAM approach to an integrated art lesson.




100)


200 (1/2 box of 400 from A&W

Wholesale)



between two)


scissors


colors (just tons!)





descriptions of planets in our solar system, and then create

three-dimensional forms from paper that relate to their

understanding of the planets’ attributes. They attach their

planetary forms to their mobile in their solar order, while

simultaneously making constant adjustments to the many

fulcrum points to help their sculpture balance and move.





drawing paper

construction paper


pencils

glue sticks


Students will learn the basics of drawing and color mixing

as they create a pastel landscape of Mt. McKinley.

Fourth Grade


O’KEEFFE: ALASKAN LANDSCAPES Materials:

12" x 15" white paper

construction paper strips, assorted

colors

oil pastels

scissors

glue

Product: A mounted oil pastel landscape inspired by

photos of Alaska

Georgia O’Keeffe had a very interesting life and a unique

and personal style. She is known for painting very large

close-ups of flowers and for colored landscapes of New

Mexico. Students will study her life and landscape work

and paint their own landscape in oil pastels. Inspiration

will come from photographs of Alaskan hills and

mountains.

O’KEEFFE: BONES (2 PARTS) Materials:


black

glue

tempera paint cakes

Product: A “bone” painting using values and intensities

of a pair of complementary colors

Students will study Georgia O’Keeffe’s reproductions,

noting her use of color and subject matter. Since she

often used bones as a theme, students will explore value

and intensity relationships (using complementary colors

and white) to paint their bone designs.

O’KEEFFE: PAINTER Materials:

water

brushes

poster paints

paper towels


Product: A large painting of a butterfly

Students will look at Georgia O'Keeffe's painting and

create a close-up view of a butterfly in the style of her

close-up views of flowers.

OLANNA’S ARCTIC ANIMAL PRINTS Materials:

printmaking ink, black


copier paper, assorted colors (for

printing)

glue

scissors

pencil OR ball point pen

copies of shapes (master included)

Styrofoam™ plate, small

Product: A mounted print of an arctic animal on colored

paper with printing plate attached

Melvin Olanna was an Inupiaq carver from Shishmaref,

Alaska. His bronze Nanook sculpture can be seen in front

of Patty Gym at UAF. He is well known all over the

Pacific Northwest, mostly for his sculpture, but also for

woodcut prints of the arctic animals he lived around.

Students will make a print based on a legend from the

Shishmaref area.

Fourth Grade


OLANNA’S PAPER SCULPTURES Materials:


assorted colors

glue

scissors

hole punch

oil pastels or crayons

Product: A 3D paper animal sculpture mounted on a

background representing the animal’s habitat

Students will learn about the life of Melvin Olanna, an

Alaskan Native artist best known for his carvings and

sculptures. After looking at silhouettes of Arctic animals,

students will draw or trace the animals on white

construction paper and cut out the drawings. They will

then “score” the animal shape to create a three-

dimensional effect. Details are kept to a minimum to best

represent the simplistic art of Olanna. Animals are then

mounted on a background of colored construction paper

working with positive and negative shapes, landforms,

and habitat.

ONE CUP CUPCAKES Materials:

paper drinking cups

masking tape or scotch tape

4” x 5-1/2” railroad board

corrugated bulletin board edges


pencils

liquid glue

scissors

Product: A 3D cupcake sculpture

Students will glean ideas from Wayne Thiebaud and

Claes Oldenberg as artists who transformed food into

fine art. Students will express their creativity through

building 3D cupcakes to use as their blank canvas for

decoration.

Fourth Grade




papermaking.

PLANT DRAWING Materials:

thin-tip markers



Product: An oval framed, ink-line drawing of a plant

Students will closely observe and draw real plants

enclosed in this kit.


sketchbooks

colored pencils


bird drawings






PORTRAITS WITH TEXTURE & MOOD (2 PARTS) Materials:

liquid tempera paint: red, blue,

yellow, magenta and white


7” x 10” poster board

masking tape

glue

Product: Expressive and colorful portrait

Students will experience painting a portrait using thick

paint and a palette knife, keeping in mind mood and

emotion while they work. The portraits are then

compared to other artist’s portraits with various moods.

Students will have an opportunity to discuss the

similarities and differences.



and sizes

scissors

glue

markers, black







Fourth Grade


QUASICRYSTALS Materials:

glue

die-cut shapes; wide and narrow

rhombuses, square

10” x 10” construction paper, red


black

Product: A matted 2-D cut paper math pattern block

design

Students will learn that Dan Schechtman is the 2011

Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for discovering

quasicrystals. Their artwork will reflect the structures of

crystals that have non-repeating patterns. They will use

paper math pattern blocks to show movement, a circular

structure, and three boxes to make their 2D work look

3D.

Fourth Grade


RACHEL CARSON’S SILENT SPRING Materials:

watercolor paper

watercolors

pen, black

masking tape

salt


Product: A watercolor and color theory of plant paintings

showing the effect of pollution and pesticides on living

organisms

Students will learn about Rachel Carson, author,

biologist, and ecologist. Her book Silent Spring brought

about the banning of D.D.T.

REVIEW THE ART ELEMENTS: STILL LIFE (2 PARTS) Materials:

11" x 17" heavy paper, white

markers, black and assorted colors


colored

glue (for mounting)

Product: A colorful still life done in markers

After a discussion of the art elements: B line, shape,

color, and texture, and how the French artist Henri

Matisse used them to create his exciting still life

paintings, students will do their own still life looking at

the fruits, flowers, teapot, and fabrics in the kit.

ROMARE BEARDEN: MOOD COLLAGES Materials:

9” x 12” and 12” x 18” construction


Glue sticks

Scissors

Photo-copied design paper (one per

student)

Photo-copied faces (three per

student)

Product: Students will compose a collage that expresses a

mood.

Students are introduced to African

American artist Romare Bearden and his

work. Using his example of artwork,

students explore the use of facial

expression, color, shape, and texture when

composing a collage that expresses a

mood.

RON SENUNGETUK (3 LESSONS) Materials:

Lesson 1 (Interpretive Shapes):


dark brown, tan, and white


and brown

Glue sticks

Scissors

Sharpie markers,

black (and brown if available)

Lesson 2 (Migration Interpretation):

Product: Lesson 1 – Cropped-paper college of Alaskan

animals.

Lesson 2 – Drawing of Alaskan animals migration.

Lesson 3 – Artwork with concentric-circle design and

implied texture.

Lesson 1 (Interpretive Shapes):

Students will be introduced to the work of artist Ron

Senungetuk, a nationally recognized sculptor, metalsmith,

and carver from Wales, Alaska. Students will use simple

cropping tools to recompose photographs of Alaskan

animals. Ultimately, they will develop a cut-paper collage

based on their cropped image explorations.

Fourth Grade


4.5” x 6” and 4” x 5.5” construction

paper: gray and

black

Glue sticks

Colored pencils

Metallic markers (if

possible)

Pencils

Lesson 3 (Concentric Circles):

Construction paper:

o 4” x 11.5” white paper

mounted on 4.5” x 12” black

paper (making a frame)

o 4.5” x 4.5”, any color

o 0.25” x 4.5” black strips

Continued on the next page…

Crayons: black and white

Pencils

Watercolors

Brushes

Water cups

Scissors

Xeroxes of check sheets

Lesson 2 (Migration Interpretation):

Using a series of Ron Senungetuk’s carved wooden panels

(titled Migration) as inspiration, students will go on to

design their own panel. As reference material, they will

use scientific migration maps of Alaskan animals to re-

interpret and design a mini-panel. Through this process,

students will begin to appreciate how artists can respond

to science, and how art can be used as a vehicle to make

science more accessible to a broader audience.

Lesson 3 (Concentric Circles):

Students will look at Ron Senungetuk’s carved panels,

evaluate how he uses his concentric-circle motif, and

evaluate his use of complementary and monochromatic

colors. Through the systematic use of a reduced stencil,

students will develop their own concentric-circle design,

develop an implied texture (crayon resist), and experiment

with a color palette.

RON SENUNGETUK’S SUNSCAPES Materials:


and brown


and brown

glue sticks

pencils

markers, black

Product: A 2D wood-like textured triptych

Students learn about an Inupiat contemporary artist Ron

Senungetuk. His artwork is based upon Old Bering Sea

ivory carvings that tell stories of life experiences of his

ancestors. Students create wood textured triptychs

showing their drawings of “Swiss Cheese” Arctic

animals, concentric circles, and horizon lines using

crayons and markers.

Fourth Grade







dark green


brown

oil pastels

scissors

glue







construction.

Fourth Grade


SALMON SUMMER IN KODIAK Materials:



assorted colors



wide-tip markers, assorted colors

glue

scissors

Product: A salmon with drawn and colored design

mounted on a watercolor wash background

Students will listen to the book Salmon Summer by Bruce

McMillan. They will learn about subsistence fishing

through the eyes of a nine-year-old Aleut boy who lives

on Kodiak Island. Students will learn how to create a

watercolor wash using color theory to base their color

choices on. They will learn how to create texture on their

painting using salt on the wet wash. They will also create

a design on a cut-out salmon using Pacific Northwest

coast designs or Aleut designs. The salmon are then

glued to the watercolor wash, and mounted on

construction paper.

SENUNGETUK’S REPEATED SHAPES Materials:






2-3/4” x 4-1/4” Astrobright™

paper, complementary colors

scissors

pencils

glue sticks

Product: Cut-paper collage in complementary colors

Students will study artwork called Children at Play by

woodworker and silversmith Ron Senungetuk. They will

create collages using cut construction paper in

complementary colors. In Children at Play, kids can be

seen joining hands as they move through the artwork

surrounded by repeated organic and geometric shapes.

SHELLS IN OIL PASTEL Materials:

oil pastels

pencil

ruler


shells (included)

9" x 9" paper, colored (for

mounting)

Product: An oil pastel drawing of two shells, each from

two angles

After looking at Georgia O'Keeffe paintings and close up

photographs of shells, students will draw two different

shells in two views, then paint their patterns and textures

using oil pastels.

Fourth Grade


SNOWFLAKES: RADIAL SYMMETRY Snowflake Print Materials:

clear overheads (one per student)

Elmer’s Glue-All™

masking tape

printing brayer(s)

printing ink, white and silver

newsprint


colors


and white

Cut-Paper Snowflake Design Materials:

scissors

glue

8-1/2” x 11” copier paper, white

construction paper, assorted warm and

cool colors

Product:

Two silvery snowflake prints from a dried glue line

printing plate mounted on construction paper

And a radial cut-paper snowflake design on construction

paper or on translucent paper

Students will build on their knowledge of geometry and

radial symmetry through studying snowflakes. They will

use the beauty of radial symmetry as a foundation for two

art projects. A follow-up worksheet to use with geometry

templates is included to reinforce the art/math connection.

SOLAR SCULPTURE Materials:


construction and copier paper, strips

and squares, assorted bright colors

scissors

glue

paint, white

sponges

piece of acetate

found objects to print

Product: A low-relief paper sculpture solar system with

stamped/painted details

The illusion of creating space on a two-dimensional

surface is explored by looking at a painting by Wassily

Kandinsky and several solar system paintings. Students

will then create their own solar system with construction

paper and stamped/painted details.

SPIRIT MASKS Materials:

scissors

glue

markers

construction paper

metallic paper

6" pieces of 1/8" dowel or tongue

depressors (three to five per

student)

6"-7" paper plates (one per student)

tape

Product: A spirit mask representing the students,

showing things important to them around the edges

Students will learn about traditional Yup’ik masks and

their construction and meaning. They are introduced to

contemporary Alaska Native mask makers’ work, and

then produce their own spirit mask about things that are

important to their lives.

Fourth Grade


STATUTE OF LIBERTY (2 PARTS) Materials:

liquid tempera: blue, yellow, red

and black

9-1/2” x 17” poster board


assorted colors

Product: A sponge-painted silhouette of the Statue of Liberty

Students will learn about the history of the Statue of Liberty,

its sculptor, the immigrants, and the many artistic

interpretations made through the years. Once considered to be

the largest statue in the world, the Statue of Liberty holds the

promise of freedom and hope. Students will use a stenciling

technique and a monochromatic color scheme to create a

dynamic painting.

STOMP TO THE MUSIC Materials:



black (three per student)

watercolor sets

oil pastels, white

newspapers

scissors

glue

Product: A watercolor rhythm painting in warm or cool

colors

Students will interpret the creative energy provided by the

musical Stomp Out Loud while exploring rhythm,

movement, and texture. They will create a work of art

showing the lines and rhythms made by ordinary sounds,

such as sweeping brooms and trash cans. They will use

repeated lines, shapes, and color to let their art be

“heard!”

STORYKNIFING OUR SYMBOLS Materials:


9” x 12” art tissue, white (two per

student)

staplers

blank transparencies

Vis-a-Vis™ marker

Product: A layered foldable booklet

Students will learn about storyknifing, a traditional

Yup’ik custom of storytelling using abstract symbols to

represent settings, characters, and action in the story.

Layered flip-up books are created so students can record

their key of symbols, and have a place to draw symbols

they have chosen to tell their own stories.

Fourth Grade


TOLERANCE BANNERS Materials:


white and black

3” x 9” paper strips, white and

black

6” x 6” paper squares

7” x 7” paper triangles

6” x 9” paper rectangles

glue

scissors

24” piece of yarn

Product: A paper banner using the “Notan” paper cutting

technique with designs in both positive and negative

shapes

Students will learn about the six artists who were asked

to develop flags communicating the theme tolerance,

sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific,

and Cultural Organization. Students will then create their

own banners using the Japanese paper cutting technique

called Notan. This technique focuses on positive and

negative composition.

Fourth Grade


VALUE OF INSECTS, THE Materials:

scrap paper for cleaning off

stomps

half sheet of 9" x

12" construction

paper: red, orange

and/or brown

hand held erasers

Product: A shaded drawing of a enlarged section of an

insect in the style of Georgia O'Keefe

Students look closely at an insect in the manner of an

entomologist and the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. They will

learn to start a drawing by outlining the spaces around

the object first, and then the major shapes of the insect.

Pencil shading is added after learning to make a value

scale. Details are added last of all, including use of the

stomp and eraser as drawing tools.




included.

Fourth Grade


WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP: WET-ON-WET Materials:



watercolor paint

brush

paper towels

pencil

objects to draw

glue

drawing board

Product: A wet-on-wet watercolor painting over pencil

drawing

Students will explore watercolor media through

observation of work of well-known painters, practicing

techniques, and creating paintings.




1-2-3 Henri Matisse Design

Abstract Animal Paintings

African Textile Designs (revised)

Amason Animal Portraits


Amason's Whimsical Animals

Barn Art Reflections

Beetles: Positive & Negative Shapes

Bicycles: Math on the Move

Brainstorm!

Cans, Cans, Cans: Andy Warhol, Graphic Artist

Cassatt, Mary: American Impressionist

Claire Fejes: A Visit to the Arctic

Diatoms: Microscopic Jewels

Empty Bowls

Expressive Color Portraits

Flags with Personal Symbols

Flowers: Paper Sculpture Celebrations

Forensic Artists: Facebook

Geometric Forms: Vasarely

Graphic Arts: Packaging the Candy Bar

Henri Rousseau: An Alaskan Rainforest

Hockney Landscapes

Impressionists' Trees

InFORMative Drawing & Shading (unit)

Inside & Outside of Me

Islamic Design Name Plate

Japanese Kimono Design

Jazz Collages: Romare Bearden

Kachina Collages

Landscape Collages

Landscape Drawing

Landscapes: Points of View

Michelangelo's Hands

Macro-Made Ice Worms


Monograms

Museum Curator: What is Art?

Negative/Positive Chair Drawings

New Ways of Using Color (revised)

Newton’s Light Collages

Northern Migrations: Caribou, Cranes & Salmon

Northern Team Spirit: Arctic Winter Games Logo

Oaxacan Patterned Animalitos

Ocean Life Dioramas

Paint Like a Printer

Painting Fairbanks History

Paper Fish Sculptures

Paper Sculpture Techniques

Portraits by Mary Cassatt

Posters of Famous Achievers & Explorers

Printed Paper Birch

Quilts: Colorful Geometry

Ray Troll Salmon Sketches

Trees in Tissue Collage

Two Shoes Monotype

Viewing History

Warhol Blotted Line Prints

Warhol’s Celebrities

Warhol Space Fruit

Warhol Wallpaper

Water Currents

Words of Wisdom Collage

Yup’ik-Style Masks

Yup'ik Linear Patterns






availability






Fifth Grade


1-2-3 HENRI MATISSE DESIGN Materials:

• construction paper, assorted colors

• 12" x 18" paper, white

• scissors

• glue

Product: A cut-paper design in Henri Matisse’s style

based on the students’ own theme

Students will look at and analyze the design of the cut-

shape artwork of Henri Matisse. They will use his

structure to create cut-shape art related to their own

themes.

ABSTRACT ANIMAL PAINTINGS Materials:

• tempera cakes

• easel brush

• water cup

• 18” x 18” paper squares, white

Product: A painted animal portrait

Students will look at Dutch artist Karel Appel’s paintings

and discuss how abstract art is created. They will set up

studios in the classroom and paint animal portraits using

large colored shapes.

AFRICAN TEXTILE DESIGNS Materials:

6” x 6”, 8” x 8”, and 9” x 9” paper,

various colors

One per student:

o Glue sticks

o Scissors

o Fine point black felt tip

marker

o 3” x 3” scrap cardboard

o Masking tape- about 4”

strips

o Piece of paper towel

Product: Students create printed and patterned art in the

traditional square format of West African textile design.

The project begins with the creation of individual stamps

to be used in the printing process.

Printed and dyed cloth is fundamental in

traditional Ghanaian and Nigerian

cultures as a form of communication.

The symbols in print patterns, as well as color, are used

to share information about an individual or event or tell a

story. As Africans were brought to America, these

traditions came with them, as happens with all cultures

that make up our American culture. It is believed this

same form of communication was used to create the

freedom quilts that escaped slaves looked for in their

quest for freedom.

Fifth Grade


AMASON ANIMAL PORTRAITS (UNIT) Materials:

Lesson 1 (Eyes on You)

construction paper

oil pastels

glue

pencils

Lesson 2 (What a Face)

construction paper

oil pastels

glue

scissors

pencils

Lesson 3 (Welcome to my World)

construction paper

crepe paper (sheets, not rolls)

liquid glue

scissors

pencils

Product: Enlarged and exaggerated image of an animal eye

with an emphasis on the reflected light

Close up of an animal face starting with simple geometric

shapes, including the exaggerated eyes

Continuing lesson two and adding a 3-D muzzle with crepe

paper

Students will learn about Alvin Amason, a Native

Alutiiq/Sugpiaq Alaskan, and his unique style of animal

portraiture.

Lesson 1: Students will be introduced to Amason’s use of

expressive vs. realistic color, and his use of a highlight in the

eyes that makes them look alive and 3-D.

Lesson 2: Students continue to practice what they learned in

lesson one, with the addition of using simple geometric shapes

to help create major facial features. Additionally, students

learn that Amason like to do something called “breaking the

border,” which students will do in a simplified form.

Lesson 3: Students will continue with what they learned in

previous lessons, with the addition of a 3-D muzzle

constructed of crepe paper.



cup water)







watercolor paints

water cups

paintbrushes

glue stick









AMASON’S WHIMSICAL ANIMALS Materials:

tempera or washable paint

1” easel brushes

water cups

12" x 18" newsprint

paper towels

Product: A large painting of an Alaskan animal

Students will learn about Alvin Amason's painting style,

paint a boldly colored animal and write an elaborate

whimsical title on it.

Fifth Grade





pencil

tape



a photo and writing








glue

scissors


papers







Fifth Grade


BARN ART REFLECTIONS Materials:

7" x 10" construction paper, warm

and cool colors

6" x 9" photocopy paper, white

block ink, black

pencils

scissors

glue sticks


recycled laminate scrap/sheets of

transparencies

recycled

newspaper/newsprint/phone books

paint sets, watercolor

paint brushes, 1/2"

masking tape

Product: A barn silhouette monoprint on a watercolor

backdrop

Students will learn that folk art is important to America's

art history and heritage. They will view folk art paintings

of country scenes and barn structures before drawing to

create a printing plate on foam board. A warm watercolor

wash will be the backdrop for a

barn silhouette print reflecting, as a

ghost onto cool colors. Students

will recognize and discuss

Creamer's Dairy as a reflection of

local culture.

BEETLES: POSITIVE & NEGATIVE SHAPES Materials:

paper (e.g., Astrobright®,

construction), assorted colors

sponges

scissors

white glue

tempera cakes

markers, black



Product: A stenciled paint-and-cut paper artwork of

beetles on leaves

Students will depict one aspect of life on land in an

artwork about beetles in an environment. They will think

about positive and negative shapes, then cut a stencil

(negative) and paint leaf shapes (positive), and finally lay

on decorated cut-paper beetles.

BICYCLES: MATH ON THE MOVE Materials:


assorted colors

12” x 18” paper or construction

paper, manila OR white


glue stick

scissors

compass

protractor

Product: An array of bicycle drawings assembled in a

collage style

Students will learn by observing and drawing the many

geometric aspects of one of the noblest inventions: the

bicycle. After observing and sketching bicycles, students

will measure the angles of various bike frames using a

protractor. Students will then discuss the similarities and

differences between the frames and the uses for each type

of bicycle. With a compass and a protractor, students will

create a mechanical drawing of their bicycle. A collage is

created from the various drawings.

Fifth Grade


BRAINSTORM! Materials:

8” x 10” student photo, black and

white

11-1/2” x 8-1/2” construction

paper, black


colored pencils

pencils

Product: An altered self-portrait collage showing drawn

images representing creativity flowing from a popped

open cranium

Creativity is the theme as students are introduced to the

writer and artist Sarah Perry and her book If… Using

altered student photographs, students are engaged in

showing through imagery what creativity looks inside

their brains. Various media are combined to create the

finished product.

Fifth Grade





use.

CANS, CANS, CANS: ANDY WARHOL, GRAPHIC ARTIST Materials:


6” x 12” and 3” x 6” paper, gray

9” x 9” paper, black

6” x 9” paper, colored

paper pieces, small, assortment


markers

scissors

glue

Product: Fanciful cans with a label and contents

Students are introduced to the artist, Andy Warhol,

famous for his Pop-Art paintings of Campbell’s soup

cans. Students will learn that Warhol had a career as a

graphic artist and media maker.


pencils

ink pens, black

copier paper






CASSATT, MARY: AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST Materials:

oil pastels

9” x 12” and 2” x 9” construction

paper


scissors

glue

Product: A background for Mary Cassatt figures

Students will look at portraits painted by Mary Cassatt,

including Portrait of a Young Girl, observing how Mary

Cassatt used paint, pastels, and color. Students will learn

about color-missing, using oil pastels, and create a

background for Mary Cassatt figures.

CLAIRE FEJES: A VISIT TO THE ARCTIC Materials:

12" x 18" drawing paper, white or

manila

paper, black or colored (for

mounting)

markers, black (for drawing)

tempera cakes or watercolor paints

water cups

brushes

glue

Product: A black marker gesture drawing of Arctic

people done from photos, with a touch of color

Students will travel to the Arctic with Claire Fejes,

observing her intimate portrayals of life in northern

Alaskan villages. Simple forms and beautiful colors

characterize the paintings of Claire Fejes, also known for

her extensive journal writings and drawings made during

her travels.

Fifth Grade


DIATOMS: MICROSCOPIC JEWELS Materials:

watercolor paints

construction paper

crayon, black

glue

scissors

Product: A design of a microscopic view of intricate

organisms in watercolor

Students will learn about the Dutch scientist Anton Van

Leeuwenhoek, pioneer in microscopy, and his 17th

century discoveries before looking at photos of beautiful

single-celled diatoms.

Fifth Grade


EMPTY BOWLS Materials:

clay (suitable for firing in a kiln)

Product: A small ceramic bowl

Every year the Fairbanks Food Bank holds a fundraiser

featuring pottery bowls created by the Fairbanks Potter’s

Guild. It was the Potter’s Guild wish to partner with the

schools so students can be involved with this project.

Each student will learn the process of creating a clay

bowl large enough to hold a cup of rice. Through this

project, they will learn what resources are available to

those in need.

ESCHER






EVERYONE DRAWS DIFFERENTLY Materials:


drawing materials, assortment

blank calendar, blank

Product: Individual pictures for a weekly calendar page

Students will look at the differences between many

artists, their subjects, and the materials used. They will

then make a picture of their own for a calendar page.

EXPRESSIONIST EVIRONMENTS Materials:

oil pastels


colors,


colors


colors


colors


colors


scissors

glue

telephone wire

Product: A paper pop-out form filled with line, shape,

color, and texture

Students will look at artist Judy Pfaff and her style of

work. They will use color, shape, line, and texture

creating a three-dimensional environment out of paper.

They will then cut, fold, curl, and bend paper, adding

wire and oil pastel design for detail.

Fifth Grade


EXPRESSIVE COLOR PORTRAITS Materials:

acetate sheet (one per student)

tape

scissors

glue

permanent marker

construction paper (for mounting)

oil pastels

Product: A mounted portrait of another student done with

black marker on acetate with oil pastel expressive color

This lesson explores contour line drawing and the color

ideas of value and intensity. Students will produce a

portrait by tracing lines on acetate taped to Plexiglas®.

These are colored in an expressive manner after looking

at the work of several artists.

Fifth Grade


FLAGS WITH PERSONAL SYMBOLS Materials:

6" x 9" felt, assorted colors

3" x 9" felt, assorted colors

scissors

rulers

white glue

fine-tip felt markers

2" x 6" poster or railroad board

Product: A 9" x 6" felt flag with personal symbols and

reinforced edge for hanging

Students will learn that flags are designed to represent

ideas with symbols, and then they will create a personal

flag. The kit includes many paintings from American

history with flags in them.


oil pastels

brushes

pencils

rulers

scissors


paper towels








FLOWERS: PAPER SCULPTURE CELEBRATIONS Materials:


and assorted colors

thin wire, (floral-type or

telephone)

oil pastels

scissors

glue

Product: A large sculpture of paper flowers with oil

pastel details mounted on 9” x 12” paper

Students will look at large photographs of various

flowers, talk about floral anatomy and variation, and

learn paper sculpture techniques including scoring,

curling, and imbedding wire. They will then create their

own flower sculpture, which is mounted on a gray paper

background.

FORENSIC ARTISTS: FACEBOOK Materials:

construction paper

copy paper

pencils

crayons

Product: A flipbook of faces

The career of a Forensic Artist is spotlighted using a

PowerPoint presentation. After viewing the PowerPoint,

students will create a drawing of a face in proportion,

much like a police sketch artist would. Students will

create a flipbook from their face drawings. These

drawings create a collaborative book by flipping through

different sets of eyes, noses, mouths, etc. to create a new

face each time.

Fifth Grade


GEOMETRIC FORMS: VASARELY Materials:

Construction paper or cardstock

cubes and tetrahedrons, colored

(templates included)

scissors

glue

tape (for hanging-optional)

string (for hanging-optional)

scrap paper, colored

pattern blocks (included)

Product: A paper geometric form decorated with colored

shapes, which can be hung

Students are introduced to the Op-Art of Victor Vasarely,

and will discuss the elements and principles of design to

learn how Vasarely created his illusions.

GRAPHIC ARTS: PACKAGING THE CANDY BAR Materials:

copier paper, 2 sheets

6" masking tape

9" x 12" aluminum foil

6" slice of a newspaper

scissors

glue

erasers

markers, assorted

Product: A paper and foil candy bar wrapped in an

original graphic design wrapper, slightly 3-D

Students will examine graphic design as seen in

commercial packaging of foods. They will then construct

and label a candy bar in paper and foil.

Fifth Grade


HENRI ROUSSEAU: AN ALASKAN RAINFOREST Materials :

Construction paper, one per

student:

o 9” x 12” medium blue

o 9” x 11” dark blue

o 4” x 8” light or medium

green

o 1.5” x 3” light orange

o 3” x 3” light and dark

brown or black and gray

o 2” x 2” light and dark

brown or black and gray

Scissors

Glue stick

Crayons, white and assorted

Product: Students create a 3-D pop-up Alaskan temperate

rainforest scene that demonstrates foreground, midground,

and background space using a variety of symmetrical

cutting and paper folding techniques.

Artist Henri Rousseau had a passion for tropical

rainforest. He did research to learn as much as he could

about these regions of the world, and then used his

imagination to paint many famous pictures. Alaska is

home to one of the largest temperate rainforests that

stretches along the southeast coast. Students learn the

difference between the two types of

rainforests, and look at images of

plants and animals that make the

Alaskan rainforest unique. Students

use their imagination as they include

the very important salmon returning

to their birth streams with a predator

looking for a feast!

HOCKNEY LANDSCAPES Materials:

washable or tempera paint:

magenta, blue and yellow

1” easel brushes (and a smaller

one also)

paper plate, coated-type (for

palette)

colored chalk (one piece per

student)


Product: A large, colorful, landscape painting

David Hockney is a contemporary British-born artist who

has painted colorful, patterned landscapes. Students will

respond to his work and then design a simple landscape

composition with chalk. Using a palette and large brush,

students will mix colors and paint their landscape.

Fifth Grade


IMPRESSIONISTS’ TREES Materials:

tempera or washable paint

1" easel brushes

12" x 24" paper

water cups

paper towels

Product: A large painting of a tree or trees in a landscape

Students will compare the painting styles of three

impressionists, and then paint a tree(s) in a style of their

own.

INFORMATIVE DRAWING & SHADING (UNIT) Materials:

Lesson 1 (cylinder)

pastels, white

crayons, black and sepia

5-1/2” x 8-1/2” construction paper:

tan, light blue, and gray


glue sticks

regular HB #2 classroom pencils

(mechanical pencils are OK)

Lesson 2 (cube, sphere, and cone)

pastels, white

crayons: black, sepia, blue, and red




glue sticks

regular HB #2 classroom or

mechanical pencils

Lesson 3 (geometric still life)

HB #2 pencils

6B pencils

charcoal pencils, white (your

school has a primary and

intermediate drawing tub in the

library, which contain lots of art

pencils)

pastels, white




glue sticks

Product:

Lesson 1: Pencil, crayon, and pastel drawing

Lesson 2: Pencil, crayon, and pastel drawing

Lesson 3: Pencil and pastel drawing

Lesson 1: Students will learn how to

systematically draw and shade a cylinder

and/or tube. The skills learned in this lesson translate to

drawing other geometric forms. Once these classic

drafting skills have been mastered, students will be able

to rely on this proficiency when sketching from life

(which is the all-time best way to get better at drawing),

when drawing from imagination, and when making

digital drawings (consider trying the iPad app: Drawing

Box).

Lesson 2: Students will learn how to

systematically draw and shade a cube, sphere

and cone. The skills learned in this lesson are

transferable to drawing everyday objects,

cityscapes, landscapes, and imagined images.

Students will be given guided practice

through direct instruction alternated with

independent practice.

Lesson 3: Students will put all their new rendering skills

to work through drawing a fantasy still life composed of

any three of the four forms that they have learned to draw

this year.

Fifth Grade


INSIDE & OUTSIDE OF ME Materials:




assorted colors

1” x 4” paper, bright colored

scissors

glue

rubber stamps with stamp pad

copied words and alphabets

Product: An inside and outside self-portrait in words,

color, and pattern about the students own unique qualities

Students will examine the work and words of four “artist

heroes” who dared to be themselves and drew artistic

strength from their own qualities and beliefs. Students

will investigate the concept of tolerance through creating

an artwork about their own unique qualities.

ISLAMIC DESIGN NAME PLATE Materials:

thin-tip permanent markers black

watercolors

paper: white, black and colored

Product: Nameplate for desk or home using watercolors,

markers, and a touch of gold

Students will look at the layered borders and intricate

design patterns in Islamic tiles, textiles, and manuscripts.

Fifth Grade


JAPANESE KIMONO DESIGN Materials:


or black


or black


white or black


assorted colors

patterned paper, colored (if

available)

scissors

glue

oil pastels

gold glitter (optional)

Product: A paper kimono with oil pastel and construction

paper patterns

Students will examine traditional kimonos from Japan on

colored transparencies. They will learn about the

meaning of some of the patterns and how designs were

created.

JAZZ COLLAGES: ROMARE BEARDEN Materials:

watercolor paper

watercolors

magazine pages


scissors

glue and water solution

small cup

brush

grease pencils

Product: A small collage with a jazz instrument drawing

and watercolor

Students will learn about the artist Romare Bearden, and

how his art reflects the Harlem Renaissance and the

development of jazz. They will consider his favorite art

form “collage” and then create their own collage using

multiple materials and techniques.

Fifth Grade


KACHINA COLLAGES Materials:


glue

scissors



water cups

Product: An abstract paper collage

Students will learn about the Santa Clara Pueblo artist

Helen Hardin. Her art uses imagery from her culture

(Kachina), geometric shapes, and multi-layered color

schemes. Students will focus their art on the abstract

faces Hardin used in her work by creating a layered

collage using cut paper, markers, and paint and creating

multiple layers with different media.

Fifth Grade


LANDSCAPE COLLAGES Materials:

liquid washable paint

paper plate palettes

brushes

water cups

12” x 15” paper, colored (for

mounting)

9” x 12” paper: white, light blue,

or light violet

6” x 12” paper, white (two per

student)

Product: A torn paper collage landscape

Students are introduced to the group of seven Canadian

painters who worked in a northern landscape similar to

Alaska. They will look at the structure of landscape

paintings, describing the foreground, background, and

middle ground. They will explore color by painting

paper, and then create a torn paper collage landscape.

LANDSCAPE DRAWING Materials:

broad-tip markers, black or brown

fine-tip markers, black or brown

6" x 16" drawing paper, manila or

white

8" x 18" paper, black or brown (for

mounting)

view finder

paper, any type (for practice)

Product: A practice sheet of lines and a small copy of a

van Gogh drawing with a finished landscape from

imagination while using a variety of lines to create values

Students will explore line as a way to create value in a

drawing. They will see how line can be used as a way to

identify the unique drawing style of an artist through

observing and discussing the drawings of Vincent van

Gogh.

LANDSCAPES: POINT OF VIEW Materials:

Payons™ or watercolors

paint brushes, medium

watercolor paper

markers, black

white glue


construction paper (for mounting)

Product: Low relief watercolor landscape painting

demonstrating horizon, vanishing point, background, and

foreground

Different artist’s styles are highlighted as students

examine issues concerning land resources. They learn

how to design and draw a landscape using the horizon,

vanishing point, background, middle ground, and

foreground, choosing a Draanjik reference photograph.

The Draanjik (river of many caches) region in

northeastern Alaska is an important resting spot for

waterfowl when they depart Fairbanks’ Creamer’s Field.

This drawing is used as a base for a watercolor painting.

Students then choose several 3D additions of salt, thin

paper, black beads (representing vanishing points), and

paper geese or miniature models of a Gwich’in birch-

bark canoe.

Fifth Grade


MACRO-MADE ICE WORMS Materials:

pencils

scissors

glue sticks

staplers

cellophane


violet, and black

oil pastels, blue and white

yarn

Product: A 3D glacier diorama with a finger-knitted yarn

ice worm

Students will learn that microscopic ice worms actually

exist and were first discovered in Alaska in 1887 on Muir

Glacier. They will each create a triangular diorama

depicting an Alaskan glacier and finger knit a macro-

made ice worm using icy-colored yarn.

MICHELANGELO’S HANDS Materials:


9” x 9” paper, black and colored

chalk, white and colored

pencil

eraser

glue

Product: A full-size drawing of hands

Students will study Michelangelo’s paintings and

sculptures. They will then draw their own hands in a

sculptural style using pencils and chalks to create three-

dimensional effects.



glue stick

scissors


exploration vehicle









100)


200 (1/2 box of 400 from A&W

Wholesale)



between two)


scissors

paper strips/scraps, variety of colors











balance and move.

Fifth Grade





MONOGRAMS Materials:

colored pencils, including white

4" x 4" paper, colored

42" x 42" paper, colored

6" x 6" paper, black (for

mounting)

glue

Product: Individual monograms designed with fanciful

lettering and borders, colored with colored pencils, and

mounted on black with a colored border

The lesson focuses on the use of colored pencils in an

illustration and lettering design, and looks closely at

contemporary illustrators Chris Van Allsburg and

Deborah Lattimore. Students will use colored pencils to

create their own monograms in the tradition of

manuscript illuminators of the past and modern book.


drawing paper

construction paper


pencils

glue sticks




McKinley.

MUSEUM CURATOR: WHAT IS ART? Materials:



white

Product: Groups will decide what should be included in a

museum exhibit collection and present their ideas to the

class

Students will work in cooperative groups to determine

the value and meaning of a wide variety of images of art

and objects.

Fifth Grade


NEGATIVE/POSITIVE CHAIR DRAWINGS Materials:

12" x 28" paper, white or manila


colored

pencils

marker, black

scissors

glue

Product: A mounted cut-out of the space around a drawn

object

Students will practice looking carefully at photographs

and artwork to see both the positive shapes and negative

spaces around them. They will practice looking at an

object through a viewfinder to help see the negative

space. After making a contour drawing of the object,

negative shapes will be outlined, cut-out, and

reassembled to reveal positive shapes.

NEW WAYS OF USING COLOR Materials:

liquid or cake tempera paint:

white, primary, & secondary

colors


& a variety of light colors

9” x 12” black construction paper

to frame the art

0.5” flat paint brushes

Product: After viewing a photographic image of

something from the natural world, students create non-

representational paintings using only dabs of various

mixed colors organized in an abstract way. Students

strive to create colors that match those seen in the photo.

Students learn to mix colors and color values after

reviewing the color wheel. They create a painting in the

style of Alma Thomas, an African American art teacher

and artist who achieved many “firsts” in her lifetime.

Her style of painting with dabs of color is similar in

appearance to mosaics. The colored dabs, inspired by the

colors seen in the natural world, are arranged in patterns

that are not constrained by the shapes of actual objects.

NEWTON’S LIGHT COLLAGES Materials:

9” x 9”, 6” x 6”, and 1” x 9”

construction paper: red, orange,

yellow, green, blue, indigo and

violet


Astrobright® paper


scrap paper, various colors and

texture

pencils

glue sticks

scissors

Product: A 3D light collage

Students will learn about Sir Isaac Newton and his prism

experiment, and will see how he proved that sunlight,

also known as white light, when refracted shows the

colors of the rainbow. This information will guide

students in creating double 3D starburst collages, using

papers to represent the long and short wavelength of

color and related vocabulary text accents.

Fifth Grade




tempera paint cakes: white,

primary, and secondary colors

watercolor brushes


(for framing)

glue or glue sticks

water cups

paper towels

pencils

Product: A nonrepresentational painting (shapes of color

arranged in a pattern) from flowers or space.

Students will review color mixing and explore the color

ideas of value, intensity, and quantity. They are

introduced to the idea of painting atmosphere and

nonrepresentational art through the work of African

American artist Alma Thomas. Looking at photographs

of flowers and space, students will match the colors they

see by mixing paint. They will then arrange those colors

in a pattern of shapes on their paper.

NORTHERN MIGRATIONS: CRANES, CARIBOU, & SALMON Materials:

watercolors

crayons or oil pastels, white

scissors

glue



5” x 7” index cards, assorted colors

Product: A watercolor and crayon-resist artwork showing

repetition of animal silhouette shapes in motion.

Students will look at groups of migrating salmon,

caribou, and cranes in photos and artwork and then draw

and cut out silhouettes. They will create a wet-on-wet

watercolor background using a crayon.

NORTHERN TEAM SPIRIT: ARCTIC WINTER GAMES LOGO Materials:

glue

oil pastels

pencils



4” x 22” railroad board (for soaring

lines)

4” x 4” railroad board (for the stars)

9” x 12” railroad board (for the

ravens)

Product: A pastel “stained glass” Arctic Winter Games

logo

Students will be introduced to Jill Marshall, a Fairbanks

graphic artist who designed the 2014 Arctic Winter

Games logo. They replicate an image of the logo by

creating templates of raven, stars, and soaring lines

before tracing them. An impression of stained glass will

be achieved by outlining the shapes using a white pencil

and then filling in the areas using the colors of the Arctic

Winter Games.

Fifth Grade


OAXACAN PATTERNED ANIMALITOS Materials:

railroad board

oil pastels

scissors

glue

Product: A 3-D animal made of railroad board, decorated

and colored with oil pastels.

Students will look at and handle Mexican Oaxacan

(pronounced WA-HA-CAN) wooden animal sculptures.

These animals are painted in bright colors and intricate

patterns. The simple shapes and patterned brightness of

the animals are the inspiration for students’ designs.

OCEAN LIFE DIORAMAS Materials:


black


oil pastels

scissors

glue

Product: A colorful ocean diorama containing either

coral reef life or Alaskan/Northern ocean life

Students will look at photographs of life under the ocean

and get experience using them as a resource in drawing.

Drawings are colored with oil pastels and cut out to

create paper fish, marine mammals, and other ocean life

forms to place in a habitat within a black paper diorama

box.

Fifth Grade


PAINTING FAIRBANKS HISTORY Materials:

permanent markers, blue or black

tempera cakes, color and white


Product: Painted pictures of historic buildings from historic

photos

Students will look at photographs of Fairbanks from 1904 to

the present, especially noticing growth along the Chena River

bank. They will look at illustrations by Yukon artist and writer

Ted Harrison. Borrowing from Ted Harrison’s distinctive style,

students will paint a historic building using photos as guides.

PAINT LIKE A PRINTER Materials:

6” x 6” watercolor paper



assorted colors


assorted colors


assorted colors

permanent marker, black

glue

scissors

pencil

Product: A small watercolor painting of overlapping

transparent letters

Students will learn about two new color models (additive

and subtractive) used in computers and color copiers.

The artist Georges Seraut is examined for his use of

pointillism, and also Benjamin Harris Day, the inventor

of Ben Day Dots which were the precursor to pixels.

Using their initials, students will create a watercolor

painting that replicates the color printer model of

applying pigment in layers and incorporates small dots of

color to demonstrate both Seraut and Harris’

techniques 13.

PAPER FISH SCULPTURES Materials:

crepe paper strips, assorted


assorted colors


construction paper scrap box,

colored

scissors

glue

Product: A paper fish relief sculpture mounted on black

or colored 9" x 12" paper

Students will construct a relief sculpture in crepe paper

after discussing ways to make a flat paper three-

dimensional.



papermaking.

Fifth Grade


PAPER SCULPTURE TECHNIQUES Materials:


(cut to 4” x 3” strips)


(cut to 3” x 3” strips)


(cut to 1/2" strips)

7” x 11” railroad board, assorted

colors



colored

glue

scissors

Product: A paper sculpture that hangs on the wall using a

variety of folding, cutting and bending techniques

Students will learn about two well-known paper

sculpture artists, how paper is made, and various paper

sculpting techniques. After creating an armature out of

railroad board, students will attach their sculpture

components in a creative way to make a fun and

imaginative paper sculpture.


sketchbooks

colored pencils


bird drawings






PORTRAITS BY MARY CASSATT Materials:

12" x 18" paper, manila (cut to 12"

x 12")

12” x 18” paper, manila (cut to 6”

x 12")

chalk pastels (NUPASTEL™),

colored

paper towels

Product: A 12" x 12" chalk-pastel double portrait of the

student/artist with a friend, relative, or pet

Students will hear about Mary Cassatt and study some of

her portraits. They will explore some properties of chalk

and facial proportions. Then, they will "paint" a double

portrait of themselves with someone or a pet.

POSTERS OF FAMOUS ACHIEVERS & EXPLORERS Materials:

construction paper

tissue paper

glue

scissors

markers

Product: Collage portraits with a quote

Students will be introduced to the thoughts and faces of

famous achievers and explorers. Looking at portraits by

Andy Warhol and Fred Babb will provide ideas for

adding color to the posters students create. The posters

use copied faces of chosen famous achievers that have

been embellished with tissue paper and marker. A

favorite saying or quote from their chosen person is

added.

Fifth Grade


PRINTED PAPER BIRCH Materials:


5” x 8” construction paper, blues

and purples

5” x 2” construction paper, greens

and browns

1” x 3” cardboard scrap

1” x 11” tag board, any color



paint cups

copy paper

glue sticks

medium-tip markers, black


scissors

old newspaper

Product: A collage of birch trees with branches drawn

with a marker

Students will learn how to create a realistic looking birch

tree using a simple printmaking technique that is called

monoprinting. After looking at birch trees more closely,

students use their observation skills to draw realistic

birch tree branches with thick and thin lines. They will

learn how to show a foreground, middle ground, and

background in their collage through their composition

and placement of their trees.



and sizes

scissors

glue

markers, black







Fifth Grade


QUILTS: COLORFUL GEOMETRY Materials:


colors

patterned copier paper (masters

included)

ruler or template (included)

scissors

glue

Product: A colorful individual quilt block based on

triangles and squares, set on a double border

Color overhead photos of traditional and contemporary

quilts utilizing mostly squares and triangles are the basis

for discussion on design and color. Students will create a

quilt block of their own geometric design on a folded

grid with borders.

Fifth Grade


RAY TROLL: SALMON SKETCHES Materials:

newsprint paper


black (to draw final fish on)

5-1/2" x 9-1/2" construction paper,

cool colors (to display the fish)

pencils

scissors

glue sticks

oil pastels

Product: A pastel drawing of a salmon "leaping" off a

cool background

Students will learn about Alaskan artist Ray Troll and

about the external anatomy of

salmon. Elements of shape will

be used as guidelines to sketch

their fish images before using

oil pastels to provide brilliant

details and vibrant outlines.






dark green


brown

oil pastels

scissors

glue







construction.

Fifth Grade


TREES IN TISSUE COLLAGE Materials:

12" x 18" paper, white and black

11" x 17" paper, white (precut)

5” x 7” tissue paper, assorted

colors (precut)

tempera cakes, black

brush

towels

glue

scissors

Product: A painted black line tree with tissue collage

Students will search small Paul Klee reproductions to

observe his imaginative ideas, and then create a tree

trunk and foliage using painted lines and colored tissue.

TWO SHOES MONTYPE Materials:

Plexiglas® printing plates

tempera cakes

brush

water

scratch paper

glue

pencil


colored (for mounting)


(dampened)

Payons™

Product: A mounted monotype print

Students will explore the monotype printmaking process.

They will learn some color theory, and practice mixing

tempera paint to create a colorful print of their shoe.

They will pull a “ghost” print and work with water-

soluble crayons on it to change how it looks.

Fifth Grade





included.

VIEWING HISTORY Materials:


assorted colors

glue

scissors

copy of Picturing America

reproduction of Washington

Crossing the Delaware by

Emanuel Leutze (school library or

online image)

pen, black

Product: A file folder “folio” for storage of art sketches

or art projects in progress

Students compare and contrast two historical paintings

depicting the same event, Washington Crossing the

Delaware. As students become informed, critical

viewers, the two paintings reveal the artists’ intent when

creating their paintings. Students create a folio to hold

the tools used in the lesson, such as a viewfinder,

Thinking Map, and art papers.

Fifth Grade


WARHOL BLOTTED LINE PRINTS Materials:

construction paper:

o 9”x12” black

o 8”x11” pastel colors (peach, light

blue, light purple, light green)

students choose 1

o random sizes and shapes for

collage background (darker and

neon shades of pastel paper)

practice paper (scrap printer paper)

glue stick

scissors (only if collage pieces are not

precut by teacher)

masking tape, 12” per student

black tempera paint

small paint cups (shared between 2-3 students)

Product: Blotted line monoprint of a Warhol shoe on top

a student-made collage background

Students will learn about Andy Warhol’s early career as

a graphic artist where his shoe illustrations were used in

fashion magazine and newspaper advertisements. Warhol

invented a blotted line printing process, the lesson

inspiration.

WARHOL’S CELEBRITIES Materials:


scissors

glue sticks

markers

face pictures (included)

Product: Four faces of famous artists cut, colored, and

arranged on 12" x 12" white paper

Students will work with two elements of Andy Warhol's

early art, repetition and celebrities, by treating four

identical faces with variation.

WARHOL SPACE FRUIT Materials:

scissors

glue stick

pencil

9”x12” drawing paper: white

construction paper:

o 9”x12” black (background)

o 8”x11” purple, blue, red,

green (student choose 1)

o 6”x9” yellow, orange, red,

green (student choose 1)

8 1/2”x 5 1/2” (half of a 8

1/2”x11” sheet) neon paper

(Astrobright): bright yellow, neon

orange, hot pink, lime green

(students choose 1)

Product: Fruit still life drawing turned into a paper

collage

Students will be inspired by Warhol’s Space Fruit series.

The Pop Artist added his twist on the traditional fruit still

life emphasizing the “space” the fruit inhabited by

including the fruits’ unique shadows.

Fifth Grade


WARHOL WALLPAPER Materials:

2”x3” cardboard

4”x6” grid paper (1/2”x1/2” ) or

light-colored construction paper

2”x6” practice paper (grid or any

scrap paper)

5”x7” background construction

paper (black)

masking tape, 2” strip

scissors

glue stick

colored pencils (optional)

Product: Students will make their own foam stamp to

print a repeating Alaskan fish pattern wallpaper sample.

Warhol’s Paintings for Children series will be explored

and its graphic fish wallpaper will be the inspiration.

Students will use a graphic designer’s trick to make their

pattern repeat perfectly.




watercolor paint

brush

paper towels

pencil

objects to draw

glue

drawing board


drawing




WATER CURRENTS Materials:

9" x 12" paper, assorted colors

4-1/2” x 4-1/2” paper, assorted colors

white glue

one empty coffee can (with hole in

lid)

#30 silica sand (in coffee can)

world map

Product: A line study in colored cut-paper and sand

Students will discuss lines found in nature that all go in

one direction. They will then produce a line study in cut-

paper and sand that shows the rhythm and flow of water

currents.

WORDS OF WISDOM COLLAGE Materials:

printmaking ink: magenta, yellow and

blue


tissue paper scraps, assorted colors

glue

scissors

Product: A colorful, printmaking collage with text

Students will learn from the book Only One You by Linda

Krantz about the “words of wisdom” parents offer their

children as they go out into the world. After discussing what

words of wisdom they have heard from friends and family,

students will create a collage using printmaking ink and

brayers. They will add their own words to this dynamic color

collage by tracing words on to tissue paper.

Fifth Grade


YUP’IK LINEAR PATTERNS Materials:

6" X 12" construction paper,

various colors


scissors

liquid

glue

pencils

Product: A felt linear pattern design

Students learn how to combine Math, Art, and Yup'ik

knowledge in creating a pattern based on using a non-

standard unit of measurement...their knuckle! Using this

method, they are able to create an accurate square from

an irregular piece of paper. From this square, they design

patterns from contrasting colors of felt that repeat over

and over. This linear pattern design is used on parka

edges, headdresses, and fur boots.

YUP’IK STYLE MASKS Materials:

construction paper, assorted earth-

tones


black

2" crepe paper strips, black or

brown

glue

Product: A mounted torn paper mask with Yup’ik

features

Students are introduced to Yup’ik culture through

looking at masks. They will learn to recognize features of

Yup’ik masks, and then create their own torn-paper

mask.



Blue, bold-face font indicates a new kit. Action Figures Like Schapiro & Matisse

African Kufi Hats

African Mud Cloth

Alien Life in Abstract (revised)


Architectural Facades

Architect Models: My Site

Bamboo Painting

Birch Trees “DioramART”

Birch Trees with Kes Woodward

Birds of Different Feathers

Blowups

Box Design by Graphic Designers

Calder Stabiles

Calligraphy Journey

Carlo-Kendall’s Mask Journey

Cell Felties

Charette: Mixed-Media Monotypes

Chuck Close: Up Close

Color Relationships

Comb Designs

Doodles & Form

Dreaming Up Dragons

Egyptian Obelisks

Egyptian Sarcophagus

Embossed Cards

Fairbanks: Boom or Bust

Felt Animal Masks

Flowers with Georgia

Gesture Figure Drawing

Greek Columns

Grids and Values in Art & Math

H is for Health

Helping Hands

Horse Studies with da Vinci and Butterfield

Hundertwasser: Architect

Insect Drawings

Jacob Lawrence Athletes

Journaling with Leonardo

Kitsch Art: Eyeglasses

Lamppost Banners: Celebrating the Arctic Winter

Games

Leonardo's One-Point Perspective

“Me” Poem Book

Metal Repoussé

Migration Lines

Missing Mona!


Mosaic Design: Greek & Roman

Mt. McKinley: Sydney Laurence

Musical and Visual Rhythms

Observe, Question & Write

Open Doors to Drawing (unit)

Painting with the Elements

Phillip Charette: Masks with Value

Play with Perspective

Prehistoric Cave Art

Printing to the Beat of Your Own Tune

Ribbon Illusions (revised)

Roman Bust Portraits

Sculpture Proposal, The

Shading Forms

Shirts with World Patterns

Shoe Design

Shorebirds: Sentinels of Change

Split-Image Drawing

Tinwork Frames

Tools of the Trade

Wright Angles

Wright, Frank Lloyd: Texture

Wright On!

Wright Perspective, The

Wright’s Stained Glass Windows

Yup’ik Animal Masks

Yup’ik Eskimo Diorama

Zentangles






availability






Sixth Grade


ACTION FIGURES LIKE SCHAPIRO & MATISSE Materials:

• cake tempera, assorted colors

• paint brushes, large

• water cups

• glue

• 4" x 6" construction paper,

assorted colors


assorted colors

• assorted textured paper (copier

paper)

• metallic paper pieces

• 9" x 12" construction paper, white


black

Product: An action figure collage with painted

background

Students will look at the colorful cut-paper collages of

Miriam Schapiro and Henri Matisse. They will paint a

background then create a person in action with many

colorful, collaged papers.

AFRICAN KUFI HATS Materials:

• 1/2” x 18” construction paper

strips

• crepe paper

• railroad board strips

• staplers

• scissors

• glue

• tape

Product: An African Kufi hat

Students will learn about the strip weaving of Ghana and

the African Adinkra cloth made with stamped patterns.

Kufi hats are made with a seven-strip weaving and

stamped African symbols.

AFRICAN MUD CLOTH Materials:

• Sunlight™ dish detergent

• pipe cleaners

• Q-tips™

• paper scraps

• cotton fabric

Product: Stamped objects on colored fabric

Students will examine the West African technique of

making a “mud cloth.”

Sixth Grade


ALIEN LIFE IN ABSTRACT Materials: (per student)

oil pastels

glue

pencil


black or dark blue


black or dark blue

Photocopy paper

Product: A 2D fantasy oil pastel painting.

Students learn that master artists such

as Paul Klee, Joan Miro, and Alexei

Jawlensky focused on simplified forms,

lines, and color to express themselves

in their abstract artwork. In

appreciation of this style of art,

students draw fantasy, oil pastel

paintings on dark construction paper to

show abstract aliens in their celestial

environment. They also create subtle textures by pressing

a gum eraser across and through the oil pastels.



cup water)







watercolor paints

water cups

paintbrushes

glue stick












pencil

tape



a photo and writing






ARCHITETURAL FACADES Materials:


pens and markers, black

assortment

Product: A large black and white textural drawing of a

residential façade.

Students are introduced to three styles of residential

architecture and given the task of categorizing

architectural components and building materials. They

will then design a visually interesting building facade.

Sixth Grade


ARCHITECT MODELS: MY SITE Materials:


7” x 9” cardstock or construction

paper, white

1/2” x 15” foam core/corrugated

cardboard strips, white

glue sticks

scissors

pencils

Product: A 3-D model

This lesson encourages students to adhere to the

philosophy of 6th grade level artist, Frank Lloyd Wright,

in that an architect must endeavor to create a relationship

between a structure and the space that it occupies.

Students will look at examples of architectural models.

They will create a three-dimensional topographical map

and then design a structure that is appropriate or

justifiable for their building site.



glue

scissors


papers







Sixth Grade


BAMBOO PAINTING Materials:

ink or tempera

water cups (two)

bamboo water brushes

paper towels

12" x 18" paper (three)

signature chop (optional)

egg carton lid (one, to aid against

spills)

Product: A large painting of bamboo

Students will use correct posture (body and brush) and

four basic strokes to paint a bamboo composition.

BIRCH TREES “DIORAM-ART” Materials:

12” X 18” construction paper,

black


black

9” x 12” construction paper: white,

pink, light blue, dark blue and gray

glue stick

ruler

scissors

pencil

chalk pastels: brown, black, white,

green, yellow, orange and red

Product: Diorama

Students create a life-like Alaska birch diorama using

chalk pastel elements in foreground, middle ground and

background layers that presents the illusion of depth.

This lesson was inspired by the impressive dioramas at

the Fairbanks’ Morris Thompson Cultural & Visitors

Center, the One Tree Project, and compelling research

regarding dioramas and education.

BIRCH TREES WITH KES WOODWARD Materials:

watercolor paints

bamboo brushes

water cups

3/4” wide masking tape

2" wide masking tape

scissors

watercolor paper

fine-tip ink pens, black

Product: A watercolor painting of birch trees

Students will look at birch tree paintings by Fairbanks

artist Kesler Woodward. Then they will learn step-by-

step watercolor painting techniques as they compose and

paint birch trees.

BIRDS OF DIFFERENT FEATHERS Materials:

construction paper, three-values of

purple, green, and orange

glue sticks

scissors

oil pastels

Product: A bird collage with a message

Students will participate in a tolerance activity before

discussing a bird poster about living in balance and harmony

with each other. Using the art elements, students will create

their own unique bird collages with messages.

Sixth Grade


BLOWUPS Materials:

clear tape


assorted colors (including white,

earth-tone and neutral colors)

markers

crayons, oil pastels, or colored

pencils (students’ choice)

Product: A circular detailed, brightly colored drawing

Students will select and recreate a detail of an artwork

with the aid of a viewfinder.

BOX DESIGN BY GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Materials:


assorted dark and light colors

pens, black (three assorted sizes)

scissors

glue

Product: A custom designed box with a specific color scheme

and line design

Students will learn that one of the potential jobs of a graphic

artist is to design custom boxes for many types of businesses.

Sixth Grade


CALDER STABILES Materials:

construction paper

railroad board: black, blue and red

(cut so the grain in the board

allows a clean and easy fold)

metallic paper

telephone wire, colored

scissors

glue

Product: A standing 3-D sculpture

Students will learn about the mobiles and stabiles created

by Alexander Calder. They will make their own stabile

sculptures with railroad board using folding, slotting, and

tabbing techniques.




use.

CALLIGRAPHY JOURNEY Materials:


12” yarn or string, earth-tone (per

student)

scissors

glue sticks

watercolor paints

bamboo brushes


Product: A wall hanging

After being introduced to Catherine Louis’ book, Liu and

the Bird, students will create three pieces of art based on

her illustrations. Starting with a realistic interpretation of

an image of their choosing, students will gradually

abstract their image resulting in a calligraphic symbol.

CARLO-KENDALL’S MASK JOURNEY Materials:

Lesson 1 (Scoring Our Masks)

9” x 12” construction paper in

various colors

liquid glue

scissors

permanent markers

Lesson 2 (Embellishing Our Masks)

12” x 18” construction paper in

various colors

embellishments: stickers, feathers,

and brads

liquid glue

scissors

Product: 3D paper masks with embellishments and

pigment

Students will learn about Kathleen Carlo-Kendall, a

Koyukon Athabascan who is a contemporary wood carver

and sculptor.

Lesson 1: Students will create relief construction masks

using scoring techniques and paper engineering.

Sixth Grade


permanent markers

Lesson 3 (Masking Our Faces)

7.5” x 11” watercolor paper


liquid glue

scissors

permanent markers

watercolor paints

water containers

1” sponge brushes

stapler

staples

Lesson 2: Students will focus on adorning their relief

construction paper masks by adding decorative details

and/or features.

Lesson 3: Students will score watercolor paper to create

3D wearable masks. They will use permanent markers to

create Oaxacan-style patterns before using watercolor

paints to add pigment similar to Carlo-Kendall’s wood-

stained masks.


pencils

ink pens, black

copier paper






CELL FELTIES Materials:

4” x 7” felt pieces, variety of colors

yarn, variety of colors; cut to

lengths for manageable sewing

beads and buttons, large enough for

needles to pass through

substitution: use cut-up straws in

place of beads and scrap felt instead

of buttons

NOTE: Felt is available through the District Bid

List

Product: Three-dimensional, single-cell organism

Students will learn about the many interesting ways cells

move, basic cell anatomy, and what differentiate plant and

animals’ cells. Students will continue to create single-

celled felt organisms embellished with buttons, yarn, and

beads, which are representative of cell organelles.

CHARETTE: MIXED MEDIA MONOTYPES Materials:



watercolor paints

brushes

stencils

colored markers, thin and thick

crayons, white

masking tape

glue sticks

Product: Mixed-media monotype prints

Students will be introduced to a series of mixed media

monotype prints by contemporary Alaska Native artist,

Phillip Charette. After reviewing his work, students will

be encouraged to develop a series of prints related to an

interest of their own. Students will be given a great deal of

artistic freedom to address the following checklist:

create mixed media art,

develop a series of related monotypes,

try the chine-collé process, and

create a symbol that represents something

important in a student’s life.

Sixth Grade


CHUCK CLOSE: UP CLOSE Materials:

tempera cake, primary and

secondary colors

tempera cake, white (one per

student)

1/2” brushes, flat

water cups


paper towels

Product: A Chuck Close-style grid painting

Students will look at the larger than life portraits of

Chuck Close, and how he painted square grids of color

and shapes into exciting portraits. Students will paint

their own color study with grids and shapes, mixing light

and dark values of color to create a shape within a shape.

COLOR RELATIONSHIPS Materials:


tempera paints

1" easel brushes

paper towels

water cups


Product: A 16" x 16" color study of a detail

Students will review a color wheel: warm, cool,

complementary, and analogous colors. Then, they will

use a viewfinder to find and enlarge a small part of an

object. They will paint the drawing with their color

choices.

COMB DESIGNS Materials:


assorted colors

scrap paper box

glue

scissors

pencils

markers

toothpicks (15-25 per student)

Product: A designer hair comb

Students will design and construct a model for a new

comb, considering form and function.

Sixth Grade


DOODLES & FORM Materials:




gray


#2 pencils

glue sticks

scissors

Product: A greeting card with pencil-shaded forms

Students will examine the Surrealism Art Movement and

the drawings of illustrator Chris Van Allsburg as their

motivation for drawing. They will make value scales

with a pencil using five sequential changes to practice the

technique of shading. This will enable them to practice

changing shapes to forms using the illusion of light,

depth, and texture. The final design is made into a

greeting card.

DREAMING UP DRAGONS Materials:


black and gray


assorted colors


assorted colors

oil pastels

glue

scissors

Product: A colorful paper dragon collage

Students will look at pictures of dragons from different

cultures, illustrators, and times. They will consider

expressions and moods of the dragons, and study body

parts. Then they will build their own dragon in their own

way.

Sixth Grade


EGYPTIAN OBELISKS Materials:




brown

tempera cakes, brown and blue


paint, gold

Product: A 3-D sculpture mounted on 2-D background

Students will learn about obelisks (pillars of stone), an

original Egyptian architectural feature that was placed in

pairs within temple sites. They will use paper to create

their own three-dimensional obelisk and paints to create

an environment for their piece. Last, they will write

hieroglyphs on their obelisk to reflect their initials and

birthday.

EGYPTIAN SARCOPHAGUS Materials:

crayons, fat primary ones


1" x 6" metallic paper

scissors

glue

Product: A sarcophagus cut-out designed with crayons

and metallic paper

Students will learn some of the reasons and processes

leading to burial in the sarcophagus. They will then

design a full-body sarcophagus using symmetry.

EMBOSSED CARDS Materials:


assorted colors

colored chalk

tongue depressor

railroad board

Product: Embossed greeting cards

Students will look at embossed prints made from as early

as the 15th century to present day. They will then design

their own embossed cards and embellish using colored

chalk. The cards are completed when the embossing is

glued to colored folded construction paper that

compliments the color scheme.

ESCHER






Sixth Grade


FAIRBANKS: BOOM OR BUST Materials:


word sheet

newspaper

scissors

glue stick

Product: Collage of complementary colors using shapes

and words to depict the “Boom or Bust” economy

Students will discuss the Boom or Bust economy of

Fairbanks through the years. Working like a graphic

designer, they will make a poster using the elements of

art to build a cut-paper collage depicting the

positive/negative aspect of the Fairbanks economy.

FELT ANIMAL MASKS Materials:

felt, assorted colors (two

packages)

white glue

hole punchers


(optional)

Product: A design of an animal face in cut-felt

Beginning with a description of public art and how it is

commissioned, students will design an animal mask from

photo references, simplify the shape, and cut it out of

felt.


oil pastels

brushes

pencils

rulers

scissors


paper towels








FLOWERS WITH GEORGIA Materials:

oil pastels

watercolor paints


black


white

1/2” construction paper strips,

colored

glue sticks

Product: A painting of an enlarged flower

Students will look at the flower paintings of Georgia

O’Keeffe before they enlarge and paint a flower.

Sixth Grade


GESTURE FIGURE DRAWING Materials:

18" x 24" drawing paper, manila

or white


color (for mounting)

watercolor paints

brushes

water cups

paper towels

scissors

glue stick

Product: Cut-paper with painted gesture drawings of the

human figure

Using gesture drawing, students will capture the figure in

action with quick sketches. They will work first from a

paper model and then become the model themselves.

Body proportions and basic shapes are discussed. The

sketches will be finished when a little watercolor and

contoured cutting is added around the shapes.

GREEK COLUMNS Materials:

16" width roller paper (one per

student)

oil pastels or markers, colored

column stencil (included)

Product: A drawing of a stenciled column with an

original capital

Students will study the classical period of Greek art as

seen in the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens. They

will then design a capital for a column.

GRIDS & VALUES IN ART & MATH Materials: (Two Sessions)

drawing pencils

isometric dot grid

erasers

scissors

glue stick


6” x 9” sulfite paper, white

36” x 46” butcher paper, white

Product:

Day 1: A shaded value scale and arrangement of

isometric cube drawings

Day 2: A cooperative group enlargement of an M.C.

Escher print

Students are introduced to the illusionary art of M.C.

Escher. They will use hard and soft pencil leads to shade

a five-step value scale and then use a dot grid to make

isometric drawings of cubes. Grids are also used in the

second session to make a cooperative enlargement of an

Escher print.

Sixth Grade


“H” IS FOR HEALTH Materials:


and black


and black

glue sticks

scissors

pencils

Product: A black and white health-related poster

Students will become graphic designers by using type

and “type helpers” in creative and meaningful ways to

convey visual messages that promote health. The young

designers will grapple with fundamentals of good design

through appreciation and use of the six principles of art.

HELPING HANDS Materials:



pencils

glue sticks

scissors


tempera paints, assorted colors

1” brushes (for color wash)

brushes, thin/fine (size 3)

Payons™

Product: A painting and/or poster

This lesson involves students in creating a

character/pattern developed from tracing their forearm

and hand. Students will color wash and add creative

details using Payons™. They will complete their “helping

hand” project by writing a pledge of community service to

be placed in their character’s fingers. (Students will need

a clear desk and pencil).

HORSE STUDIES WITH DA VINCI & BUTTERFIELD

Materials:

china markers

crayons

newsprint

texture boards

construction paper

Product: A proportional horse

Students will learn about Leonardo da Vinci, a

Renaissance artist, and his desire to make a 24-foot tall

horse from cast metal. They will be introduced to the

work of present day horse sculptor, Deborah Butterfield.

Using circles, radius, and diameter as measurements,

students will draw a horse in proportion. The form is

created with rubbed texture on the horse.

HUNDERTWASSER: ARCHITECT Materials:

chisel-tip markers, assorted colors



black

glue sticks

Product: A decorative door or window using colored

markers

Students will learn about artist and architect Friedrich

Hundertwasser as they design their own doors or

windows in his style.

Sixth Grade


INSECT DRAWINGS Materials:



black

broad-tip marker, black

Product: A mounted black and white ink insect drawing

from observation

Students will draw from observation producing a large

marker drawing of an insect.

JACOB LAWRENCE ATHLETES Materials:

scissors

glue sticks

chalk, white


assorted colors


assorted colors

Product: An abstract, two-color, cut-paper collage of

people engaged in athletic games

Students will use a cut-out gesture drawing of a figure to

achieve Jacob Lawrence's distortions.

JOURNALING WITH LEONARDO Materials:

individual copies of the journal,

My Journey with Leonardo

pencil

ruler

block letters

scissors

glue

paper, white

Product: Initials in block letters, using perspective to

make them appear 3-D

Students will learn about Leonardo da Vinci and then

begin their own journals styled after his. They will make

block letters three-dimensional by using one-point

perspective. The journal is designed with many of

Leonardo’s ideas, which can be done in subsequent

lessons.

Sixth Grade


KITSCH ART EYEGLASSES Materials:

6” x 18” and 4.5” x 6” construction

paper: red, yellow, blue, green,

orange, violet, white and black

3” x 3” Cellophane™, assorted

colors

glitter

sequins, colored

glue sticks

glue, white

Product: Wearable glasses

Students will use an assortment of colored construction

papers, sequins, colored Cellophane, and glitter to create a

wearable pair of kitsch eyeglasses. They will be given the

terminology to describe their eyeglasses design using art-

related vocabulary. They will go on to answer questions

that relate to their glasses, develop a title (style) and price

for their unique eyewear.

LEONARDO’S ONE-POINT PERSPECTIVE Materials:

pencil, sharpened

colored pencils

ruler

glue stick



assorted colors


assorted colors

Product: Geometric forms drawn in a one-point

perspective

After studying how Leonardo da Vinci used one-point

perspective in The Last Supper, students will cut shapes

from construction paper and turn them into forms using

the rules of one-point perspective.

Sixth Grade


“ME” IN POEM BOOK Materials:


yellow, blue, orange, green, violet,

black and brown

6” x 4-1/2” railroad board,

assorted colors

glue sticks

scissors

old newspapers

scrap/prepared paper, color

Product: An accordion-fold book

Students will create a basic two-color, accordion fold

book. They will illustrate their book with a semi-abstract

collage from prepared or scrap paper. The elements of

the collage symbolize aspects of students’ lives.

Students will go on to develop a poem about themselves

from a rich “well” of descriptive words. Leonardo da

Vinci, sixth grade scientist and artist, is highlighted in a

discussion culminating in viewing a “Me” Poem Book

created from da Vinci’s perspective.

METAL REPOUSSÉ Materials:

Per class:

40" copper foil, 34g

scissors

newspaper

For mounting:

pin backs (option 1)

glue gun (option 1)

paper punch (option 2)

3" brads (option 2)

scrap railroad board (option 2)

Product: A small tooled, copper foil mask that is

mounted

Students will look at masks made of clay, copper,

bronze, and marble throughout history and design their

own mask pins.

MIGRATION LINES Materials:


watercolor paints

scissors

glue


black


pencils

erasers

rulers

Product: A painted collage of lines an animal makes as it

migrates

Students will make a contour drawing of an Alaskan

animal and let movement lines follow behind as it

migrates. They will then paint the spaces between the

lines as they make choices from color theory studies.

Sixth Grade


MISSING MONA! Materials:


variety of colors

3” x 9” construction paper, variety

of colors


variety of colors

scissors

glue sticks

highlighters

Product: A book featuring collaged text. (It’s also a

“magical” book that makes the Mona Lisa disappear!)

Students read an engaging nonfiction article about the

great Mona Lisa heist of 1911. They highlight answers to

a series of self-selected, detective, comprehension

questions. Students go on to create a simple foldable

book that features an image of the Mona Lisa on its

double-page spread. When the covers are pulled, she

disappears! Students physically cut their response to

questions out of the text and collage their questions and

responses into their new book.



glue stick

scissors


exploration vehicle









100)


200 (1/2 box of 400 from A&W

Wholesale)



between two)


scissors


colors (just tons!)











balance and move.




Sixth Grade


MOSAIC DESIGN: GREEK AND ROMAN Materials:

1/2” x 9” paper strips, four colors

(Example: light green, dark green,

red and yellow or light blue, dark

blue, orange and yellow or dark

brown, medium brown, light

brown, gray and white)



scissors

glue

Product: A mosaic border

Students will study the history of Greek and Roman

mosaics before creating their own mosaic border design.

An emphasis is placed on contrast, line, and spacing as

qualities of a well-executed mosaic.


drawing paper

construction paper


pencils

glue sticks




McKinley.

MT. MCKINLEY: SYDNEY LAURENCE Materials:

watercolor paper


pastel colors

watercolor pencils

#7 brushes

water cups

paper towels

Product: A colored pencil watercolor painting of Mt.

McKinley

Students will look at the many Mt. McKinley paintings

by Sydney Laurence as they hear about his life and the

struggles he encountered when painting. Students will be

introduced to watercolor pencil drawing and painting

techniques, contour line, and value-contrast as they

create their versions of Mt. McKinley.

MUSICAL AND VISUAL RHYTHMS Materials:

Oil pastels

Scissors

Glue sticks


& red

4.5” x 12”

construction paper,

assorted cool,

warm, and neutral

colors

Product: Wall relief – 3D art with rhythm of

repeated elements.

Students look at sculptural wall reliefs made

by New York artist Judy Pfaff. They

observe how she uses the

world around her, including

music, to inspire her art. Rhythm is found

in art and music, and is used in both to see

and feel movement. While concentrating

on art elements, students create their own

wall relief to hang.

Sixth Grade




tempera paint cakes: white,

primary, and secondary colors

watercolor brushes


(for framing)

glue or glue sticks

water cups

paper towels

pencils

Product: A nonrepresentational painting (shapes of color

arranged in a pattern) from flowers or space.

Students will review color mixing and explore the color

ideas of value, intensity, and quantity. They are

introduced to the idea of painting atmosphere and

nonrepresentational art through the work of African

American artist Alma Thomas. Looking at photographs

of flowers and space, students will match the colors they

see by mixing paint. They will then arrange those colors

in a pattern of shapes on their paper.

Sixth Grade


OBSERVE, QUESTIONS, & WRITE Materials:

photocopied photos with questions

pencil

overhead reproductions of art

Product: A group collage creating the visual culture of

the class

Students will make detailed observations of a painting by

asking questions, and will write a short story about a

moment in time the artist has captured in the painting.

Students will see the visual culture in the painting, and

then draw an object or word representing what is

important to them.

OPEN DOORS TO DRAWING Materials (used throughout lesson)

pencils

erasers

glue sticks

photocopy paper


Lesson 1 (Door #1)

Specific Materials for this lesson:

5-1/2” x 8-1/2” photocopy paper, cut

in half


7” x 10” construction paper, white and

gray

Lesson 2 (Door #2)


rulers

8-1/2” x 11” photocopy paper (for

practice)

9” x 12” construction paper, black (for

final)

7” x 10” construction paper, white (for

final)

Lesson 3 (Door #3)


5-1/2” x 8-1/2” photocopy paper, cut

in half


colored pencils

Product: Throughout this unit, students will focus on

drawing doors

Lesson 1 (Door #1): Students will use

simple straight lines, triangles and

rectangles as guidelines to draw doors that open toward

them. While studying photos of British painter Charles

Hardaker’s images of doors, they students will practice

identifying the positive space. A step-by-stop drawing

page will support them with inventing creative ways of

sketching their doors.

Lesson 2 (Door #2): Students will use rulers

to create guidelines to help them draw doors

that open away from them. They continue to

draw rectangular door frames using

horizontal and vertical lines. A vanishing point will guide

their diagonal lines to create a trapezoid as the positive

space. They observe the triangles are above and below

the open door marking the negative space. Using a three-

step value scale, students will shade their artwork using

shading techniques.

Lesson 3 (Door#3): Students will learn to draw colorful

arched doors. They use basic shapes such as

circles and rectangles as guidelines. In

addition, they will use straight and curved

lines to add beautiful details. They will use

color, as a study value, to show intensity to

provide visual texture and shadows.

Sixth Grade


PAINTING WITH THE ELEMENTS Materials:

tempera cakes, assortment of primary

and secondary colors

1” wide bristle brushes

1” wide foam brushes

2" wide foam brushes



water cups

Product: Expressionistic paintings

Students will discuss abstract expressionist artist Robert

Motherwell. They will also review the art elements. They

will then paint in this style using tempera cakes.



papermaking.

PHILLIP CHARETTE: MASKS WITH VALUE Materials:

9” x 12” construction paper (black,

primary and secondary colors)

2-1/4” x 12” construction paper

(black, primary and secondary colors)

6” x 4-1/2” construction paper (black,

primary and secondary colors)

glue sticks

crayon sets, primary and secondary

colors

scissors

string (in loops)

Product: A paper mask that features wood textures and

symbolic elements

Students will be introduced to the contemporary

sculptural work made by Alaska Native artist Phillip

Charette. Students will learn how to create their own

two-sided, wood-textured mask augmented with personal

symbols. In keeping with Charette’s work, students will

be asked to consider a value that their mask will imbue.

PLAY WITH PERSPECTIVE Materials:

tracing paper (one sheet per student)

regular classroom pencils (Note:

mechanical pencils can work but are

not ideal)



glue sticks

erasers

tape (masking tape is good)

Product: A framed pencil drawing

Sixth grade artists will learn several artist ricks. One trick

will be fairly contemporary and the other will be about

600 years old! Students will learn how to transfer images

from a printed source and accurately recreate the image

on a blank piece of paper. They will also learn about

Renaissance artist Filippo Brunelleschi and his discovery

of one-point perspective. Artists will combine the

transferring trick and the one-point perspective trick.

Sixth Grade


PREHISTORIC CAVE ART Materials:

chalk: white, yellow and beige

oil pastels, peach and brown

charcoal


black and gray


manila and shades of brown

Product: A torn paper and drawing to look like cave-wall

art

Students will study cave art of the Paleolithic period and

then draw their own “cave-like art.”

PRINTING TO THE BEAT OF YOUR OWN TUNE Materials (included in the kit):

lesson plan

how-to movies on DVD

inspirational posters (five)

example posters (two)

wooden spoons (class set-for use

as barrens)

brayers (four)

take-home sheet/worksheet master

copy

Materials (not included):

glue sticks

scissors

8” x 8” railroad board or cardstock

(two per student)


assorted colors


printmaking inks, assorted colors

(four choices)

Product: A print inspired by musical notes and symbols

Students will make beautiful prints inspired by the

musical notes and symbols that they learn in 6th grade

general music class. They start by making three

thumbnail sketches and then develop a printing plate

based on their favorite design. Students learn about

fundamental printmaking skills, vocabulary, and tools,

and they are introduced to a very brief history of musical

notation.



and sizes

scissors

glue

markers, black







Sixth Grade


RIBBON ILLUSIONS Materials:

scissors

glue stick

pencils

thin-tip, black marker

oil pastels

6” x 9” construction paper, various

colors


6.5” x 9.5” construction paper,

black

4.25” x 5.5” white photocopy

paper

Product: 3D oil pastel drawing of a ribbon.

Students will combine the concepts of math, science, and

art while they learn about astronomer and mathematician

August Ferdinand Mobius, along with one of the most

popular illusionary artists, M.C. Escher.

Using analogous oil pastels, students draw

ribbons showing depth and perspective

when they shade and highlight the curved

lines.

ROMAN BUST PORTRAITS Materials:



and white

glue stick

scissors

Product: A 3D paper sculpture

Students will learn about the sculptured busts of ancient

Greece and Rome. Using paper sculpture techniques, they

will create a bust sculpture of themselves, adding

embellishments as needed.






dark green


brown

oil pastels

scissors

glue







construction.

Sixth Grade


SCULPTURE PROPOSAL Materials:

scissors

glue sticks

5" x 5" railroad board/card stock,

any color


(one per student

9" x 12" construction paper (one

pack of every color in your art

supply closet will do the trick)


(one per student)

Product: 3D paper sculpture

Students will be given the opportunity to see what it

would be like to develop a 3D proposal for a percent-for-

art sculpture for a school. The lesson includes:

grappling with project parameters

introduction to six types of triangles

creating thumbnail sketches for planning

purposes

introduction to and experimentation with paper

engineering techniques

exploring and considering various color palettes

attention to craftsmanship

brainstorming creative titles for sculpture

proposals

SHADING FORMS Materials:

pencil

charcoal

chalk, white

construction paper: black, white

and gray

Product: Drawings of simple curved forms using chalk,

charcoal, and light sources

Students will use pencil, charcoal, and white chalk to practice

making a value scale going from white to gray to black. They

will draw simple, curved geometric forms such as the cylinder,

cone, and sphere. Light sources and shadows are considered,

as they will learn to shade forms.

SHIRTS WITH WORLD PATTERNS Materials:


colors and white

paper pieces, small and colored

metallic paper

thin-tip markers, colored

thick-tip markers, colored

scissors

glue

Product: A shirt designed with motifs from around the

world

Students will design and cut out a shirt. They will study

motifs and patterns from around the world and then draw

a patterned design for their shirts.

Sixth Grade


SHOE DESIGN Materials:

large paper, white

markers, black and colored

paper cutter

Product: An original shoe or boot design

Students are introduced to master shoemaker Salvatore

Ferragamo's philosophy of shoe comfort and design.

Then, using their inventive imagination and foot

template, they will create a shoe for a personal need.

SHOREBIRDS: SENTINELS OF CHANGE Materials:

pencil

12” ruler

oil pastels


glue stick





Product: A 2D print

Students will learn that shorebird populations are

diminishing as a result of climate change. After

discussion, they will react to this topic and develop

thumbnail sketches, a printing plate, and an oil-based

monoprint of a stylized shorebird.

SPLIT-IMAGE DRAWING Materials:

pencil

erasers

ruler

Product: A face that is half-photograph and half-drawn

Students will choose a copy of half a face and, while

learning about drawing features, complete the other half

of the face.

Sixth Grade


TINWORK FRAMES Materials:

aluminum foil, heavy duty

pencils 1

pens without ink

scissors

Elmer's Glue™


mat board, heavy

photo or magazine picture

rulers

Product: a tinwork frame on an easel

Students will study the tinwork of New Mexico and

create their own frame. The tooling is done with inkless

pens as they learn the techniques of stamping and

embossing on tin. They will create their own repeated

patterns as they design the sides of their frames. Artists’

reproductions are available for those without photos to

frame.

TOOLS OF THE TRADE Materials:

colored pencils

pencils, regular

glue sticks

7" x 9" construction paper: tan,

gray and white


rulers, 12"

crayons, ideally unused (three per

student)

Product: Pencil drawing

Students will practice drawing cones, cylinders, and

cross-contour shading. After developing confidence and

familiarity with these forms and

techniques, students will go on

to make a drawing of a

miniature still life composed of

crayons (essentially a series of

cones and cylinders).

Sixth Grade





included.

Sixth Grade





watercolor paint

brush

paper towels

pencil

objects to draw

glue

drawing board


drawing




WRIGHT ANGLES Materials:

pencils

scissors

glue sticks


and grey

3” x 3” Post-it® Notes

Product: An abstract geometric art piece inspired by

Frank Lloyd Wright

Students will study how American architect Frank Lloyd

Wright incorporated his love of nature and geometry into

his many famous creations, and how they too can create

visually pleasing images. They will make connections

with what they know about basic geometric shapes by

applying some principles of design. They will also

challenge their thinking when they create new images

from existing architectural images.

WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD: TEXTURE Materials:

9" x 12" paper or scrap paper,

white

12" x 18" paper, white (precut to

10" x 16" for mounting)

colored pencils

scissors

glue sticks

Product: A colored architectural facade designed around

one or more textured shapes

Students will learn about Frank Lloyd Wright through

four of his architectural standards as seen in Falling

Water. Then, they will draw colored textural samples, cut

out a favorite, and use it as the inspiration for a house

facade design.

Sixth Grade


WRIGHT ON! Materials:

pencils

erasers

glue sticks

markers

4 1/2” x 12” construction paper:

black, blue, magenta, green

4” x 5” and 4”x 11” white

photocopy paper

Product: A matted, labeled, and colorful

Alaskan plant drawing using geometric

shapes.

Students will be inspired by American

architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s love of

nature and geometry. They will make a

leap from realistic to abstract art by viewing plant

images, and then reducing them to their simplest

geometric shapes using math templates and markers.

WRIGHT PERSPECTIVE, THE Materials:

markers

pencils

scissors

erasers

9”x 12” construction paper: white

rulers

Product: A cube-shaped anamorphic drawing

Students learned that Frank Lloyd Wright was an interior

designer, which means he spent a lot of time at his

drawing table. They used basic drawing tools, a straight

edge, and a pencil to learn to create an anamorphic

perspective picture. Their illusion artwork may appear

2D until you look at it from a particular angle and it

looks like it is 3D instead.

WRIGHT’S STAINED GLASS WINDOWS Materials:


scissors

Cellophane™, assorted colors

transparent tape

Product: A stained glass window

Students will take a look at many homes Frank Lloyd

Wright designed to see how he incorporated nature and

geometric designs into the whole house, including the

stained glass windows, rugs, and furniture. Students will

then design their own stained glass windows using

fractions and geometric designs.

Sixth Grade


YUP’IK ANIMAL MASKS Materials:


assorted colors


assorted colors

1" x 24" headbands

staplers

oil pastels

scissors

glue

Product: A 3D paper animal mask

Students will take a brief look at a Siberian Yup’ik

Village on St. Lawrence Island. Masks are used for

storytelling as they sing and dance about the animals

important to their lives. Students will relate animal

strengths to themselves as they choose the animal mask

they wish to make.

YUP’IK ESKIMO DIORAMA Materials:


and colors

2" x 22" railroad board, white

glue stick

scissors

oil pastels

tape

thin-tip ink pen, black

Product: A diorama of the Yup’ik Eskimo lifestyle

Students will learn about the subsistence lifestyle of

Yup’ik Eskimo people. They will create a diorama using

oil pastels depicting winter or fall activities.

ZENTANGLES Materials:



white

9” x 9” tag board


medium-tip marker, black

pencil

Product: A drawing with marker patterns

After sharing some of their thoughts, students will

explore an innovative way to approach drawing called

Zentangles. They will learn how to use different widths

of marker and a blending tool to add some depth to their

drawing. This pattern-based way of drawing builds

confidence in young artists.




Art Lines, Squiggles & Dots

Balancing Cactus

Birch Trees of Me

Busy Bodies

Cactus Practice

Caterpillars Become…

Chef’s Salad

The Colorful Day

Dance Fans

Dinosaur Fossils

Fields of Flowers

Fish Prints & Patterns

Friendship Train, The

Hats with Lines

Humpty Dumpty Becomes…

Hungry Hippos & Milton Bradley (revised)

I am the Star

Ladybug Colors

Monkey Business

My Funny Guy

My Good Luck Bag (revised)

Octo-Math

Over, Under & Roundabout

Painted Elephants from India

Pet Toys with a Purpose

Proud as a Peacock

See Through Colors

Snowflakes: No Two Alike

Snowman at Night

Snowshoeing & the Arctic Winter Games

Standing on Top of the World

Special education teachers are invited to use K/1 kits or others as appropriate.

— Art Appreciation Kits — — Art Trunks & Birds — Andy Goldsworthy: Art from Earth (4-6)





availability






Special Education – Adaptive


ABSTRACT COLOR WHEELS Materials:

• construction paper, black and

white

• tempera paint, primary colors

• glue stick

• scissors

Product: An abstract color wheel painting

Students will look at examples of art that are very real

and examples that are abstract. They will talk about

playing with art to make an interesting picture or

composition. Using primary colors and white, they will

“drag” the paint to make new colors and add shapes and

patterns to complete their work.

A COLOR BOOK FOR ME! Materials:

• file folders, letter size

• pencil

Product: A decorated “lapbook” that can hold a

sketchbook

The book, A Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric Carle, will

inspire students to inspire their own “chameleon

creativity.” Students learn how to rub, trace and draw

chameleons to decorate the cover of their lap-book.

Students may add to the lap-book as a unit progresses.

ANEMONES Materials:


colored


Product: A radial design painting of sea anemone

Students will travel with Mr. L-19, art teacher robot, on the

“Artship Centerprize” as he takes them on an exploration of

underwater life on planet Earth. They will focus on the radial

designs of sea anemones and learn brush techniques in painting.

Love those anemones!

ANIMAL CHARACTER PUPPETS Materials:

tongue depressors

crayons

glue

scissors

copies (template included)

Product: Combined images of animals to create stick

puppets and act out stories on their own

Students will examine how often animals are visible in

their world as in children’s books, television shows,

greeting cards, lunchboxes, etc. They will see that

animals can be depicted in many ways.

ART FROM THE BERRY PATCH Materials:

watercolor sets

brushes, medium

watercolor paper

Sharpie™ Markers, Black

construction paper, for mounting


water containers

Product: Pen/ink drawing/watercolor painting of a berry patch

Students learn about artists and illustrators who have been

inspired by berries! Edward Hofseth, Barbara Lavallee, Alice

Terstag, and Joanne Swanson are some from Alaska. Students

will examine berry illustrations from Blueberries for Sal by

Robert McCloskey and Berry Magic by Teri Sloat/Betty

Huffmon. They will create a pen/ink drawing of berries and

leaves with overlapping circles. Watercolor is then explored

with warm and cool colors and texture.



ART’S LINES, SQUIGGLES, & DOTS Materials:

crayons



and dark blue

construction paper: any size, red

and yellow

glue sticks

Product: An abstract primary colored drawing

Students will listen to the book Art, by Patrick

McDonnell, and try the variety of lines and colors used in

the illustrations. Students will create an abstract drawing

with lines, squiggles and dots in bold primary colors.



BALANCING CATCUS Materials:

9”x12” Construction Paper: black,

salmon, orange or yellow, tan,

dark green, medium green, light

green, magenta, orange, yellow

White tempera paint, liquid

Cardboard, 1” x 3” pieces

Glue stick

Product: Paper model of a Prickly Pear cactus

Students learn about the Prickly Pear cactus plant. They

work on hand/eye coordination by creating a sculpture

using a wooden balancing cactus toy. A paper model of

the sculpture is created using the same visual cues they

just learned. Texture (spines) are added using cardboard

stamping.

BIRCH TREES OF ME Materials:

water-based paint: white, red,

yellow and green

sponge brushes (four or five)

tissue paper, warm colors

Product: A hand and finger printed stand of birch trees

with torn paper underbrush

Seeing the forest for the trees! Students will learn that a

group of trees is called a stand and we especially look at

local stands of birches before trying a new printmaking

technique. The final product is a personal collage of

prints and tissue paper.

BUSYBODIES Materials:

pipe cleaners

beads, assorted sizes

markers, railroad board or poster

board

hole punch

glue

3/4” round stickers (for color

coding)

1-3/4” x 1/2” file labels, rectangle

size (bright colors work well)

Product: A colorful, moveable, pipe cleaner person with

beads as muscles

Students know that their bodies can move and groove but

even when you are perfectly still your body is very busy.

Basic body parts and body systems are talked about, and

students will create a paper and pipe-cleaner person to

bend and move.



CACTUS PRACTICE Materials:

Green tempera paint

Red tempera paint

Brown const. paper

Paper plates

Product: Printed barrel cactus on paper and soft cactus

toy

Students learn to draw a simple barrel cactus shape after

reading the book Hug Me, a story about a lonely cactus

named Phillipe. After their “cactus practice” they print a

cactus using a balloon and tempera paint. Students are

given their own soft cactus toy to hug.

CATERPILLARS BECOME… Materials:

construction paper

railroad board

tempera paint, washable

scissors

Product: A board with a caterpillar and a butterfly

Students will look at the process of metamorphosis from

egg to butterfly, seeing different shapes, colors, and

symmetry. They will look at the symmetry of the

butterfly, and then will make a caterpillar and a butterfly.

Students will then mount them on a board with an egg.

CHEF’S SALAD Materials:


of green

tissue paper, assorted colors of

green

metallic paper

white glue

washable paint, white and assorted

colors (at least three colors)

Product: A torn paper salad collage in a shiny metallic

bowl

A healthy dose of colors, shapes, and ABC’s all get

tossed in this lesson as students play chef. Inspired by

Lois Ehlert’s book Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and

Vegetables from A to Z, students will use torn paper and

sponge painting to create a textured filled chef salad.

COLORFUL DAY, THE Materials:


white

markers

glue

Product: A character puppet and storybook

Students will look at the story of Cassie’s Colorful Day

by Faith Ringgold. They will create a colorful, character

puppet head and a storybook with a simple sequence to

share aloud with their classmates.



DANCE FANS Materials:

tongue depressors

pre-cut circles

paint (in sponge bottles) or

markers

tape (colored if available)

yarn, feathers, etc.

bells (one per student, optional)

Product: A dance fan with face or faces

Students will look at pictures of real native dance fans

and how they are decorated. They will make their own

personal dance fan and dance with it.

DINOSAUR FOSSILS Materials:

Super Dough™

construction paper


glue, white

Product: A textured dinosaur fossil collage

Students will learn that much of what we know about

dinosaurs we know by studying their fossils. Through

fossils we know about dinosaur footprints, skin, and size.

In art today, we created our own fossils by imprinting

model dinosaurs in Super Dough™ and investigating our

imprints like a paleontologist.



FIELDS OF FLOWERS Materials:

Fake flowers (to look at parts)

9” x 12” (for preschoolers) or 18”

x 24” (for older students)


9” x 12” with 12” x 18” frame -


Colored sticky dots or use markers

Liquid Tempera: yellow, orange,

red, blue, green, & other bright

colors

1” foam brushes (easel brushes

will work if foam are not

available)

Paper plates, small

Product: Field of flowers painting.

Students look at Impressionist paintings that have fields

of flowers. They name colors and basic parts of a flower.

After putting sticky dots on the

paper, students paint flowers around

them using their brush in different

ways. They add stems, leaves, and

grass, and make their own field of

flowers. They sing their song and

show their art to others while

talking.

FISH PRINTS & PATTERNS WITH RAY TROLL Materials:

liquid tempera or washable paint

tissue paper

construction paper

glue sticks

oil pastels

Product: A fish print with oil pastel patterns

Description: Students will learn about the fishy artist Ray

Troll and look at the wonderful patterns in his artwork.

Students will then make a fish print and add lines and

patterns with oil pastels.

FRIENDSHIP TRAIN, THE Materials:


sidewalk chalk, colored

mural paper

picture copies of students

scissors

glue

crayons or paint

Product: Train cars with students’ photos in the window,

linked in a mural

Students will look at and talk about trains. They will

create a train car with their own photo in the window.

Each car will link together with all the others in a

colorful mural. They will learn to sing the Friends song

(Friends, Friends, Friends, 1-2-3, all my friends are here

with me!)



HAITIAN TAP-TAP BUSES Materials:

construction paper

white glue

paper scraps (i.e. magazine,

newspaper, neon, metallic paper)

oil pastels

Product: A brightly patterned bus collage

Students will learn about the country Haiti and one of

their main types of transportation, “Tap-Tap” (meaning

quick-quick) buses. These elaborately decorated taxi-

like rides attract business with how well they are painted

and with the cheery Compas music they play. Students

will make a cut-paper and oil pastel collage that is

inspired by the culture of Haiti and this arty bus tradition.

HATS WITH LINES Materials:


watercolor paints or tempera cakes

brushes, large

paper towel

water cup

staplers with staples

Product: A paper hat painted with an exploration of lines,

then decorated with lots of folded lines, topped off with

colored dots

Students will explore lines and line words. They will

paint lines and then fold their painting into hats. They

will then decorate it with many folded lines and colored

sticky dots. They will present their hat to others using

descriptive words, as they are able.

HUMPY DUMPTY BECOMES… Materials:

ribbon (for display only)

paperclips (for display only)

tag board, white (for display only)


1” to 2” torn paper pieces, white

liquid glue


Product: A torn paper watercolor collage

Students will approach the classic nursery rhymes with

new eyes as they are challenged to creatively construct

something from Humpty’s pieces. Watercolors are used

to give color to their collage and students will write or

tell about their ideas.

HUNGRY HIPPOS & MILTON BRADLEY Materials:

scissors

paper plates, plain white

crayons, peeled

construction paper: black, white, &

red

tissue paper, variety of colors

tongue depressors*

tape

stapler*

* Only for one version on the project.

Product: 3D interactive hippopotamus puppet

Students learn about game innovator Milton Bradley and his

company’s amazing games. They also learn that he was a big

advocate of Kindergarten, and was one of the first people to

group crayons together for student use. He was also one of the

first people to get pans of water colors into

classrooms and even wrote a book on it.



I AM THE STAR Materials:

railroad board (one sheet per seven

students)


glue

scissors

Product: A folded mobile with a star on top

Students will talk about why they are a “star,” listing

their strengths and things they do to be a good citizen.

They will look at the art of American artist Stuart Davis

and examine many shapes. Students will make a mobile

representing themselves with a star on the top!

LADYBUG COLORS Materials:

glue sticks

scissors

black markers

For the younger version:

wiggly eyes

construction paper:

o 1” circle, red

o 2.5” x 9.5”, black

o 4.5” x 12”, red, orange,

yellow, green, blue, & violet

For older/high ability students:

Construction paper:

o 4” x “4.5, red, orange, &

blue

o 2.5” x 9.5”, black

o 2.5” & 4.25”, black (2 per

student)

o 1/8” x 2.5”, black

o 6” x 9”, green

.75” x .75” white photo copy paper

Product: Construction paper ladybug displayed on a leaf

or on a rainbow, crayon trail drawn on bright colorful

paper.

Students help Little Ladybug find sparkly boots in a

rainbow of colors when they hear the story Colors with

Ladybug. They learn that ladybugs are really beetles with

many body parts, and creatures that love to eat aphids.

Construction paper ladybugs are displayed on a leaf or on

rainbow, crayon trail drawn on their colorful paper.

Creativity, colors, choice, and counting

are the focal points of this lesson.



MONKEY BUSINESS Materials:

10.5” x 13.5” construction paper:

white


6” x 12” construction paper: green

(for vines), light and dark brown

markers (large, colorful, 2 per

student)

glue stick

Product: 3D monkey swinging on a vine

Students use their fine motor skills to

link up toy monkeys in a chain, learning

a song to go along with the activity.

Then, they create monkeys from a

variety of 3D supplies, and draw or add

a paper vine to create a jungle habitat for

their swinging monkeys.

MY FUNNY GUY Materials:


glue or glue sticks

scissors (if appropriate)

Product: A funny “guy or gal” made by gluing pieces of

paper to a long mat board stick

Students will look at Karel Appel clown artwork and

discuss parts of the body. Using papers (pre-cut or they

can cut), they will build a body and add big eyes.

MY GOOD LUCK BAG Materials:

felt, assorted colors

scissors

24” yarn, various colors

wooden beads

pony beads

clear/masking

tape

pen/pencil

Product: A felt drawstring pouch.

Students learn that Alaskan Natives, and many other

cultures, make small pouches which are called amulet,

medicine, or good luck bags. Student exercise their fine

motor skills by sewing yarn through slits in a circular

piece of colorful felt. Then, they practice opening and

closing their Good Luck Bags by pushing and pulling a

wooden bead attached to their drawstring. Special items

are placed inside to wish upon.



OCTO-MATH Materials

school glue, white

texture tools (pencils, forks, etc.)

paper clips

Product: A small hanging sculpture of an octopus

showing a textured secondary colored body with pipe-

cleaner and beaded tentacles

Students get hands-on with an underwater subject, the

octopus. They learn interesting facts about the octopus

and create a small sculpture based on some of their

attributes. Students work with super dough and create a

secondary color through mixing primary colors. They

then add texture and patterns to their octopus sculptures

and use the eight legs as opportunities to practice math

skills.

OVER, UNDER, & ROUNDABOUT Materials

railroad board


construction paper strips

white glue

Product: A 3D playful class sculpture made of individually

designed and decorated lines

Students will look at Stella’s reproduction identifying shapes

and colors. They will then cut shapes from strips and glue on

long individual board. After stamping textures with white

paint, they will work together to build a class sculpture.



PAINTED ELEPHANTS FROM INDIA Materials:


9” x 12” construction paper, assortment

of colors


liquid tempera paint: magenta, yellow,

and blue (any color of paint that can be

mixed together will work)

paper plates (1 per student)

paper for work mats

Product: Colorful painting of an elephant

Student view photos of elephants that have been painted

in very colorful ways for the Elephant Festival in India.

Students engage in play using

colorful elephant shaped blocks,

learning the parts of an

elephant. Then, they use a

printmaking technique to make

their own colorful elephant

from a foam template using

paint and paintbrushes.

PET TOYS WITH A PURPOSE Materials:

fleece fabric, one print and one

solid

1-3/4” plastic ring (one per

student), or jelly bracelets (three

per student)

Product: A fleeced Frisbee®-like pet toy

Students will create simple fleece pet toys in bold colors

and patterns. Looping and tying skills are honed. These

toys can be donated to the local animal shelter.

PROUD AS A PEACOCK Materials:


blue or light green, blues, greens,

purples (for feathers)

liquid tempera paint: green, white,

purple

glue stick

Product: Students use paint and

paper to create a beautiful

peacock with its feather fanned

out.

Students learn about India’s

national bird: the peacock! Students look at real peacock

feathers and find colors and texture. Then, they use paint

and paper to create a beautiful peacock with its feathers

fanned out. A shiny head and crown of feathers finish off

the project.



SEE THROUGH COLORS Materials:



(if want frames)

Black, thick markers

Paper towels (to

soak up water as it’s

sprayed onto the

play boards)

Product: Overlapping shapes (faces, landscapes, etc.) and

colors.

Students explore and play with reusable, transparent

colors. The artwork is non-permanent and is designed to

focus on a sensory, artistic experience. Students will

learn shapes and colors, and also experience what

happens when colors overlap or “mix.” A background

drawing provides a context for creating faces,

landscapes, etc.

SNOWFLAKES: NO TWO ALIKE Materials:

index weight paper (for circles)

glue sticks

printing ink, white and silver

printing brayer (roller)

construction paper

Product: An abstract snowflake print mounted with the

plate and print together

Students will learn about William “Snowflake” Bentley

who “discovered” the beauty and science of snowflakes.

They will then make, print, and mount a snowflake.

SNOWMEN AT NIGHT Materials:

paper plates

liquid tempera paint: blue and white



liquid glue

white crayon (optional)

Product: Painted snowman on a

paper plate

Through play, students explore basic

physics using air as a propellant.

Pom poms swoosh through tunnels

and up ramps looking very much

like snowmen on a playground. After looking at photos of

snowmen, students use the pomp poms as painting tools to

make their own snowman.

SNOWSHOEING & THE ARCTIC WINTER GAMES Materials:

construction paper

bright copy paper, cut in strips

tissue paper, blue and white

glue sticks


Product: Printed black frames, paper strip webbing, and

tissue paper snow make up this snowshoe collage

Students will design and learn about snowshoes. They

will create a bright artwork that incorporates printmaking

and collage. Students will practice their cutting and

tearing skills producing a wintery scene with their own

special snowshoes. They will also learn about how

snowshoes work to keep us above the snow, their animal

inspiration, their history in Alaska, and its role in the

Arctic Winter Games.



STANDING ON TOP OF THE WORLD Materials:


and assorted colors

8” construction paper circles

(approx.), light blue

blue paint

round brush

scissors

glue

round stickers (for faces-optional)

Product: World with land, water, and “me”

Students will look at a globe, identify the land and water,

and then think about the top of the globe where Alaska is

located. They will make their own globe by painting

water, cutting out land and ice, adding their selves to the

top. Students will then share with the class and tell about

their art.

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