Lesson Plan Submitted by Peggy Bennett,
Elementary art teacher at Marrington Elementary in Goose Creek, SC.
Grades: 1st - 2nd
Materials:
Procedure:
At the 1997 NAEA conference in New Orleans, one of the sessions was on box
sculpture. This would be a great activity for first or second graders.
Simply, each child paints a box using primary colors. This may take as
long as an hour depending on the size of the box.
The next lesson
students learn how to mix secondary colors. Secondary colors are
provided for them to paint patterns, lines or designs on the boxes. The
boxes are then taped closed.
The final activity is having the students
create one large sculpture using all the boxes. Students add their box
one at a time. Walk around it, take it apart and do it again. In the
end they each have their own box to take home. Very age appropriate
activity and a nice introduction to 3D art and sculpture.
Resources
Books
Primary Cats
- Features three cats, one red, one blue, and one yellow, who meet. Each time they touch, their colors blend to make the appropriate secondary color. When Red and Blue shake, for example, their paws turn purple.
Let's Play Colours
- Let's Play Colours features Wallace the teddy bear and his friends learning about colours. Illustrated with brightly coloured felt/collage illustrations
