Art Lessons (Grades K-2)

Faith Ringgold Quilts

Materials: 

• Fabric Squares Cut
• Watercolor Paper
• Watercolor paint
• paintbrushes
• paint cups
• pencils
• sharpies
• Elmers glue

Procedure:
1. Read to students Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold.
2. Give students white paper that has a border drawn around the edge of the paper. Show students how to draw themselves flying using shapes to create the body.
3. Students can then create the place they want to be flying over. We talked about using shapes to create things like houses cities, parks or wherever they may be in their picture.
4. They then outline their pencil lines with a sharpie marker. This makes it easier for them to paint in and looks better.

5. Students then paint in themselves first and then the rest of their pictures until their is no white showing.

6.Students take fabric squares and glue the fabric around the border of their painting.

 

Visual Aid for Faith Ringgold Lesson

 African Animal Masks:
For grades K-2, with some adaptations for younger students.
Materials Needed:

• Poster board
• Pencils
• Erasers
• Crayons
• Watercolor paints
• Water cups
• brushes
• scissors
• Elmers glue (liquid glue works better than glue sticks.)
• String or rubber bands

Here is the visual I used to teach the students about the African Masks.

These are animal masks kindergarten and first graders made.

We studied African Masks.

Kindergarten students had the shapes already cut out for them and they glued the pieces together. made tracers for the first grade students and they traced the shapes cut them out and followed directions to glue their mask together. They colored their masks in with crayons and then used watercolor paints to fill in any white spots that may have been left. I then cut holes for the eyes of their masks and put string or rubber bands for the band to hold it to their face.