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Sea Turtles Underwater
Students discuss different types of sea turtles. They talk a about the characteristics of sea turtle anatomy. Students pretend to look over the edge of a boat in the ocean. They pretend to see a sea turtle. Students create their artwork...
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Words on Water
Students use books to find quotes about or related to water. They use the subject or the style of the quote to inspire them to create their own famous words and paint a watercolor picture to accompany it.
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Sunset in the Egyptian Desert
Students spend time examining pictures from different books on Egypt and the pyramids. Using construction paper, they draw what they believe the desert looks like based on the pictures. To end the lesson, they use watercolor paint to...
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Technology - Identity - Watercolor
Young scholars use a grayscale digital photo of self and draw the texture of their hair in a linear fashion. They create a background which relates to the PTA Reflections contest using the internet as a resource.
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Watercolor Techniques
Students practice using watercolor paints in this lesson. They observe basic techniques used with watercolors and then try them. They use the internet to discover more techniques they could use.
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Artist in Schools Program
Students explore the medium of watercolor paints. They observe basic watercolor painting techniques (such as wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry and dry-on-dry). Then students experiment with these techniques on small squares of watercolor paper.
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Walk into the Desert, A Line and Wash Landscape
Students discuss a landscape art print and its composition. They create a landscape underdrawing with foreground, middleground and background as well as repeated elements for rhythm. They add a watercolor wash and lights/darks for...
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Sequential Still Life
Sixth graders identify and use the concepts of shading, outline, and watercolor wash. They design a unique sequential still life painting with pencils and watercolors.
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Chinese Art: Botanical Motifs
Students are introduced to Chinese Art and how artists used botanical motifs. They look at slides of motifs and then create a watercolor themselves. A functional motif will be created by them and they have to provide its meanings to...
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Welcome to the Sahara Desert
Students explore their artistic skills. In this Sahara Desert lesson, students use the Internet to research the Sahara and paint a watercolor picture depicting the desert.
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Grandfather's Journey
Third graders explore world cultures by reading a children's story in class. In this Japanese heritage lesson, 3rd graders read the book Grandfather's Journey and identify the characters, setting and plot that takes place. Students...
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Dan, the Flying Man Comes to Our Town
Students listen to a story called Dan, the Flying Man. Students then make a class book describing what Dan would fly over if he came to town. Students illustrate the book using watercolor paints. Students write their stories using a word...
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Near and Far Snow People/an Art lesson
Students explore the concepts in art of near and far by drawing landscapes and snowpeople. They first draw and later do watercolor and oil pastel paintings.
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Magic Bubble Prints
Learners use magic bubbles to create designs on paper, and they are encouraged to relate their designs to objects they have seen in the world. They create a bubble print painting using a bubble and liquid watercolor mixture.
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Talking With the Animals
Students simulate a conversation with an animal. Using watercolors and markers, they draw a picture of their favorite animal. Students imagine a conversation with their animals about their thoughts and feelings.
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Architecture Composite Using Sharpies and Watercolor
Students develop an understanding of the nature of nineteenth century architecture and it¿s "borrowing" of other period architecture by creating their own composite. The focus and inspiration for the project is found in looking at...
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Getting to Know Your Flat Brush
Students investigate different art tools. In this art tools lesson, students examine the flat brush. Students explore the effects that can be created with this tool.
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Nature Art Exploration
Young scholars draw a nature landscape using watercolors. In this life science lesson, students share their personal experience on the beauty of nature. They create clay models of different native animals.
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Bearden Art-Making Workshop
Students are able to create their own collages using some of the same kinds of images and materials Bearden used. They put to use some of the Bearden techniques they observed in the reproduction/slide lecture and explore to...
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Flowers, Flowers, Flowers...A Visit with Georgia O'Keeffe
Young scholars analyze, discuss, and research Georgia O'Keeffe and her flower paintings. They select a flower to paint and create a watercolor painting in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe. Students compose a poem describing their painting.
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Purple Color Shade Matching
In this color instructional activity, students analyze an example of a target color wheel of 5 shades of purple. On the blank target, students try to match the shades of purple as closely as possible using crayons, colored pencil or...
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Watercolor Techniques
Learners explore the medium of watercolor paints. They observe basic watercolor painting techniques and experiment with these techniques on watercolor paper.
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Wheels and Rainbows
Fourth graders produce 4 small works of art that be pasted or glued onto the back of the colored construction paper. They choose crayons, watercolor markers, watercolor paints, or colored pencils to produce their designs.
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Frogs, Fabulous Frogs
Students have the opportunity to both interpret and replicate the different shapes and textures observed in the life cycle of a frog. When students apply the watercolor wash to the crayon texture rubbings the designs take on a...
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