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Dance with Your Fingers, Draw with Your Toes Lesson PlanDance with Your Fingers, Draw with Your Toes Lesson Plan
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Missoula Art Museum
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2nd - 3rd
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Visual & Performing Arts
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Dance with Your Fingers, Draw with Your Toes

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Pair dancing, music, and art into one elementary lesson. Using the work of Henri Matisse and Rudy Autio as inspiration, kids spend a few days listening to music that fits the moods of various pieces of art, then work on their own paintings. The resource includes two additional lessons on Matisse and Autio, one of which involves building a vessel out of clay, and the other prompts kids to study different paintings for comparison.

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Concepts

dancing, henri matisse, sculpture

Additional Tags

abstract impressionism, henri matisse, rudy autio, dancing, art lesson, clay art projects, sculpting, Saint Anthony of Padua painting, visual and performing arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Create vessels with another medium, such as construction paper or papier-mâché

Classroom Considerations

  • The second lesson requires the use of clay and access to a kiln

Pros

  • Comes with prints of the paintings you will need for the lesson

Cons

  • None

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