Create a Landscape Different Perspective Art Lesson

April 04, 2017

Create a Landscape Different Perspective Art Lesson

Grade 3rd, 4th, 5th

Create: "Into the Forest"
Objective: TLW create a forest from the perspective of being in the forest looking out.

Landscape showing foreground, middle ground, and background.
The students love this lesson. Each student is encouraged to use a variety of media to achieve his/her vision of "Into the Forest."
Create is about choices:

trees
medium or medias
colors
size of paper

All media must be available for truest form of create. Oil Pastels, Chalk Pastels, Tempera, watercolors, markers, crayons, sharpie pens, color tissue paper, magazine for color only, construction paper, poster board strips, and yarn. It can be a nightmare so, breathe, and organize your room and teach expectations for respect materials and where they belong. It's been almost a year with all materials available to the students to access and I have been very happy with the set up. Yeah, I know, some oil pastels get mixed in with chalk pastels or crayons. Argh..... I just calmly go over expectations again.

Materials available for choice:

I have found that making the materials available everyday easier if you have a set place for them. I have a "wet" table with paints, brushes, containers, and "nasty" rags. A "dry" table with oil pastels, markers, chalk pastels, color pencils, yarn, and crayons. Under the "dry" table are the cardboard boxes with an assortment of cardboard scrap pieces, poster board scrap pieces and a box of color tissue paper. Another section of the room has the "paper" table. This table has several types and sizes of paper to choose.

White paper
Black construction paper
Color construction paper
Oil pastels
Chalk pastels
Watercolor
Tempera paints
Crayons
Markers
Color tissue paper
Coffee filters

K and 1st grade can only choose two colors at a time. They can return the two and exchange them for two more. ********THIS WILL HELP CONTROL YOUR ORGANIZATION!!!!****

2nd and 3rd grade may need more cleanup time. You will find the areas that get clogged up with one medium lesson will not happen with multiple media choices.