First Grade Lessons

































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First Grade Material List

Art Terms and Definitions


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Begin by reading the lesson, then gather the materials for the project. Work through the project with the student to achieve the objective.

Each lesson builds on the previous one, so try to present each lesson in order to provide the student with the building blocks for a strong foundation to a comprehensive art education. There is a lesson per week for each grade level.



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First Grade Art Lesson 24

Working with Value, Part 2 Making a Skyline Silhouette


Objective:

The students will know what a silhouette is and cut out a city skyline silhouette to glue onto their value painting.


Materials:

Black construction paper, scissors, glue stick, value painting from last lesson


Procedure:

Does anyone know what a silhouette is? Have you ever seen your own shadow? Your shadow shows what your silhouette looks like. A silhouette is an outline of a person or thing that reveals to us what the outer edges look like. If you have ever traveled on a highway, particularly if the sun is setting in front of you, and come upon a city in the distance, what you will see is the silhouette of that city or skyline. These city skylines can be very interesting by showing the outline of the buildings that sit along the horizon. Today we are going to cut out an imaginary city skyline. You can decide what types of buildings you'd like to have across your skyline and we will cut out that silhouette and glue it on top of your value painting paper. First, on a scrap piece of paper you might work on designing a few ideas. Remember that buildings can be short or tall, square, round, rectangular or even have unusual shapes. Plan out a city skyline. Make variations in your buildings a skyline of equally shaped buildings is not as interesting as one that has tall and short, wide and narrow buildings creating visual variety. Once you have your idea, draw it off with pencil onto your black paper. Carefully cut along the edges of the skyline silhouette. On the same side that you drew on (the side with pencil marks) put glue from your glue stick around the edges of the silhouette. Glue the silhouette onto the value painting we did last week.


Conclusion:

Today we have learned what a silhouette is. You have created your own city skyline and put it onto your value painting of warm colors. Does it look like you are watching the sun set behind the city skyline? Be sure to mount your work and display it for everyone to enjoy.



Artwork and Examples used in this lesson


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