Lesson 4 Plan: Spooky Watercolor Washes

Spooky Watercolor Wash Lesson Plan

Name of Art Scholar: Sunny Leavitt

Name of Teacher: Shellie Olsen

Subject Concepts		Art Concepts
Content Covered:       Mood and setting drawn from literature		Content Covered:       Fine motor skills, color effects, create seasonal moods and settings
State Standards & Objectives      (USOE/UEN): Reading Literature Standard 7: Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events		State Standards & Objectives (USOE/UEN): Integrated Core Objective 3b: Express how colors, values, and sizes have been controlled in artworks to create mood, tell stories, or celebrate events.
Learning Outcomes:     The student will be able to…         Depict a mood in their own artwork based off the atmosphere and setting in a piece of children’s literature. They will be able to replicate the same emotion.		Learning Outcomes:     The student will be able to… Develop their fine motor skills and depict a landscape and Halloween mood through crayon use of color and a dark watercolor wash.
Lesson Plan
1.     Read “Pumpkin Pie” to children. 2.     Identify some of the moods and emotions created by the illustrator’s use of color and setting. 3.     Brainstorm with children different Halloween object examples (ghost, pumpkin, bat, witch, scary tree, etc,.). 4.     Display on the overhead and example of deep use of color to have the kids model their crayon work after. 5.     Talk the kids through setting and moods as they depict their own landscape. 6.     Once crayon work is done, allow students to quickly brush over their paper completely with the watercolor wash. 7.     Admire the spooky effect and allow to dry/clean up.		Materials Needed: ·       Art construction paper ·       Crayons for each child ·       over head for display ·       pencils for each child ·       cups for each table full of watered down black tempera paint (this creates the wash)

As always, these plans are based off of the Utah Education Core Standards and can be viewed at http://www.uen.org/core/

Anyone is more than welcome to use any of my lesson plans! What's the point of art education if we can't build off of each other's ideas?