Are you as ready for Halloween as I am? I hope so! I love this time of year because of the parties, spooky movies, parties, and of course trick or treating. So it's no surprise that this past week's lesson was on Frankenstein and spooky settings.
This lesson was a guided drawing, which if you don't know, means that I showed the kids step by step how to make a specific Frankenstein image. I will not always use this method, but I've found it helps at the beginning of a project to get it moving. The students were very pleased with their pictures and so were me and Mrs. Green. Here are some of the finished images:
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Aren't these just great?
The next lesson we did was on settings. The students learned what settings and characters were, as well as different ways they could represent a setting to make it peaceful, spooky, fun, romantic, etc. I did a quick demo of a night scape with a simplistic abandoned house with broken windows, spider webs, monsters, and graves. This was to give them ideas of what they could include in their own pictures. Some students included traps, ghosts, blue moons, and fire. I loved seeing their imaginations at work. I wished we had more time so each student could explain their picture to their neighbor or the whole class. Since this drawing was a free style drawing instead of a guided drawing, they were a little messier and harder to recognize, but the creativity behind them was strong and made their drawings individually interesting.
I forgot to take photos of their drawings, so once take those, I'll post them.
'Til next time!
Mrs. Kelli Brown
Art Scholar
I love your Halloween inspired lesson ideas. What a fun treat! I also thought it was great that you used two different teaching methods to create a final product. One had the students design their own settings using their imaginations. The other had them follow specific directions to create. Both practice different skills and push their creativity in new ways. Nice work!
ReplyDeleteLooks awesome! I think a guided drawing is great way to start off a lesson. They look really awesome and well done. I love how you then allowed them more creativity with imagining and creating their own setting!
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ReplyDeleteFor kindergarten, I think that a guided drawing is a great way to add some structure to an otherwise potentially overwhelming situation. It looks like the kids really got the hang of things and were able to realize that breaking down the process makes art a little less daunting. Maybe I'll try this breakdown process with my second graders if they aren't grasping the concepts as well as I expected. Thanks and good job!!
ReplyDeleteThe students really enjoyed this lesson and were completely engaged. They were also very proud of their work.
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