Elementary Lesson Plan Format
Name: _Rachel Stockbridge _______
Lesson/Unit: ___If I was Royalty, I would wear…___
Grade Level: ___2nd_Time:__90 minutes Learning Standards: 1_X__ 2_X__ 3_X__ 4__X_
1. Type of Activity:
Weaving, Sculpture Making
2. Preparation:
Precut looms with slits, have yarn measured (approximately) in lengths slightly longer
than width of loom, spray paint cardboard looms white (or use foam core)
Materials:
Cardboard (foam core) looms, gingerbread man stencil, pencil, warp string, tongue
depressor ‘needles,’ hot glue gun, hot glue, scissors, ruler, tape, scrap lengths of yarn, strips of
felt, cloth, aluminum foil, and wall paper, lengths of ribbon and lace, feathers, pipe cleaners,
beads, paper for stencil, markers, glue, visual aid, and book: The Emperor’s New Clothes by
Hans Christian Andersen.
3. Lesson Goal:
1. TSW create a woven version of their royal robes.
2. TSW learn weaving techniques and explore looms.
3. TSW be introduced to and analyze the artwork of 17th and 18th century court painters.
4. TSW learn about monarchs in European countries during the 17th and 18th century.
4. Lesson Objectives:
1. TSW create a woven version of their royal robes by referencing historical examples of
robes and imaging the type of robe they would like.
2. TSW learn weaving techniques and explore looms by using an interactive visual on
looms and creating their own woven piece.
3. TSW be introduced to and analyze the artwork of 17th and 18th century court painters
by viewing and discussing the detail and realism in the works.
4. TSW learn about European monarchs by comparing the images of royal court
paintings.
5. Vocabulary:
 Warp, Loom, Weave, Emperor.
6. Instruction:
Section: 1
Time: 25 minutes
Read an abridged version of the story, The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen.
Introduce vocabulary words (loom, weave, emperor, monarchy) during the reading.
Discuss the rest of the vocabulary words using the large loom on the visual aid.
Show the class the paintings of Spanish, English and French monarchs of the 17th and 18th
century.
Ask the students: What materials do you think those clothes are made of? How long do you think
it took to make those clothes? (Remind students that there wasn’t any electricity when these
robes were made) Would you like to wear robes like these rulers? How would your robes be
different or the same? How do the clothes change from painting to painting or how are they
similar?
Introduce the idea of weaving royal robes to the students and have the students (silently) imagine
what they would wear if they were royalty.
Remind students of cool and warm colors from previous week’s lesson. Instruct students to
choose materials for weaving that are either cool or warm colored.
Explain that the students are going to put warp on their looms, ask three students to repeat steps
to each teacher, if they are able, allow students to collect supplies for the table and pass out the
ball of string to students in their group.
Demonstrate how to put the warp on the loom while the children work on their own looms.
Explain how students are going to weave short lengths of material across warp once using the
visual aid.
Allow students to move to all supply stations in room, supervise and prevent arguments over
materials.
Tell students they are to use the scissors on the supply table to cut the materials they need, not to
carry the scissors around with them.
Monitor students work and correct mistakes
Section: 2
Time: N/A
Have students who have finished working on their loom, take a piece of paper, a pair of scissors
& markers, and using a stencil, draw/cutout/color a human figure to add to the back of their
loom.
Explain that the students only need to color the face, hands and legs because the loom will cover
the rest.
Hot glue any extra long materials hanging off the sides of the loom while the children make their
people.
Have the students paste their cut out paper versions of themselves onto the backs of the loom so
that the loom now has arms, legs and a head.
Attach a triangle support to back of loom so that the ‘robed monarch’ version of the student
stands on its own.
7. Activity:
Section: 1
Time: _40 minutes_
After students have listened to story and demonstration, and supplies have been handed out,
TSW put warp on their looms (Also the students will put their names on the back of the loom in
pencil).
Students will select materials to weave from various stations in room.
Students will cut materials to appropriate lengths (slightly longer than width of loom)
Students will weave their ideal royal robes using materials provided.
Section: 2
Time: 15-20 minutes
Students will get a piece of construction paper (and scissors) and a gingerbread like stencil and
trace.
Students will use markers to color in features on traced figure.
Students will cut out their figure.
When the students have cut out their figure they will pick up their loom and glue the figure to the
back of the loom so that the face is directed in the front.
The students will return the loom to the hot glue gun station to get a stand and base attached.
8. Closure:
Time: _ 10-15 minutes___
Clean-Up: Have students from each group pick up scraps in the whole room of the materials on
their supply table. Assign one color group to pick up paper scraps, a second to pick up fiber
scraps, and the third to pick up scissors, pencils and markers. Have students line up finished
artwork along countertop.
Have students say whether the project that is to the left of their piece used cool or warm colors.
Extension: Have students make crown shaped name plates for display with work by using scrap
from figure and cutting to design their royal crown. The students can use markers to color jewels
onto their crowns as well.