Art Curriculum
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September:
1. “The Dot” and Dot painting: Listen to story “The Dot”, use paint bottles and
create Dot paintings. Objective: Create a picture with different sizes and colors of
dots, recognize the dot is a circle.
2. Stamp squares and rectangles. Look at Mondrian’s artwork discuss shapes and
colors they see. Create a print by stamping square and rectangle sponge shapes
with red, blue and yellow paint.
3. Triangles. Introduce artwork with triangles. Trace triangle shapes and paint with
watercolor.
4. Use corks and spools to create and abstract circle and line painting.
October:
5. Cut Paper Shape collages: Glue geometric shapes to create a collage
6. Clouds- Eric Carle “Little Cloud”: Listen to story “ Little Cloud”, use white paint
and sponges and stencils to create clouds in a shape of something. Objective:
Create clouds that are recognizable shapes.
7. Shape Faces: Cut out geometric shapes glue them to create a face.
8. Paint a spider web, glue on spider
November:
9. Trace Pumpkins and color with crayons
10. Fall Leaf Prints “It’s Fall”: Listen to story “It’s Fall”, use paint bottles in warm
colors apply paint to leaf stamps and make prints. Objective: Recognize Fall
Colors, use stamps to make prints that repeat.
11. Leaf texture prints: Trace leaf stencils, color with crayons and texture plates.
December:
12. Cut Paper Snowmen: Trace small, med, and large circle stencils, cut and glue,
decorate with oil pastels. Objective: Recognize circle shape and the three sizes
small, med and large.
13. Snowy Tree Forest: Cut out 3 green triangle, small, med and big, cut out 3 brown
rectangles, glue onto paper to create trees, dab white paint with sponges to make
snow. Objective: Recognize triangle shape and the three sizes, recognize rectangle
shape, cut, glue, add texture with white paint.
14. Torn Paper Snowy Day Pictures: Objective: On a colored piece of paper draw a
snowy scene, ground, trees, houses, then tear up white paper into small pieces and
glue to make snow.
January:
15. Rainbow Crayons: Objective: Create a drawing of clouds on blue paper, use 3
rainbow colors of crayons taped together and draw a rainbow design.
16. Yarn Collage: Objective: Use 2” pieces of different colors of yarn to create a line
collage.
17. Fabric Collage
18. Foam Squares Mosaic Collage
February:
19. Heart Collage. Trace Heart shapes, color with texture plates glue to paper to form
a flower shape.
20. Tissue paper collage in cool colors
21. Found Objects Collage
22. Trace and paint hands- Trace hands with oil pastels, paint over with tempera
watercolor paints.
March:
23. Planting a rainbow: Read story and create a rainbow flower collage
24. Bowl of oranges. Create a still life with a bowl and oranges. Mix Red and Yellow
to make orange, paint the oranges.
25. Coffee Filter Flowers: Create a pattern or line design with watercolor makers onto
coffee filters, spray with water, glue to paper, glue on green paper stems and
leaves to create a flower. Objective: Create a simple pattern or line design.
26. Use corks to stamp and make caterpillars
April:
27. Playdough- Practice clay building techniques
28. Clay Tile Flowers: Roll out clay into a slab, cut out flower shape using stencil,
paint. Objective: Learn tile making method, rolling slab and cutting shape with a
stencil shape. Or clay heart pendants.
29. Texture Caterpillars-Create a caterpillar on a leaf, using predrawn caterpillar and
texture plates, cut out glue to leaf.
30. Waves at Sea: Create 3-D waves using strips of paper.
May:
31. Paint clay heart pendants
32. Swimmy: Listen to story and create a texture filled ocean scene.
33. Matthew’s Dream: Abstract draw and paint
34. Elmer the elephant: Tissue paper collage, trace and cut out elemer. Glue to green
paper.
35. Corduroy: Create torn paper bear collages
Kinder
September:
1. First Day of Art: Color in A for Art with a pattern. Pick 2 colors and make a pattern
in the A. Experiment with playdough when finished coloring: Roll a ball, a snake, cut
snake, make a pancake, etc. or Play color ball game, draw picture of family, play-doh,
I Can Fly DVD
2. Create a self portrait collage, color, cut and paste.
3. “The Dot” and Dot painting: Listen to story “The Dot”, use paint bottles and create
Dot paintings. Objective: Create a picture with different sizes and colors of dots,
recognize the dot is a circle.
4. Stamp squares and rectangles. Look at Mondrian’s artwork discuss shapes and colors
they see. Create a print by stamping square and rectangle sponge shapes with red,
blue and yellow paint.
5. Triangles. Introduce an artwork consisting of triangles. Trace triangle shapes and
paint them with tempera cakes.
6. Scribble line painting
October:
7. Cut paper shape collages
8. Fall Leaf Prints “It’s Fall”: Listen to story “It’s Fall”, use paint bottles in warm
colors apply paint to leaf stamps and make prints. Objective: Recognize Fall Colors,
use stamps to make prints that repeat.
9. Leaf texture prints: Trace leaf stencils, color with crayons and texture plates.
Objective: Create a repeated leaf pattern with texture.
10. Trace Pumpkins and color with crayons or Trace cut and glue pumpkins
November:
11. Clay faces
12. Texture Caterpillars: Read Carle’s Very Hungry Caterpillar, Discover texture by
putting objects into a bag to feel and describe. Create a caterpillar on a leaf using
stencils and texture plates.
13. Shape Faces: Cut out geometric shapes glue them to create a face.
14. Watercolor resist fish
December:
15. Chalk Stencil Prints
16. Texture Collage
17. Snowy Tree Forest: Cut out 3 green triangles, small, med and big, cut out 3 brown
rectangles, glue onto paper to create trees, dab white paint with sponges to make
snow. Objective: Recognize triangle shape and the three sizes, recognize rectangle
shape, cut, glue, add texture with white paint.
18. Cezanne’s bowl of oranges. Create a still life with a bowl and oranges. Mix Red and
Yellow to make orange, paint the oranges.
January:
19. Peace Flowers
20. Rainbow Crayons: Objective: Create a drawing of clouds on blue paper, use 3
rainbow colors of crayons taped together and draw a rainbow design. Read story
about rainbows.
21. Yarn Collage: Objective: Use 2” pieces of different colors of yarn to create a line
collage.
February:
22. Cut Paper Snowmen: Trace small, med, and large circle stencils, cut and glue,
decorate with oil pastels. Objective: Recognize circle shape and the three sizes small,
med and large.
23. Torn Paper Snowy Day Pictures: Objective: On a colored piece of paper draw a
snowy scene, ground, trees, houses, then tear up white paper into small pieces and
glue to make snow.
24. Texture Heart Flowers
March:
25. Clay heart pendants, or pinch pots
26. “Tall, Tall Grass”, Mix yellow and blue sponge paint, color and cut butterfly glue on,
cut grass glue on.
27. “Elmer”, Wet tissue paper staining paper, trace and cut out elephant stencil to create
3D elephant.
28. “Swimmy”, Mix red and purple sponge paint, color and cut out fish glue to painting
29. Planting a rainbow: Read story and create a rainbow flower collage
April:
30. Coffee Filter Flowers
31. “A Tiny Seed”, trace flower stencils with oil pastel, paint with watercolor
32. Color rainbow to color songs
May:
33. Corduroy: Create torn paper bear collages
1st Grade:
September:
1. First Day of Art: Listen to story: Art Is..,Color in A for Art with a pattern. Pick
2 colors and make a pattern in the A. Experiment with playdough when finished
coloring: Roll a ball, a snake, cut snake, make a pancake, etc.
2. Create a Self Portrait Collage
3. “The Dot” and Dot painting: Listen to story “The Dot”, use paint bottles and
create Dot paintings. Objective: Create a picture with different sizes and colors of
dots, recognize the dot is a circle.
4. Line watercolor painting- “Little Green”: Listen to story “Little Green”, create a
watercolor line painting. Objective: Recognize different type of lines and create a
line painting.
5. Clouds- Eric Carle “Little Cloud”: Listen to story “ Little Cloud”, use white paint
and sponges and stencils to create clouds in a shape of something. Objective:
Create clouds that are recognizable shapes.
October:
6. Fall Tree Torn Paper collage “It’s Fall”
7. Leaf texture prints: Trace leaf stencils, color with crayons and texture plates.
Objective: Create a repeated leaf pattern with texture.
8. Trace Pumpkins and color with crayons
November:
9. Symmetrical vases with fingerprint sunflowers. Look at van Gogh’s Sunflowers,
look at symmetrical objects. Make a symmetrical vase. Make sunflowers using
fingers and paint. Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Collage: Create a background with a
pattern for a table and wall, cut out a symmetrical vase. Paint on a separate paper
sunflowers, cut out and glue to picture.
10. Vases and Sunflowers continued- Cut out flowers and create an arrangement in
symmetrical vase. Listen to van Gogh Sunflowers story.
December:
11. Thiebaud’s Treats Counting Collage. Listen to storybook Counting with
Thiebaud. Objective: Create a collage of 3 ice cream cones with 1, 2, and 3
scoops.
12. Paint a snowy forest. Objective create a forest using triangle and rectangle
shapes, mix blue and yellow and paint trees green. Use sponges and white pain to
add snow.
13. Color Wheel Balloons: Color the color wheel with oil pastel cut out, cut out
brown square, yarn, glue to create a hot air balloon. Objective: Introduce the
color wheel, color it correctly.
January:
14. Color Collage: Objective: Choose a color, cut out objects from magazines that
color, paint a paper your color and set pictures into the paint, let dry.
15. Torn Paper Snowy Day Pictures: Objective: On a colored piece of paper draw a
snowy scene, ground, trees, houses, then tear up white paper into small pieces
and glue to make snow.
16. Yarn Collage: Objective: Use 2” pieces of different colors of yarn to create a line
collage.
17. Color a rainbow to rainbow songs
February:
18. Symmetrical Heart Flowers
March:
19. Quilt squares: Create a quilt pattern mosaic, create stamped border, put together
to make a group quilt. Clay Pinch Pots.
20. In the Small Pond: Read story and create a chalk and painted impressionist pond
scene
21. Swimmy: Listen to story and create a texture filled ocean scene.
22. Planting a rainbow: Read story and create a rainbow flower collage. Paint pinch
pots.
April:
23. Matthew’s Dream: Create an abstract painting, add a mouse and write a sentence
about what they see in their painting.
24. Elmer: Create a tissue paper collage, trace and cut out elephant, glue to green
paper add tropical trees from cut paper.
25. Decorate an egg- Faberge, Ukrainian egg designs: Objective: Using Faberge and
Ukrainian egg designs create a simple design for a predrawn egg shape.
May:
26. Shoe Fish: Trace shoe with pencil, look at pattern on bottom, turn drawing into a
fish and draw a pattern inside it, trace with oil pastels, paint over with blue
watercolor. Objective: Recognize a pattern in a real life object. Turn a real object
into something else (fish).
27. Corduroy: Create a texture torn paper bear collage.
28. Coffee Filter Flowers: Objective: Create a pattern with watercolor markers that
will transfer through coffee filter creating a radial design. Create a flower in a
garden picture with the filter as the flower.
June:
29. Texture Bunnies: Objective: Discover and talk about texture. Create visual
texture by drawing a “hairy” bunny; use a sponge and white paint to make the
bunny look fluffy.
30. Origami flowers and Thank You cards.
2nd Grade:
September:
1. First Day of Art: Listen to story “I Am an Artist”: Objective: Create and
decorate a journal/sketchbook. Begin a self portrait collage using a paper plate,
crayons, yarn and other collage material.
2. Line watercolor painting- “Little Green”: Listen to story “Little Green”, create a
watercolor line painting. Objective: Recognize different type of lines and create a
line painting.
3. Clay Faces with Expression and clay pinch pots
October:
4. Torn Paper Summer Trees with clouds- “Emma Rug”: Objective: Listen to story”
Emma’s Rug, discuss using your imagination, Create a collage of a summer tree
using torn paper, create clouds with recognizable shapes using white paint and
sponges.
Alternative: Discuss the 4 seasons and what the trees look like, what colors would
represent that season, what are the leaves and trees looking like? Read ”Emma’s
Rug” discuss imagination, seeing images in clouds, what do you see? Make clouds
in water tray with food coloring. Draw what you see. Students will chose which
season they want to depict and what shapes their clouds will be in.
5. Pumpkins in a Wagon: Objective: Create a picture of pumpkins in a wagon with
value. Use 3 shades of orange to create value shades.
6. Andy Warhol Pop Art Hand Prints
November:
7. The Five Senses- Create a self portrait displaying the five senses.
8.
Paper weaving placemats
9. Still Life with Grapes: Create a still life picture with a pattern background, a cut
paper symmetrical bowl and vase, paint fruit and flowers.
December:
10. Snowflake Snowman collage
January:
11. Color Wheel Balloons: Objective: Paint a color wheel mixing primary colors to
make secondary. Mix all colors and create a basket for balloon. Decorate keeping
in mind Birds Eye View Perspective.
12. Line Landscapes: Objective: Practice drawing different types of lines with line
worksheet. Create a landscape using different types of lines to represent the
foreground, middle and backgrounds.
February:
13. Monet Chalk Pastel Landscapes
14. Monet’s Japanese Bridge: Objective: Discover Monet’s garden through books and
video “Linnea in Monet’s Garden”. Create a print painting of Monet’s Japanese
Bridge.
March:
15. Eric Carle Bird Collage: Objective: Learn about the illustrator Eric Carle through
his books and a video. Create painted papers with texture in his style. Use papers
to create a collage of a bird. Write your own simple story about the bird.
16. Clay Pockets or Pinch Pots: Objective: Create a clay pocket using slab method
and stencil. Or create a pinch pot using hand-building technique. Glaze pots.
April:
17. Iznik Plates: Objective: Learn about Turkish Iznik ceramic designs. Create a
painted plate with Iznik inspired designs and patterns using paper plates, acrylic
paints, and varnish.
18. Elephant Parade- “Memories of India”: Objective: Learn about the parade of
elephants in India for the Feast of Divaali, through book and pictures. Create a
multimedia painting of an elephant parade.
May:
19. 3D Paper Elephants or animals: Objective: Create a 3-D cut paper elephant
20. Cut paper collages- warm/cool colors, geo/organic shapes: Objective: Create a
collage with warm and cool colors and geometric and organic shapes.
21. Cut paper hand puppets: Objective: Create a simple collage hand puppet out of
cut paper.
June:
22. Flip-Book Portraits: Objective: Create 3 faces showing happy, mad and sad
emotions using template of face. Add color, and cut on lines to create a flip book.
23. Origami Flowers and Thank You Cards: Objective: Create simple Origami
flowers.
3rd Grade
September:
1. First Day of Art: Listen to story “I Am an Artist”: Objective: Create and
decorate a journal/sketchbook. Begin a self portrait collage using a paper plate,
crayons, yarn and other collage material.
2. Abstract painting: Learn about the artist Jackson Pollock and create abstract
paintings using brushes, marbles, toothbrushes…
3. Clay: Clay pocket pots. Discover form, practice drawing 3-D forms. Create a
pocket pot from clay using the slab method.
October:
4. Thiebaud’s Treats: Printmaking with stencils. Create a stencil of a dessert and
print it using chalk pastels and add details with oil pastels.
5.
Leaf texture prints: Trace leaf stencils, color with crayons and texture plates.
Objective: Create a repeated leaf pattern with texture.
6. Glaze pots
November:
7. Begin scratch art. Look at the art of an abstract artist. Create a colored picture
using oil pastels, this will be the under layer for our scratch art. Scratch art. Look
at art of Paul Klee. Paint black layer over colored background. Create a collage,
cut up and glue colored papers to a background. Cut out windows from black
paper and glue on top. Create a scratch art design on scratch paper that they made.
December:
8. Color Mixing: Paint the 3 primary colors, mix them together to make secondary
colors.
9. Symmetrical Shapes Color Wheel: Using color mixing paintings cut each color
into a symmetrical shape and glue them to make a color wheel.
January:
10. Warm/Cool Color Collage: Objective: Work in teams of 2. Make a grid with 4
parts. Label them Warm, Cool, Mostly Warm, Mostly Cool. Cut out things from
magazines that fit and glue them into the category.
11. Shape Landscapes. Objective: Create a cool colored landscape collage using
shapes cut from colored construction paper.
February:
12. Chalk Sunset
13. Draw with Scissors: Objective: Create a collage in the style of Matisse using
organic shapes and warm and cool colors. 3 sesssions.
March:
14. Kachina Dolls: Create a kachina from collage materials that represents something
important to you. Learn about the Hopi and Navajo of the southwest. 3-4 sessions.
April:
15. Mexican Bark Painting: Objective: Create an artwork in the style and inspired by
traditional Mexican Bark Paintings.
May:
16. Abstract Shape Monsters
June:
17. Origami flowers and Thank You cards
4th Grade
September:
1. First Day of Art: Learn about Self Portraits. Objective: Create and decorate a
journal/sketchbook. Begin a self portrait collage using a paper plate, crayons, yarn
and other collage material.
2. Abstract painting: Learn about the artist Jackson Pollock and create abstract
paintings using brushes, marbles, toothbrushes.
3. Clay: Clay “taco” shaped fish. Discover form, practice drawing 3-D forms. Use
the slab method to create a “taco” shaped fish. 2-3 sessions
October:
4. Mondrian cut paper collages
5. Leaf texture prints: Trace leaf stencils, color with crayons and texture plates.
Objective: Create a repeated leaf pattern with texture.
6. Glaze fish
7. Skeleton or spider print
November:
8. Drawing Doodles Video
9. Watercolor Weaving. Look at the art of kandinsky. Create a colorful
watercolor painting. This will be the paper for our weaving.
10. Watercolor Weavings: Objective: Create 2 watercolor paintings inspired by
the order of the colorwheel. Use one as the warp and one as the weft and
create a paper weaving.
11. Papel Picado: Objectives: Create cut paper banners in the style of Mexican cut
paper banners.
December:
4. Metal Relief Mask Designs: Learn about symmetry and asymmetry and discover
Mexican Masks. Create a mask design in copper.
5.
Create a Navajo Blanket inspired print
January:
6. Color Mixing For All: Objective: As a table group experiment with mixing colors
with food coloring and water, create a record of findings on color experiment
sheets. Do one color pictures when done.
7. Chalk Cityscapes: Objective: Create their own stencil. Use chalk to create a print
and design their own cityscape.
8. Symmetrical Name Aliens: Objective: Using their name create a symmetrical
design and turn it into an alien.
February:
9. Story Quilts: Create an artwork inspired by Tar Beach. 3 sessions
March:
10. 3-D Line Design
11. 3-D Op Art Design
April:
12. Japanese Cherry Blossom Trees
13. Molas- Cut Paper
May:
14. Dancing Monsters
June:
15. Origami Flowers and Thank You Card.
5th Grade
September:
1. First Day of Art: Learn about Self Portraits. Objective: Create and decorate a
journal/sketchbook. Begin a self portrait collage using a paper plate, crayons, yarn
and other collage material.
2. Abstract painting: Learn about the artist Jackson Pollock and create abstract
paintings using brushes, marbles, toothbrushes.
3. Clay Project and wheel throwing
October:
4. Abstract Sculptures: Learn about the artist Joan Miro. Create a sculpture using a
wood block, wire and panty hose. Paint with white gesso then paint with acrylics or
tempera.
November:
5. Paper Weaving, practice for felt weaving
6. Create an overlapping weaving with felt and fabric
December:
7. Monochromatic painting: Using Blue and white create a monochromatic painting
of a moonlit night. Use black paper to make a silhouette landscape across the
bottom.
8. Shrinky Dink Art Jewelry: Use shrinky dink material to create a line drawing with
a focal point, color with permanent markers, shrink, punch a hole and place on a
ribbon add beads in a pattern. Or Mini Materpieces.
January:
9. Rainbows of Color: Objective: Draw a block letter on a white piece of paper.
Work as a group to cut out warm and cool colors from magazines and group them
into piles. Glue the pieces into place following the color pattern of the color
wheel.
February:
10. Animation Cels: Objective: Create your own cartoon character. Create a flip book
of your cartoon character/object.
11. Comic Strip: Objective: Create a comic strip featuring their cartoon character.
March:
12. Paper Building: Objective: Create a 3-D artwork from cut paper using various
paper manipulation techniques.
13. 3-D Portrait Heads: Objective: Create a 3-D paper portrait using paper
manipulation techniques.
14. Clay Project
April:
15. Abstract Portraits: Objective: Learn about the artist Picasso and his abstract
portraits. Create an abstract portrait in the style of Picasso showing a profile face
view and front face view in one.
16. Paper mache masks.
May:
17. Keith Haring Action Figures: Objective: Learn about the artist Keith Haring and
recognize his work. Create an artwork from cut paper showing figures in action
and using complementary colors.
18. William Wegman Montages: Objective: Learn about the photography of William
Wegman. Create an anthropomorphic montage using pictures of people and
animals.
June:
19. Origami Flowers and Thank You cards