Kindergarten Term 2

Visual Arts - Animals

MAKING
VAES1.1 Makes simple pictures and other kinds of artworks
about things and experiences.
VAES1.2 Experiments with a range of media in selected forms.

Frogs
Using paper plates, create a frog by painting the paper plate. Add eyes,
arms and legs to the plate. Fold the paper plate in half and stick the tongue
inside.
Butterflies
- Paint colourful patches on a butterfly outline and fold to spread paint.
Art Appreciation
Introduce Piet Mondrian and view a collection of his artworks. Talk about
geometric shapes, lines and colours used. Discuss the concept of abstract
art.
If time permits, give students a piece of art paper and some pre-cut
rectangles & squares of various sizes. Students can create their own
Mondrian inspired abstract artwork.
http://www.kinderart.com/arthistory/abstract.shtml
Fancy Fish - Imagination Drawing
- Begin discussing the difference between realistic and imaginative drawings
as well as paintings vs photographs. Present a collection of different
artworks and images of fish, particularly include fish from storybooks.
- Demonstrate how to draw a fish but allow students to draw any type of fish
as along as it has a body, mouth for eating and tail for propelling and fins
for steering.
- Encourage fancy shapes such as curly tails, crowns, eyelashes, bubbles,
dots, stripes etc.
- Students can use watercolour paints to paint their fish. Glitter paint/glue
will be used once watercolours dry to make the fish even more fancy.
- Fish will be cut out and mounted onto black or dark blue paper. Students
can add different shapes to create a habitat such as coral or seaweed.
http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2014/09/09/fancy-glitter-fish/
Peacock - Bleeding Tissue Paper
- Students lightly draw an outline of a peacock and then draw 5 lines upwards
and outwards for the tail.
- Using coloured pencils, or oil pastels, students colour in the body of the
peacock.
- Students use small sections of tissue paper to bleed the colour onto the
tail area. Put a small section of tissue paper onto the page. Wet the brush
with water and dab (dont rub) the brush onto the paper. The tissue paper
will stick to the page, although once dry will fall off and the colour will
remain on the page.
Panda Painting
- Students lightly draw an outline for the panda, including the area needed
for the black eye circles.

Resources

Teaching & Learning Activities

Week

APPRECIATING
VAES1.3 Recognises some of the qualities of different artworks
and begins to realise that artists make artworks.
VAES1.4 Communicates their ideas about pictures and other
kinds of artworks.

Paper plates
Paint
Scissors & glue

Art Paper
Paint for
butterflies
Paper shapes

Art Paper
Watercolour
paints
Glitter
Mounting paper

Oil pastels or
pencils
Tissue paper
Art Paper

Art Paper or use

coloured paper
for a different

Sign

Students sponge white paint onto the paper to create the head and body of
the panda. Using a new sponge, dab in black paint and use to create the
ears, eyes and arms. Pay close attention to not mixing or smudging the
different paint colours.
- If available, read Chengdu Could Not, Would Not Fall Asleep by Barney
Salzberg before commencing artwork.
Giraffes
- Demonstrate how to draw a giraffe using the letter h as a guide. Add a top
hat for the head, horns and a tail. Bubble write/draw around the h to fill
the animal out.
- Cut out the shape and decorate it with brown/orange pencil. Also add eyes,
mouth etc.
- Stick shape onto black paper.
- Cut out small triangle from green paper to create grass on the artwork.
Lions Face
- Using an outline of a lions face, students colour the face using oil pastels.
Students are taught and encouraged to blend and smudge the oil pastels this is a new skill.
- Students paint the background with light blue edicol dye.
- Once dry, the students are given different coloured strips of paper. These
strips are complementary colours to the colours used in oil pastel. The
students are taught to wrap the strips of paper around the stem of a pencil
to curl it. These strips are then glued around the face to create the mane.
Hippo Craft (not completed in Term 1)
- The idea is to use complementary colours for the background, background
paint, hippo. For example/ shades of purple.
- Use a wide brush to paint small textured patterns on coloured paper. Stick
some sequins to represent the body of fish and paint their tails. At
bottom on page, paint a section of green and scrape it with a fork or back
of paint brush for texture.
- Cut out the shape of the hippos body, head and legs from a darker purple
card stock. Stick the pieces of the hippo together and onto the water part
of the page. Add joggle eyes to face.
- Glue a crinkled strip of light blue tissue paper over the body of the hippo
to create the water.
http://www.iheartcraftythings.com/search/label/Hippopotamus
Birds with Piet Mondrian influence
- Students draw a simple outline of a bird in profile
- Inside the bird the students fill the bird with a chosen shape, eg/squares,
circles, hearts etc
- Using the influence of Piet Mondrian, colour the birds beak yellow, add blue
to some of the shapes inside and glue red feathers for the tail.
- Once dry, students trace the outline of the bird and the shapes with black
marker. Cut the bird out and mount on black paper.
Turtles
- Students draw a simple outline of a turtle onto art paper (very light).
- Students use white oil pastel to trace over their turtle.
- Using watercolour paints, students can decorate their turtle (encourage
imagination & creativity).
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background
Black & white
paint

Yellow, green &

black Paper
Pencils, scissors
& glue

Art Paper &

outline
Oil pastels
Edicol dye blue
Coloured strips
of paper
Glue

Art Paper
Paint
Hippo outline
Joggle eyes
Tissue paper
Scissor & glue

Art Paper
Colour pencils or
paint
Black markers
scissors
Lead pencils

Art paper
Oil pastels
Watercolour
paints
Marker