Kindergarten

Project:

Process:

Vocabulary:

Clay Snail

Coil, scoring (fork),

slipping

Clay, coil, score,

slip

Q-tip Mono-print

Print

Plate, print, roll

up, brayer

Line Landscape

Drawing

Shape-o-gator

Collage, weaving

Line Design

Turkey

Drawing,
watercolor
painting
Sculpture

Line, landscape,
space, aerial
perspective
Weave, collage,
warp, weft,
shape
Line types, line
directions,
watercolor wash
Sculpture, 2-d,
3-d

Shape Monster

Collage

Shape, color,
emotion

Artist/Culture:

Literature:

Kandinsky

Literary: Glad
Monster, Sad
Monster

Technology:

Standards:

First Grade

Project:

Process:

Vocabulary:

Owl

Clay

Clay, Slab,
impress

Sun or Buildings
Print

Print

Flower Pot

Drawing, Batik

Op Art or Kente

weaving

Plate, relief
print, roll up,
brayer, baren
Shape, 2-d, 3-d
Color:warm,
cool, bright
Weave, warp,
weft,

Seascape

watercolor
painting

Birds or
Beaded
pipecleaner
Waterlilies

Sculpture

Tissure Collage

Seascape, Aerial
perspective,
graded wash,
Wet-on-wet
Sculpture, 2-d,
3-d, kinetic, line,
shape/form
Impressionism,
color,

Artist/Culture:

Van Gogh

Bridget Riley
Victor Vasarely
or
Aftrican Art
Winslow Homer

Alexander
Calder
Monet

Literature:

Technology:

Standards:

2nd Grade

Project:

Process:

Vocabulary:

Dinosaur

Sculpture

3-d, proportion,
details,

Crayon Rubbing

Print

Under the Sea (?)

Drawing
Watercolor Resist

Clay Loom Circle

Weaving

Clay construction
staining, glazing
Weaving

Fruit Bowl
Painting

Tempera

Popsicle Stick
Color Theory or
Found Object
Assemblage

Sculpture- Mixed
Media

Printing, Indian
Rangoly,
Symmetry, color
Proportion,
space, detail,
color
Slab, bone dry,
fire, kiln, glaze or
stain, warp,
weft,
Still-life, space,
aerial
perspective,
color theory
Sculpture,
Found Object,
Assemblage

Fraction Art

Collage

Symmetry,
whole, half,
quarter, shape

Artist/Culture:

India Rangoly

Native American

Still-life
paintings of
various artists
Louise Nevelson

Literature:

Technology:

Standards:

3rd Grade

Project:

Process:

Vocabulary:

Artist/Culture:

Bird or Head
Sculpture

Clay- Pinch Pot

Clay, pinch, kiln,

fire, glaze, Moai

Easter Island
Moai

Collograph

Printing

Landscape

Drawing

Basket

Weaving

Plate, rolling up,

baren, brayer,
texture, balance
Foreground,
middleground,
background, space,
aerial perspective,
Regionalism
Weave, spokes,
weavers

Sumi Painting

Painting

Ink, strokes, sumi,

bamboo brush

Japanese

Chair Pop Up

Drawing

Van Gogh

Kaleidoscope
Collage

Collage

2-d, 3-d, space,

aerial perpective,
theme
Symmetry,
overlapping,
variety, line, shape

Grant Wood

Native
American

Literature:

Technology:

Standards:

4th Grade
Project:

Process:

Vocabulary:

Cupcake Box

Clay- mold,
pinch, coil

Architecture Printing
(Legos)

Printing

Laurel Burch Animals

DrawingMixed
Media
Weaving

Clay, mold, pinch,

coil, score, slip,
glaze, kiln, fire,
Pop Art
Stamping,
structure,
architecture
Pattern, space,
contrast,
repetition
Weave, loom,
warp, weft,
pattern
Landscape,
masking,

Stick Loom or Branch

Weaving
Landscape- Birch trees
or Tropical

Painting

Chihuly or
Bottle Masks

Sculpture

Organic Shape
Collages

Collage

Compass Art

Drawing

Papermache 3-d,
in-the-round,
repetition
Matisse, organic,
geometric,
balance,
emphasis, variety,
repetition
Symmetry, color
group, unity,

Artist/Cul
ture:
Wayne
Theibaud

Laurel
Burch
Native
American

Paul
Gaugain
Chihuly
African
Art
Matisse

Hex Sign,
Mandala,
Rose
Window

Literature:

Technology:
Cake Maker Game
http://www.nga.gov/kids/interactive/cake.htm

Standards:

Other ideas:
Archimbaldo Assemblage- photograph
Marbling
Found Object Stamping
Sun Prints
Bark Painting
Origami