This fun 3 day lesson incorporates the elements of art; Shape, Color, Line, Form, and Texture! We also review overlapping, and crayon wax resist painting throughout the lesson.
Kids finished them up JUST in time for Valentine’s Day!
DAY 1: CREATE WARM TISSUE BACKGROUND
Students glued pre-cut warm colored tissue paper onto a sheet of 12×18″ tagboard using watered down glue. They glued an area of the paper first, then tissue, one piece at a time, then applied another thin layer of glue on top of each piece. This ensured the tissue laid flat and stuck to the paper.
Students were encouraged to overlap as they glued pieces, and to fill up the entire paper.
BUT… in the end, I think the beautiful artwork created was well worth the mess and clean up
DAY 2 – CONTINUE GLUING TISSUE / CREATE PLANE
Students continued gluing tissue until their paper was filled in entirely. Then they each received a sheet of 8.5 x 11″ medium weight tagboard with a pre-printed outline of a plane. (I drew the plane ahead of time and photocopied them)
Students drew a variety of lines and/or shapes using crayon, pressing hard inside their plane, leaving a bit of white background showing.
Once colored to their liking, they painted over the entire plane using watercolors, creating a crayon-wax resist. Students could paint with whatever colors they wanted. Planes were set aside to dry along with their tissue backgrounds until the next class.
DAY 3: ADD PLANE AND HEART!
Students cut out their planes, and glued using a glue stick to their tissue paper backgrounds. Then glued on the cotton batting for the planes smoke in the shape of a heart!
I demonstrated how to take SMALL chunks from the bag, and pull with their fingers creating a thinner line of “smoke” before gluing into place. This was the trickiest step! Kiddos did great!!
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