4 sessions; 40 minutes per session

1. SWBAT draw a person in a new and interesting angle.
2. SWBAT express in art, their favorite food(s).
3. SWBAT use oil pastels to create their art and use cut paper to create the food collage.
4. SWBAT show their interpretation of the book “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”.

1. 12 x18 blue paper
2. oil pastels
3. pencils
4. sharpies
5. large white paper

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1. Ask students if the have seen the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Tell them about the book. Read “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” by Judi Barrett. Ask the students how the book was different than the movie?

2. Discuss with the students what types of food are their favorite and what would they like to rain down on them.

3.Explain that they will be drawing a child looking up and catching falling food from the sky.

4. Demonstrate how to draw the child.
-Using a pencil on large blue 12 x 18 paper, students will draw a circle for a head with a small button nose on top.
-Students will add a neck and shirt. The shirt must have a few sections with patterns and lines.
-Students will add a large mouth with teeth and a tongue.

5.Students will trace over their lines with a sharpie.

6. Students will color in their drawing using oil pastels. They will be shown how to blend with the oil pastels and told that they should use blending on the shirt of their child. They will be shown how to color in the large mouth with either black or grey so it doesn’t look like a hole through the head.

7. Teacher will model how to draw a cloud. Students will draw a bumpy line that goes around the entire page and connects. They will then cut this cloud out and glue it to the top of the paper with their person on it.

8. Students will use scraps of colored paper to create their food falling from the sky. I will explain the collage technique and that all of the details should be created with paper and not drawn on. Students will use glue sponges to glue their food on to their papers. They should create about 5-6 piece of food and glue them on the cloud and falling down from the cloud.

1.Did students draw the correct perspective and details on the child they drew?

2.Did the students draw their favorite food?

3.Did the students use oil pastels cleanly and correctly.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barret

It's a new take on the art lesson where the kids are catching snowflakes on their tongue.

[K-4] Students use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories

[K-4] Students use art materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner

[K-4] Students know the differences between materials, techniques, and processes

[K-4] Students describe how different materials, techniques, and processes cause different responses

[K-4] Students use visual structures and functions of art to communicate ideas

[K-4] Students know the differences among visual characteristics and purposes of art in order to convey ideas

[K-4] Students describe how different expressive features and organizational principles cause different responses

[K-4] Students select and use subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning

[K-4] Students explore and understand prospective content for works of art

[K-4] Students understand there are different responses to specific artworks

[K-4] Students describe how people's experiences influence the development of specific artworks

[K-4] Students identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum

Henri Matisse

Proportion/Size, Variety, Form, Line, Movement

Collage, Pastel

English/Language Arts