This project can be used for the holidays or in reference to the winter season. It will introduce students to oil pastels to create a snow globe on paper.
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THE PLAN
2 sessions; 40 minutes per session
1. SWBAT blend oil pastels.
2. SWBAT create the illusion of a 3-D glass globe on paper.
3. SWBAT create a snow globe with proper subject matter.
1. Black construction paper
2. Oil Pastels
3. Large circle pattern (I use 8" diameter circles)
4. Glitter (optional)
1. Demonstrate how to create the snow globe: Lay the circle pattern on the paper. Using two colors of oil pastels, "flick" color onto the paper from the circle pattern, out. This will make a hard line around the pattern and a soft glow towards the end of the line. Draw in the base and a horizon line.
Have students spend the rest of the time creating their subject in the snow globe.
Optional: Allow students to add glitter flakes to their snow globe.
I usually use this as a quick project right before the Christmas break, but it can be used for the winter season in general.
I also think it would be a great project to use if students were studying a particular city with known architecture. You could create a "tourist shop" snow globe for that city...it would be a way to incorporate architecture into this project as well.
Another way to use it would be to create a snow globe for fairy tale characters/stories!
THE STANDARDS
Visual Arts Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes
[5-8] Students intentionally take advantage of the qualities and characteristics of art media, techniques, and processes to enhance communication of their experiences and ideas
Visual Arts Standard 2: Using knowledge of structures and functions
[5-8] Students select and use the qualities of structures and functions of art to improve communication of their ideas
Visual Arts Standard 3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas
[5-8] Students integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with content to communicate intended meaning in their artworks
[5-8] Students use subjects, themes, and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values, and aesthetics that communicate intended meaning in artworks
Visual Arts Standard 4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures
[5-8] Students analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of time and place (such as climate, resources, ideas, and technology) influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art
THE FEATURES
Color/Value, Form, Rhythm/Pattern, Shape, Texture
Drawing, Pastel
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