Activity Information:
Name of Activity/Description:
“Tear Art” Students
will paint with glue on black construction paper and then ‘tear’ scraps of
colored paper and place them onto the black piece. Children can create any
scene, depending on the season; Thanksgiving scene will work for this one, since
it is November.
Curriculum Area: art, language development, and fine motor
skills
Children: kindergarten or 1st grade, 4-7
Assessment/Rationale:
I chose this
activity because it lets the students create their own work with no prepared
shapes or patterns. Children can express their creativity using this form of
art. Their artwork of Thanksgiving may reflect on their own personal experience
or ideas of this topic, which will result in individual work.
Objectives:
Children will
be able to express their feelings of Thanksgiving through ART. Children will be
able to understand another form of art to express their feelings through
artwork.
Space/Materials:
black
construction paper, glue, colored scraps, may use tissue paper
Procedure:
Introduction:
Discuss with the
students what they might see during whatever topic is being used, Thanksgiving.
Have students brainstorm what is seen during this time and allow questions to be
asked to foster more ideas.
Teaching Sequence: Students will understand the concept of
making whatever designs he or she wants to, there is no right or wrong.
Closure: The instructor can have the children tell about their
pictures to the class.
Evaluation:
Students will
know one form of artwork to use in the future. Children will know that is no
right or wrong in art activities unless told otherwise. Students will be able
to make any scene or design using tear art.