Art lesson plan

Florida Early Learning and Developmental Standards for Four-Year-Olds 213

V. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE FOUR-YEAR-OLDS Related Skills Within The Standards I. Physical Development

D.1., D.2., D.3.

II. Approaches to Learning

C.1.

V. Cognitive Development and General Knowledge

A.c.1.c., A.c.4.a., A.c.4.b.

Teacher Tips Children with special needs are children first and can enjoy all forms of the arts. Environmental Considerations Include a variety of art materials and supplies (e.g., nature items, commercial products, household objects), as well as adequate space for displaying pictures, clay creations, and block structures.

D. Creative Expression Through The Arts a. Visual Arts 1. Explores visual arts As their attention span grows, four-year-olds are able to stay involved in creative art activities for longer periods of time. Four-year-olds experiment enthusiastically with art materials and investigate their ideas through drawing, painting, sculpture, and design. They exhibit a sense of joy and excitement as they make and share their artwork with others. Examples illustrating this standard include:  experimenting with different materials to see what happens (e.g., painting

with a dry brush, wet brush, stick, or fingers)  manipulating clay in different ways (e.g., patting, rolling, dropping, pinching)  touching different textures  tracing and creating patterns  making and combining different shapes, marks, forms, and textures  mixing colors.

Supportive Instructional Strategies:  Introduce different art materials, tools, and supplies on a regular basis (e.g.,

recyclables, string, straws, wire, clay, rollers, buttons, scissors, cotton swabs, cotton balls, aluminum foil, felt, feathers).

 Ask open-ended questions to stimulate children’s imaginations about the use of materials (e.g., “What happens when you mix two colors?”, “What else might you paint with?”).

 Model how to combine basic shapes, lines, and forms to create pictures (e.g., combining a triangle and square to make a house, or an oval and triangle to make a fish)

 Discuss how the use of color can express a mood or feeling in an artwork.

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