Leaf stencil Design
Grades 1-5 2
–40 minute art classes
Goal: Students will be able to design an over all
pattern from a single shape.
Students
will be able to use overlapping to create color blends.
Students
will understand the effects of using a stencil.
Objective: Introduce
vocabulary words such as pattern, stencils, overlapping, and Repetition.
Reinforce
primary colors and how to create secondary colors by overlapping.
Introduce concept of warm and cool color
groups
Materials: Various samples of “real” leaves
(shape and color)
Tag
paper pre cut into 3x3” squares or 3x5” for longer leaves.
Colored
pastels (or colored chalk)
Black
or blue construction paper cut into 4½” x11”
Scissors,
pencils, newspapers (to cover desks and to use as “work folder” for unfinished
work)
Inexpensive
hair spray
Procedure: Pass
out leaves for students to look at.
Discuss their
shapes, colors, and size. (How are they different how are they alike etc.) Explain to students there are thousands of
leaf shapes in the world so they don’t have to worry if their leaf does not
“look like” specie they can recognize.
Encourage students to use the natural shape of leaves as an influence
for their shapes.
Have students draw their leaf on the tag in pencil. Cut out the leaf as one piece. Try to maintain the positive shape of the leaf as well as the negative shape created by the outside. The students will be able to use both pieces.
(Blue is the neg. shape and the white is the positive)
Fold tag to start cut on dotted line.
Use
Chalk pastel and “color thick line around the shape of the stencil as I did in
yellow above. With one finger rub the
line from the center of the leaf to the outside to get a star burst
effect of color. Continue rubbing all
around shape then remove stencil and repeat procedure with another color right
on top of the yellow. Etc.
Do
the same thing on the negative shape, as shown above in red. Rub from OUTSIDE to the center to
create the inside shape. Continue to
repeat shapes, encourage overlapping and going “off the edge” until they are
satisfied with the balance.
I
use the hair spray to spray the pastels from smearing. (I usually do this after
school with the windows open of course)
I
return them to the students and they mount their art on a contrasting color
background paper and add a nametag to bottom.
Lesson plan submitted by:
Paula Schinski, Elementary Art teacher, Midland School, Paramus, NJ