Elements and Principles

Color: Has three properties. 1. Hue- names of colors 2. Value- lightness and darkness of a hue 3. Intensity- purity of the hue
Subject: beach towel

Lines: marks made by a pointed tool-brush, pencil, stick, pen, etc. and is often defined as a moving dot.
Subject: Movie shelf in my living room

Shapes: an area that is contained within an implied line, or is seen and identified because of color or value changes. Can be geometric or organic.
Subject: Street signs outside my house

Space: three-dimensional volume that can be empty or filled with objects.
Subject: Laundry basket

Pattern/Repetition: uses the art elements in planned or random repetitions to enhance surfaces of paintings or sculptures.
Subject: My deck

Footprint Art

For this lesson you will need:
-construction paper
-crayons, markers, coloring pencils, paint, etc.
In this lesson, we traced our feet onto the construction paper. You can do one or both of your feet; it doesn't matter. After you do this, you tell the students to describe themselves on the footprint without words. Tell them to draw anything that can help describe them so they can introduce themselves to the class. This can be a great activity to help the students get to know each other and you.

Another activity that could be a great ice breaker would be to make a mini scrapbook of each student. You will need construction paper, string, and pictures of each student. Have them answer questions on the construction paper like: What did you do for summer vacation? What is your favorite animal? What is your favorite food? What do you want to be when you grow up? etc. Then have them string the papers together and then put a picture of the student on the cover of the scrapbook. Then have them displayed in the room so the students can look at everyone's to get to know each other.