Description:
In this lesson, we made a castle using shapes and crayons. She showed us a PowerPoint about German artist Paul Klee to introduce her lesson. He is famous for using shapes and bright colors that complement each other. This makes them stand out in his paintings. We based our project off of his painting "Castle and Sun." First, she had us cut a 2-in strip off the top. We then cut shapes out of the 2-in strip. I cut a square, rectangle, triangle, and trapezoid. We were then instructed to design our castle and use the shapes we cut out to build the castle. Since we based our drawing off of Klee's painting we had to have a sun or moon at the top of our paper. Once we built/drew our castle in pencil we traced it in black sharpie. To finish our castle we used crayons to make a colorful castle. It was important we either colored the castle light or dark and then the background had to be the opposite to make the castle stand out. This lesson was designed for Kindergarten.
Extension Activity:
One activity that I would do that is based on this project is to have students cut out all of the different shapes we have been learning about in Math class. This would be a project students would complete after they have learned all their shapes. Students would have to have at least one square, circle, triangle, rectangle, and hexagon in their drawing. I would also change that they could make any building they want to, but they would still have the sun or moon in the sky. To finish their building they would color the different shapes making a colorful and bright building. They would then pick a background color that would make the building stand out.
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