Project/Unit Description/Expedition
In this lesson students are traveling around the world looking at masks of different cultures. While viewing many different examples, their job is to think about the most interesting masks, shapes, colors, and designs they observed. Once they arrive back home, they will create a mask that shows what they experienced and saw. Students will create their mask using what they liked most and thought was interesting after viewing many different examples of artist’s masks.
Students will use their choice of color of foam as the base of their mask. They will practice cutting and gluing skills to create a shape of their mask and cut out foam shapes to glue on top of their bottom layer. After using the foam, students will choose other collage items to add to their masks to make it complete.
Essential Understanding
Artists make art about the world around them
Inquiry/Learning Target
Students will practice and improve their cutting skills with their mask and foam shapes. They will also learn how to properly use collage items, and lay out their items to plan and make a visually interesting composition.
Key Concepts
Observe
Collage
Influence
Expression
Skill(s)
Properly using scissors and glue
Able to use and attach collage items
Able to layout a visually interesting composition
Art Focus
Students will focus on cutting and gluing interesting shapes from different colors of foam and using them along with other collage items to create a visually interesting composition.
Literacy Focus
Students will discuss their chosen shapes and colors and how they enhance and show meaning in their masks.
Documentation
In this week’s art lesson, students explored the mask making and how to properly glue and cut their materials to use for their masks. They will pick out the base color of foam they would like to use for their mask, cut the shape, and then cut more additions out of provided foam of different colors to add to the base layer. After completing their work with the foam, students will be able to choose other provided collage items and add them to enhance their mask designs. Students will be encouraged to use many colors, shapes, and collage items to create a mask that can create an emotional response and have an engaging composition.
In this lesson students are traveling around the world looking at masks of different cultures. While viewing many different examples, their job is to think about the most interesting masks, shapes, colors, and designs they observed. Once they arrive back home, they will create a mask that shows what they experienced and saw. Students will create their mask using what they liked most and thought was interesting after viewing many different examples of artist’s masks.
Students will use their choice of color of foam as the base of their mask. They will practice cutting and gluing skills to create a shape of their mask and cut out foam shapes to glue on top of their bottom layer. After using the foam, students will choose other collage items to add to their masks to make it complete.
Essential Understanding
Artists make art about the world around them
Inquiry/Learning Target
Students will practice and improve their cutting skills with their mask and foam shapes. They will also learn how to properly use collage items, and lay out their items to plan and make a visually interesting composition.
Key Concepts
Observe
Collage
Influence
Expression
Skill(s)
Properly using scissors and glue
Able to use and attach collage items
Able to layout a visually interesting composition
Art Focus
Students will focus on cutting and gluing interesting shapes from different colors of foam and using them along with other collage items to create a visually interesting composition.
Literacy Focus
Students will discuss their chosen shapes and colors and how they enhance and show meaning in their masks.
Documentation
In this week’s art lesson, students explored the mask making and how to properly glue and cut their materials to use for their masks. They will pick out the base color of foam they would like to use for their mask, cut the shape, and then cut more additions out of provided foam of different colors to add to the base layer. After completing their work with the foam, students will be able to choose other provided collage items and add them to enhance their mask designs. Students will be encouraged to use many colors, shapes, and collage items to create a mask that can create an emotional response and have an engaging composition.
Students began by choosing a color for the base of their mask. Their task for the mask was to cut, layout, and glue the foam shapes properly. The students explored different shape ideas and used glue to add them on top of their base color.
Students were given a variety of foam and were able to pick and choose what shapes and colors they wanted to use to make a visually interesting composition for their mask. As shown in these photos, after students decided on shapes they wanted they arranged them onto their mask where they would be glued down. |
At one table, a student was having a hard time cutting out the shape he wanted with the foam and received advice from his table mate. "If you draw your shape first with pencil and then cut it out it makes it easier because there are lines to follow."
This was a good observation and helped the student cut his shape more accurately.
This was a good observation and helped the student cut his shape more accurately.
In this video, the student explains and demonstrates how he used his scissors to cut the shape he wanted to use on his mask. |
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Next students could choose from our collage item table to add to their mask! The items they could choose from included pom pom balls, yarn, feathers, and floral pieces.
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Students were provided different items to add to their mask if they felt like they needed more items. In this video the student describes the possible options she could use the yarn for. |
Students made good discoveries about gluing objects that were not flat like the foam. "the flowers don't sit flat, the yarn gets sticky, and you have to use more glue," were all good observations that the students had to think about and find solutions when finishing their masks. For stubborn items they were not able to get to stick, students asked the teachers for help with a glue gun.
The images below demonstrate the process and different steps taken by one particular student starting with foam and adding collage items during the lesson and how they arrived at their final product.
Students were very creative with their masks and each mask had its own unique quality and personality!