Texture, Texture EVERYWHERE!

*This semester, we will focus on one Visual Element of Art per week

Title: Texture, Texture Everywhere!

Project: Students will learn about texture by filling in a line drawing with rubbings of textures around the playground, including the roughness of the asphalt, the wavy blades of grass, the smooth plastic of the playground, etc.

Goal:

-Continued learning of the Elements of Art

-Knowledge of the unlimited amount of textures in your own backyard!

-Use of imaginations!

Materials:

-journals

-crayons

-stack of photocopied scene

-mock up

Set Up:

-Set up tables in large rectangle

-Put out journals

-Pair journals with coloring supplies

-Hold onto photocopies for texture rubbings until journals are away.

Timeline:

-Students are to sit down

-Write in journal

-Introduction of student teachers

-Ask each student to share finished journal entry

-Collection of journals after with explanation that the teachers will write back for next week

Texture Talk:

-Give instruction of the day’s project by passing out the prepared copies.

-Show mock up, explaining that the image is filled with rubbings of the textures around the playground.

-Note that it is the texture within the image that defines the separate spaces, i.e.: we know this is the building because it matches the same rough texture across the page.

-Lead the class outside and let them loose!

-Tell them to try every surface! See what happens when you hold the paper to the brick and make a rubbing, and compare it to how a rubbing of the grass looks.

-When finished, return to classroom.

-Present!

-Clean up.

Journal Question:

What do you like to do when it is warm outside?