05 January - Wood Sculpture I - 1st

Secondary color wood sculpture Part one: This is a two part lesson. In the first part the students learn to mix secondary colors and will be painting wood shapes. In the second part they will use these shapes to create a sculpture. If a student has missed the first lesson he can create the sculpture first and if there is time, paint it after it is constructed.

Objective:
In this first part of the lesson the object is to give the students hands on experience mixing colors and creating secondary colors. They will also be learning about what sculpture is.

Materials:

Scrap pieces of wood

Tempera paint

Paintbrushes

Water and water containers

Empty yogurt or margarine containers

paper plates

Set up:

- Put wood scraps in the middle of each table.

- Prepare palettes (paper plates) with red, blue and yellow paint

- Pull out some drying rack shelves, put a piece of paper for each student on the shelves. Put the shelves somewhere that is easily accessible for the kids.

Discussion:

1. With the kids seated on the rug explain the project. Tell them they will be making a sculpture. Ask what the difference between a painting and a sculpture is - you can look at a sculpture from all around, top, bottom, the sides and sometimes even look through them. Tell them this will be a two part project and the first part will be adding color.

2. Then you can ask them what their favorite colors are. At some point, maybe after someone has said red, yellow or blue, ask them what is special about those colors - you can use them to mix all the other colors. You can go over the primary color combinations and the secondary colors they make. Tell them that they will be painting at least one piece of wood in each of the primary colors and then they will be mixing the secondary colors and painting at least one piece of wood each of these colors.

3. Demonstrate how to mix colors.

4. Dismiss kids to tables

5. Lay out a pile of wood scraps on the each table and encourage students to pick and choose a number of pieces each.

6. As they finish painting each piece, have them place them on a piece of paper (with their name on it) on one of the drying rack shelves. (So at the end of class each kid will have one piece of paper on the drying rack with his name written on it and all of his/her wood pieces on it.