AE17.VA.K.1

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): KG - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.K.1
Engage in self-directed exploration and imaginative play with art materials.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
EQ: What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?

Skills Examples

Create two-dimensional artworks using finger painting, watercolors, paper collage, and rubbings.
Create three-dimensional artworks using techniques such as rolling, folding, cutting, molding, pinching, and pulling clay.
Work with a partner to create works of art.
Working in small groups, use recycled materials to create artworks.
Explore the books Why is Blue Dog Blue? by G. Rodrigue and My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss to understand color meanings and moods.
Read the book Lines that Wiggle by Candace Whitman to explore different styles of line.
Safely use and share scissors, pencils, crayons, markers, glue, paints, paintbrushes, and clay.
Use symbols to help tell a personal or make-believe story.
Manipulate art media to create textures and patterns.
Identify and use organic and geometric shapes to create works of art.
Show respect for self and others while making and viewing art.
Use the primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) to create a free-style painting while singing the names of the colors.
Use patterns in designing colored stripes on the shirt of a person you know.
Collect found objects such as paper tubes, forks, and pieces of cardboard. Press them in shallow tempera paint, and stamp them on paper to show printmaking.
Create a T-chart that separates cool (blue, green, and purple) and warm (red, yellow, and orange) colors in different columns. Use the symbols of water waves for the cool column header and the sun for the warm column header.
Work with a partner to find colors, lines, and shapes in art and tell each other what you see.