Lesson Plan: Falling Leaves

Landscape

Leona HaskillMcDaniel

Oil paint, canvas

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Title

Falling Leaves

Kindergarten - 2nd grade

Crayons and tempera paint

- Visual texture – made to look like it is rough, hard, soft etc.)
- Actual texture – made with real surface that you can feel
Warm and cool colors
- Warm – red, orange, yellow
- Cool – green, blue, purple
Parts of a tree: crown, nodes, parent (trunk) & children (branches), roots, leaves

Fall leaves from different trees. If you have time, have the students pick from school yard/trees.
Pencils
Crayons – square crayons or large crayons with paper removed
Black tempera paint
White paper
Paint brushes
Paper towels

Write name on one side. Turn over.
Fold paper in half taco style. Unfold.
Demonstrate how to make crayon rubbings by using the side of the crayon. Fill the page.
Create leaf rubbings (actual texture) with crayons and real leaves over entire page as follows: top ½ warm colors & bottom ½ cool colors
Draw tree using Y-pattern over top of warm and cool colored background with pencil. Start by drawing roots in cool half. Next draw trunk and crown on warm half.
Paint over pencil lines with black tempera paint. Dip paint brush into paint and wipe lightly on inside of container to remove excess paint.
For smaller lines, may wipe lightly on paper towel as well. Paint lines to fill in trunk and branches and create bark as a visual texture. No water needed

Talk about the artworks:

Students can tell what texture is and know the difference between actual and visual texture.
Students can list warm and cool colors and explain why they are different.
Students can tell the parts of a tree.
Students use art tools materials safely and properly as instructed.