To have children create a cave drawing using line and shape with story elements.

Vocabulary:  Art Elements, Gesture Drawing, Contour Lines, Geometric Shapes, Organic Shapes, Free-Form Shapes, Subject Matter, Overlapping, Warm Colors, Cool Colors, Neutral Colors, Story Elements, Narative

To have children create a representational, abstract, or non-objective drawing with a compositional structure.

Vocabulary:  Composition, Compositional Movement, Compositional Structure, Sequential Composition, Representational Art, Abstract Art, Non-Objective Art, Expressive Qualities, Distortion

To have children paint a complementary color still-life with value (using tints, shades, and tones).

Vocabulary:  Color Scheme, Achromatic, Monochromatic, Complementary, Analogous, Still-Life, Value, Tints, Shades, Tones

To have children create a representational collage or photomontage with an analogous color scheme.

Vocabulary:  Representational Art, Photorealistic, Photomontage, Theme

To have children paint an everyday object with various color schemes.

Vocabulary:  Hue, Saturation, Surrealism, Pop Art

To have children paint a still-life with repetition, rhythm, and/or pattern.

Vocabulary:  Principles of Art, Repetition, Rhythm, Pattern, Grid, Motif, Still-Life

To have children create a tessellation using shapes and colors.

Vocabulary:  Space, Positive Shape, Negative Shape, Tessellation, Interlocking

To have children use positive and negative spaces to design and carve a clay tile.

Vocabulary:  One-Dimensional, Two-Dimensional, Three-Dimensional, Sculpture, Positive Space, Negative Space, Construction, Additive Process, Subtractive Process, Casting

To have children create an assemblage with shapes and forms.

Vocabulary:  Assemblage, Found Objects, Open Form, Closed Form, Symbol

To have children paint their dream home by designing with geometric, organic, and irregular forms.

Vocabulary:  Geometric Forms, Organic Forms, Irregular Forms

To have children draw the same outdoor scene using a horizon line in different positions to show the scene from two different points of view.

Vocabulary:  Point of View, Eye Level, Bird's Eye View, Worm's Eye View, Emphasis, Space, Horizon Line

To have children paint an outdoor scene using placement and proportion.

Vocabulary:  Perspective, Proportion, Placement, Compositional Movement

To have children paint a mountain landscape using atmospheric perspective.

Vocabulary:  Atmospheric Perspective, Diffusion, Focus, Foreground, Middle-Ground, Background

To have children use linear perspective to draw a street scene.

Vocabulary:  Linear Perspective, Vanishing Point, Converging Lines

To have children arrange objects into a natural sculpture.

Vocabulary:  Environmental Art, Installation

To have children create a flip book with a figure that shows movement.

Vocabulary:  Narrative Art, Pose, Figure, Proportion, Movement

To have children paint a watercolor portrait with facial proportion and expression.

Vocabulary:  Portrait, Expression, Facial Features, Facial Proportions

To have children create a printed self-portrait with visual texture and focal point.

Vocabulary:  Self-Portrait, Focal Point, Tactile Texture (Actual), Visual Texture (Implied)

To have children sculpt a clay portrait using tactile (actual) texture.

Vocabulary:  Classical Art, Ideal Form, Realistic, Bust

To have children combine two sketches into an abstract portrait.

Vocabulary:  Symbol, Cubism, Profile

To have children create a symmetrical composition using lines, shapes, and color.

Vocabulary:  Balance, Visual Weight, Vertical Axis, Symmetrical Balance, Exact Symmetry, Near Symmetry

To have children create a radial design using pattern and unity.

Vocabulary:  Unity, Quadrant Pattern, Horizontal Axis, Radial Balance

To have children create a still-life painting using visual weight for asymmetrical balance.

Vocabulary:  Asymmetrical Balance, Contrast, Shading

To have children paint a sequential composition that guides a viewer's eyes.

Vocabulary:  Implied Diagonal Lines, Sequential Composition, Golden Rectangle, Balance

To have children create an abstract design using actual lines.

Vocabulary:  Value, Saturation, Color Intensity (high=saturated / low=diffused), Neutral Colors, Dominant Color, Continuous Lines

To have children create an abstract sculpture with rhythm and variety.

Vocabulary:  Rhythm, Variety, Soft Sculpture

To have children create a fiber sculpture with rhythm and variety.

Vocabulary:  Pigment, Neon Art, Fiber Art

To have children create a Pop Art painting with rhythm and variety.

Vocabulary:  Benday Dots/Pattern, Art Prints, Engraving

To have children create an optical illusion with rhythm and variety using lines.

Vocabulary:  Optical Illusion, Op Art

To have children create a computer-generated design with rhythm and variety using shapes.

Vocabulary:  Digital Art, Digital Image, Highlights, Shadows