To have children draw a tree using an outline and a variety of line styles to create visual texture.

Vocabulary:  Drawing, Line, Outline, Contour Line, Expressive Lines (styles), Castle, Dovetailed, Omega, Greek, Parallel Lines (Hatching), Perpendicular Lines (Cross-Hatching)

To have children create a figure drawing with lines that show movement and other objects moving across the scene.

Vocabulary:  Figure, Pose, Movement, Motion Lines

To have children create a collage of a meal by using geometric, organic, and free-form shapes.

Vocabulary:  Collage, Shapes, Geometric Shapes, Organic Shapes, Free-Form Shapes

To have children create a collage using free-form shapes, complementary colors, and linear symmetry.

Vocabulary:  Organic Shapes, Free-Form Shapes, Linear Symmetry, Complementary Colors

To have children create a portrait of their family or other groups using unity with various lines and shapes.

Vocabulary:  Self-Portrait, Portrait, Group Portrait, Unity

To have children create a rainbow fan based on the secondary colorwheel.

Vocabulary:  Color, Primary Colors, Secondary Colors, Color Wheel

To have children create a portrait using only warm colors or cool colors to show the mood of an emotion.

Vocabulary:  Portrait, Mood, Expression, Warm Colors, Cool Colors, Neutral Colors

To have children create a mixed media painting of a flower bouquet with fabric and paint using tints and shades.

Vocabulary:  Value, Hue, Tint, Shade, Tone

To have children create paper doll puppets and background to tell a story that uses color to show mood.

Vocabulary:  Mood, Color, Background

To have children create a crayon-resist seascape using a horizon line and color with value.

Vocabulary:  Resist, Seascape, Horizon Line, Object

To have children create a picture frame using repetition of shapes to create patterns.

Vocabulary:  Border or Frame, Repetition, Shape Pattern

To have children create a pattern of colors on an animal shape that stands up.

Vocabulary:  Three-Dimensional (3D), Color Pattern, Visual (Implied) Texture

To have the children create a scene repeating patterns of colors, lines, and shapes to create rhythm.

Vocabulary:  Rhythm, Pattern, Scene, Story Elements (Narrative), Neutral Colors

To have the children create a weaving with texture and pattern using a loom and adding found objects for additional texture.

Vocabulary:  Weaving, Loom, Pattern, Tactile (Actual) Texture, Found Objects

To have the children create a 3D cut-out animal with visual textures using patterns made from rubbings of found objects. 

Vocabulary:  Rubbing, Visual (Implied) Texture, Patterns

To have the children create a pinch pot and decorate it using patterns then paint when dry.

Vocabulary:  Three-Dimensional (3D), Form, Sculpture in the Round, Pottery, Clay

To have the children create an animal sculpture by modeling foil to define the animal's body features.

Vocabulary:  Sculpture in the Round, Positive Space, Open Form, Organic Form, Modeling, Detail

To have the children create a relief sculpture of an object that symbolizes something interesting about themselves.

Vocabulary:  Relief Sculpture, Closed Form, Clay Slab, Object, Symbol

To have the children create a model of a school using construction paper.

Vocabulary:  Architecture, Architect, Model, Geometric Form, Sphere, Cylinder, Cube, Rectangular Prism, Trianglur Prism, Pyrimid, Cone

To have the children create a 3D landscape by painting a setting using spatial elements then adding forms to make it 3D.

Vocabulary:  Landscape, Space, Horizon Line, Foreground, Middle-Ground, Background

To have the children create painted building shapes to resemble places in their neighborhood, using color to emphasize their favorite place.

Vocabulary:  Contrast, Emphasis

To have the children create a collage with color, shape, pattern, and texture from forms using size to emphasize the subject.

Vocabulary:  Emphasis, Subject, Story Elements

To have the children create sun print with a balanced design using a symmetrical organic shape, then decorating with oil pastels, crayons, and yarn.

Vocabulary:  Print, Luminism, Medium, Balance, Linear Symmetry, Radial Symmetry

To have the children create a portrait of a famous person with balance and contrast.

Vocabulary:  Contrast, Balance, Portrait, Subject

To have the children create a vest and decorate it with a balanced design that incorporates line, color, shape, pattern, and weaving.

Vocabulary:  Textile, Fashion Design, Balance, Decorate, Weaving, Elements of Art, Repetition, Rhythm, Pattern

To have the children create a mosaic with a subject using patterns that show unity.

Vocabulary:  Mosaic, Unity

To have the children design money with symbols that represents their city or state, and make prints with it.

Vocabulary:  Print, Engraving, Symbol, Design Principles, Unity, Balance, Emphasis

To have the children create a still-life that has unity and variety, using objects of different shapes, sizes, colors, and textures.

Vocabulary:  Still-Life, Art Elements, Lines, Shapes, Color, Texture, Design Principles, Proportion, Unity, Variety

To have the children construct a collage that tells a story about a favorite memory using multi-media and found objects.

Vocabulary:  Collage, Cloth (Fabric), Mixed-Media (Multimedia), Story Elements (Narrative)

To have the children create a stamp to show a subject in the future.

Vocabulary:  Graphic Art, Subject, Story Elements (Narrative), Unity, Variety