Project Title: Lift the Flap Landscape and Sky-scape drawings
Medium: Drawing – Narrative Project
Grade Theme: Land and Sky
Overview: Students will create lift-the-flap drawings of hidden pictures in the sky and land
Art Skills: drawing, painting
Process: Students will draw landscapes and/or sky-scapes with watercolor pencils. Teachers will cut flaps in the drawings and students will trace the windows and then draw hidden pictures in the windows. Students will blend with brushes and water and then glue the front page to the back.
Tools Provided by Classroom: Scissors, pencils, glue
Vocabulary: Narrative writing (stories)
Additional Resource: Great Sky Painter William Turner
Multiple Subject Integration: writing, narrative
*Please note that samples were made by teaching artists. Students will be encouraged to make their own versions of this project. Please DO NOT show students these samples in advance of the art lesson.
Description Summary: Today students had a special art lesson Lift the Flap skyscape and landscape drawings and discussed what stories they might be telling.