I am loving learning along with Liam! My friend who brought her daughters over told me the same thing. We are both learning just about as much as the children are with these art lessons!
This lesson focusing on Henri Matisse was no different!
Lesson
We played the Line Matching Game from last week for a quick review. Our friend wasn’t here last week so it was a great opportunity for Liam to ‘be the teacher’ and catch her up to speed.
Our Discussion Read Aloud focused on the artist Henri Matisse. We began by talking a lot about the different lines in his drawing of The Swan.
I wish I could take a simple pencil and turn some lines into a fun drawing like this! We did try out hand at it with a Directed Drawing (which are always fun!) but there would just be something so wonderful about being able to do it completely on my own.
Then we learned more about Henri Matisse’s unique type of art with paper cut outs so of course we had to make our own!
What We Learned
By the end of the lesson, he was able to:
- recount details of Henri Matisse’s life.
- execute their own artwork similar to Henri Matisse
He also now has a good understanding of many new vocabulary words such as:
- Henri Matisse
- cutout
My entire lesson plan can be purchased here.
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Other Great Resources
Here are some great resources that are not included in my Lesson Plan but that I felt were still worth mentioning. And I’m sure I’ll come back to these when we have space time throughout our week.
Videos
Books
See You Soon!
Next week we will continue studying about different lines and how they are important in art.
Don’t Miss Out!
Check out all about the ENTIRE YEAR of art lessons here.
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Here are some previous art lessons you might enjoy:
Lesson 1 – Cave Painting
Lesson 2 – Ancient Egyptian Art
Lesson 3 – Mixing Colors
Lesson 4 – Claude Monet
Lesson 5 – James Whistler
Lesson 6 – Warm and Cool Colors
Lesson 7 – So Many Lines
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You are so creative!! I love this idea!
Those paper cutouts look like so much fun! My son would love this lesson!
This is a great idea! I’m going to use this for our homeschool! Thank you for sharing.
This is so cute! My kids would love this so much!
These are all so great for the kiddos! So great of you to share these
I will have to share this with my sibling that have kiddos! Great post. 🙂
This is such a cool and fun way to learn about Henri Matisse (or anyone!)! I love these ideas!
I love Matisse’s art. I love these lessons to teach my kids.
I am going to have to teach these to my kids!
What a fun activity! I’ll have to do this with my kids.
Wow you are so creative! I love love love your materials!
This is such a creative idea, love it; thank you so much for sharing!