Kindergarten Line Paintings

Kindergarten Line Paintings
     Kindergarteners learned to name, identify, and draw a variety of different lines.  The lines included:
- Straight
- Thin
- Thick
- Dashed (road line)
- Zig Zag
- Lightning bolt
- Heartbeat
- Squiggle (snake line)
- Castle
- Curly cue
- Spiral
- Scallop (ocean wave)

     Kindergarteners practiced drawing a variety of lines.  Each student started by tracing lines that were given to them, and then creating their own lines.  After they were done practicing, students took their pencil for a walk across their paper, trying to draw each line they learned.  The lines were then traced with oil pastels.  Students used tempera paint to add color to the background, experimenting with overlapping, and color mixing.

Targets:
1. I can name and identify a variety of lines.
2. I can draw a variety of lines.

Kindergarten Line Paintings

     In this lesson, kindergartners are introduced to a variety of different lines.  To start this lesson, students chose different lines to pull out of the "Mystery Box of Lines," which was filled with larger pipe cleaners that were shaped to resemble different types of lines.  After the lines were pulled out, the class worked on naming the lines, and sharing where the lines might be found in real life.  These lines included:
- straight
- short (could be used for a dashed line)
- curly
- squiggle line / snake line
- scalloped line (ocean wave)
- castle top
- zig-zag

     To practice drawing different lines, students used a pencil to draw them onto drawing paper.  Once the lines were drawn, students practiced their tracing by following over their pencil lines with oil pastels.  Tempera cake paints were used to paint in the background.  Students explored with color mixing with their paints.  The oil pastels and paints work as a crayon - resist, where the paint doesn't stick, but bubbles around the oil pastel.

Learning Targets:
I can...
- name a variety of lines
- draw a variety of lines
- trace one line on top of another line