Grade 1 Arts & Crafts B

Description

This course provides a foundation for children’s’ artistic imagination and creativity by sharing the basics of art and making art. Students are introduced to primary colors, the color wheel, shapes such as lines and circles, and concepts such as symmetry. Young artists will explore a variety of media such as pastels, watercolors, crayons , tempera, and pencil drawing. Students will create a watercolor tree, use a printing block, and produce a weather painting. As they progress, students will applying what they have learned to make more detailed works of art,  creating colorful calendars, stenciling, fashioning intricate flower drawings, revisiting symmetrical objects, and mixing colors.