Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term v5 - Grade 1
Creative arts: drawing, painting and simple crafts – Week 3 focus
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Creative arts: drawing, painting and simple crafts – Week 3 focus
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Subject: Life Skills
Class: Grade 1
Term: 2nd Term
Week: 3
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This week, we're diving into the exciting world of creative arts! Drawing, painting, and simple crafts aren't just fun; they help us express our feelings, tell stories, and learn about the world around us. Imagine drawing a picture of your favourite game of soccer or painting a colourful image of your gran’s garden. These activities help develop our fine motor skills (how we use our hands and fingers), our creativity, and our ability to think visually. Being creative can help us solve problems and find new ways to do things, both in school and in our daily lives. For example, if you need to decorate a birthday card, you can use the skills learned here!
Drawing: Drawing is making pictures using lines. We can use different tools like crayons, pencils, and markers. Different tools create different types of lines. A crayon might make a thick, colourful line, while a pencil makes a thinner, lighter line. We can draw shapes like circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles. We can also draw people, animals, and things we see around us. When we draw, we are using our imagination and showing what we think.
Example 1: Imagine you are drawing your house. Think about the shape of the house (is it a rectangle or a square?). What shape is the door? What about the windows? Draw these shapes on your paper to create a simple picture of your home. Remember to use your crayons to add colour!
Example 2: Think about your favourite animal. What shape is its body? Draw that shape. Then, draw shapes for its head, legs, and tail. You can add details like eyes, nose, and mouth.
Painting: Painting is using colours to make pictures. We can use different kinds of paint, like poster paint or watercolour. We can use brushes, sponges, or even our fingers to apply the paint to paper. Different colours can make us feel different things. Red can make us feel excited, while blue can make us feel calm. When we paint, we can mix colours to create new colours. For example, if we mix red and yellow, we get orange!
Example 1: Imagine you are painting a rainbow.
Remember the colours of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Paint each colour in a curved line to create a beautiful rainbow.
Example 2: Paint a picture of your favourite fruit. Is it an apple (red), a banana (yellow), or an orange (orange)? Use the right colours to make your painting look realistic.
Simple Crafts: Crafts involve making things using different materials. We can use paper, cardboard, leaves, sticks, and other things we find around us. We can cut, glue, and fold these materials to create different objects. Crafts help us develop our problem-solving skills and our ability to work with our hands.
Example 1: Making a paper airplane. Take a sheet of paper and fold it in half lengthwise. Then, fold down the top corners to the center line. Fold the top edges down again to the center line. Finally, fold the airplane in half along the original crease. You have now created a simple paper airplane! Decorate it with crayons or markers.
Example 2: Making a collage using leaves and twigs. Go outside and collect different leaves and twigs. Glue them onto a piece of paper to create a nature collage. You can arrange the leaves and twigs in any way you like. Guided Practice (With Solutions)
Question 1: Draw a circle, a square, and a triangle. Colour the circle red, the square blue, and the triangle yellow.
Solution: Draw a circle: Draw a round shape.
Draw a square: Draw a shape with four equal sides and four corners.
Draw a triangle: Draw a shape with three sides and three corners.
Colour the circle red: Use a red crayon or marker to fill in the circle.
Colour the square blue: Use a blue crayon or marker to fill in the square.
Colour the triangle yellow: Use a yellow crayon or marker to fill in the triangle.
Commentary: This exercise reinforces the ability to identify and draw basic shapes and associate them with specific colours.
Question 2: Paint a picture of a flower using different colours.
Solution: Draw the stem: Use a green crayon or paint to draw a straight line.
Draw the leaves: Draw leaf shapes on either side of the stem. Colour them green.
Draw the flower head: Draw a circle or a shape with petals at the top of the stem.
Paint the flower head: Use different colours of paint to fill in the petals of the flower. You can use one colour or mix different colours.
Commentary: This exercise encourages creativity in colour selection and application while depicting a common natural object.
Question 3: Make a simple paper chain using strips of paper and glue.
Solution: Cut strips of paper: Cut strips of paper of equal length (e.g., 10cm long and 2cm wide).
Make a loop: Take one strip of paper and glue the ends together to make a loop.
Link the loops: Take another strip of paper and thread it through the first loop. Glue the ends of the second strip together to make a loop.
Continue linking: Repeat the process, linking more and more strips of paper to create a chain.
Commentary: This exercise develops fine motor skills and introduces the concept of linking elements to create a larger structure.
Question 4: Create a simple face using shapes.
Solution: Draw a circle: The circle will be the face.
Draw two smaller circles: Draw these inside the large circle for the eyes.
Draw a small triangle: Draw this below the eyes for the nose.
Draw a curved line: Draw this below the nose for the mouth.
Add details: Colour in the eyes, add eyebrows using short lines and add some hair using lines.