Alaskan Animal Senses (Drama kit)

Alaska Animal Masks

Students explore the unique facial features of different animals.  They are introduced to paper sculpting techniques and create a mask of a local Alaskan animal, adding 3-dimensional features.

Children Just Like Me

Each child draws themselves and a favorite place or thing.  The pictures are colored with colored pencils, then cut out to make a community class mural or border.

Clay Medallions and Counters

Students explore clay as a material. They create textures and patterns using common objects (provided in kit) and make a set of clay counters for the class to use for math games and a colorful (glazed) medallion for them to keep or give as a gift.

Color Critters

Students will listen to the story White Rabbit’s Color Book  After some practice in mixing primary colored oil pastels in many combinations and discovering new colors, they will create a colorful critter from their practice sheet.

Drawing from Observation: Leaves

This is a foundational lesson in drawing from observation, getitng your students started with this way of seeing and recording. You will need to collect leaves for this lesson.

Drawing from Observation: Push and Pull

Use the power of play, observation and drawing to help students build more knowledge of the phenomena of "push" and "pull." 

Eat Like a Bear

In this art lesson, children learn about the many foods a bear eats, spring, summer and fall.  Children's artwork helps them become more aware of primary colors, practice printing wtih objects, draw from observation, and bring the bear together with it's food in a mixed media project.

Formline Babies

Students are introduced to Northwest Coast Formline Design and the “ovoid” shape though Tlingit artist, Crystal Worl’s delightful series of “Formline Babies.”  In this early childhood lesson, students learn some Tlingit phrases, go on a scavenger hunt in the room, and learn by painting and drawing on Crystal’s Raven and Eagle designs. 

Learning to Paint our Ideas

Students collectively brainstorm their knowledge and ideas around a topic of the teachers choosing. They are taught painting techniques to help them paint clear and "easy to read" pictures that show their ideas on the topic. After introducing this painting technique through the kit, teachers can have students share their ideas through painting throughout the year on a variety of topics.

Marvelous Mittens

Students use mixed media to design a mitten for someone they know, making it both smart and useful as well as beautiful.

Me in the Mirror

Students draw a self portrait using oil pastels. The kit provides a mirror for each student to examine his or her face. They are encouraged to draw the colors and shapes of their unique features. Students look at prints of several portraits and explore the meaning of a “self-portrait. 

Paint Color Mixing

Students use primary colors of tempera paint to mix and discover the magic of color mixing. They test their colors with other children in their table groups and their conversations are recorded on a poster created by the group.The Tlingit names for colors provide a foundation for students understanding of color and naming their own newly created colors.   

Primary Paint: Shapes, Letters and Numbers 

Students learn beginning paintbrush technique and practice using two sizes of paintbrushes with primary color tempera cakes. The art of American artist, Jasper Johns offers inspiration as student practice painting using shapes, numbers and letters as the subject matter.

Raven Puppets

Students learn about the significance of Raven in the Tlingit culture and learn the shape “ovoid”. Students “build” a 3-D raven puppet, using common shapes such as rectangle, square, triangle and rhombus. They will use techniques of cutting and folding paper.

Sea Creatures with Ray Troll

Students create sea creatures in the style of Ray Troll.  Oil pastels are used to draw a shape and color with pattern. Students add a patterned border design, name their creature, and view it with 3-D glasses.

The Snowy Day at School

Solstice Sun Collage

Stories with Scissors

Sunflowers

Tidepool Sculptures

Weather Stories (drama)

The Wind and Me

In this integrated art lesson, students practice painting and drawing while feeling and hearing the wind.  They are encouraged to observe the wind's effects on themselves and the world around them.  In the Tlingit language: óoxjaa: wind; t’aakú: our local, strong, gusty wind.

"Yaakw" Canoes

Students learn about traditional NWCoast Native canoes.  Given the opportunity to look at authentic carved canoe models, children draw pictures of the canoes and add colored rubbings of formline design to enhance the finished drawing.