1. Year 1: “Common Threads”
Fun-Arts
Year 1: “Common Threads”
(Global Themes: Masks, Shaking Instruments, Dragons, Friendship & Families, Humor, Space)
Lesson 4: Helping Hands
Track 13: Nikhil Banerjee

2. Helping Hands: Lesson Plan
What have we learned so far?
“Global Themes”
New Global Theme...
2 Songs from India
Craft Time!

3. What have we learned so far?
“Global Themes” are things we can find all over the world
Art has:
Primary and Secondary Colors
Patterns
Textures
Hidden meanings
Music has
Tempo (fast & slow)
Rhythms (beat patterns)
Instruments
Dynamics (soft & loud)

4. What Global Themes have we found?
MASKS
SHAKING INSTRUMENTS
DRAGON STORIES

5. New Global Theme:
Can you guess?

6. LOVE & FRIENDSHIP All around the world, humans feel and express LOVE.
All cultures have a concept of
Community
Family
Friends
Photo: Fun-Arts author Monica Merrill Vinberg and her 5 children (2009)

7. Humans take care of each other
How do you help at home?
How do you help at school?

8. How do we show we care? We listen. We help.
We share.
From Pieter Bruegel’s “Peasant Wedding” (1566, The Netherlands)

9. We Listen, Help & Share!
Pieter Bruegel “Peasant Wedding” (1566, The Netherlands). The bride is sitting in front of the green cloth. By tradition, the bridegroom is not a the feast.

10. How do we show we care? We play together!
from Pieter Bruegel’s “Children’s Games (1560, The Netherlands)

11. We Play Together! 230 children! 83 games!
Interesting strong diagonal leading lines. The large sharp-edged buildings are stark contrast to soft, rounded people.

12. MUSIC: Sitar Music Sitar: Nikhil Baerjee (1931-1986)
A sitar can have 18, 19 or 20 strings.
It has 2 bridges.
It is played by plucking the strings.
Nikhil Baerjee ( )
started playing sitar at age 5
grew into a child prodigy
won an all-India sitar competition and became the youngest musician employed by All India Radio at the age of 9.
Track 13: “Raja” (09:08)
Tempo? (fast or slow)
Dynamics? (loud or soft)
Instruments? (sitar)

13. More Music from India
Music is used around the world to express how much we care for other people.
Track 14: (8:04) “Kajra Re”
From a Bollywood movie (“Bunty Aur Babli”, 2005)
“After I met you in Old Delhi,   I left a memento behind there,   a tapestry woven of random moments   of our story in Delhi.   Inspired by your dark, lotus-like eyes...”

14. Let’s Create!
sitar
Kajra re
LINES
With a black marker, use ruler (or freehand) to create straight lines on the outside of hand outline.
Connect straight lines together, using an upward curve, inside hand outline.
Lines should be close together.
COLOR
Choose 3 to 4 colors.
Fill in white space between lines with chosen colors.
Follow a pattern.
DEPTH
Add depth by following pencil outline on one side of hand with a red crayon or colored pencil.
TRACE
Lightly trace hand and wrist on middle of the paper using a pencil.
Materials:
9x12 white construction paper
pencil
black marker
colored pencils or crayons

15. Let’s Create!
DEPTH
Add a horizon line, background and foreground items.
Add things you care about.
TRACE
Lightly trace hand and wrist on middle of the paper using a pencil.
COLOR
Color in your hand and arm to be the tree and trunk.
Add leaves and symbols that remind you of love and friendship.
sitar
Kajra re
Materials:
9x12 white construction paper
pencil
black marker
colored pencils or crayons

16. Credits
Fun-Arts lessons are written by Monica Merrill Vinberg copyright 2014.
Craft plans are written by Christine Krause.
Fun-Arts is a non-profit group hoping to share the world’s fine arts treasures with the rightful heirs: all children.
Thank you docents: you bring the lessons to life.
Thank you for permission to use work: (textures), Patrick Keough (painter), Spencer Art Museum, Lars Åke Vinberg (photos), Sherri Carter (painter), Ivetta Harte (painter), Elizabeth Robinette Tyndall (painter), Vicky Richardson (photos), Jim Patterson Photography, Eileen Downes (collage).
Fun-Arts art supplies are provided in part by the PTA’s at the schools who use the program.
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“Dragons in China” paraphrased from Art Projects from Around the World by Linda Evans, Karen Backus and Mary Thompson

17. Where in the World? (click HERE to return to last viewed screen)