1. Line Variety Painting Art@Booksin Material List: Docent Clean up List:
White paper
Oil pastels
Watercolor Cakes
Pencil
Paintbrush and Water cups
Harry and the Purple Crayon book
Make sure names are on paper
Place completed art work on drying racks – remember to label with teachers name
Wipe down tables, refill any items and return to bins as you found them
Close the lens cap to turn the projector off
Send to parents about the lesson – thanks for doing this and leading the lesson!
Docent Setup List:
Give each student:
white paper
1 pencil
1 paintbrush
Per table:
2 Trays of oil pastels
3 trays of watercolor cakes on blue tray
2 water cups
White paper is in your class slot.
Oil pastels are located in the lesson bin in trays.
Everything else is located on the island as they are standard supplies.
This is a lesson which works really nicely to music – play various types and see what it inspires!

2. Line Variety Painting ‘Harry and the Purple Crayon’ Art@Booksin
Welcome in the students. State the lesson name.

3. Today’s Lesson Skill Development:
Line Variety Painting
Today’s Lesson
Skill Development:
Learning the vocabulary terms for different kinds of lines
Developing art using the same instructions and process but every piece will be unique just as they are
Working with oil pastels and paint to make a colorful art piece
Introduce students to new vocabulary
Refining motor skills with painting with many colors within the boundaries of the lines they create
Concept of resist
Keep it simple – the next slides walk through the varieties of lines they can draw and will be using to create their art today. You will read to students ‘Harry and the Purple Crayon’ once you have gone through the line descriptions to tie this lesson together before moving into the practical portion.
This lesson emphasizes that there are no rights and wrongs in art and everyone is unique as is their art.

4. How many different lines do you know?
Line Variety Painting
How many different lines do you know?
Start a conversation with the students asking them about the different lines that they know of or can see in the picture.

5. Line Variety Painting Art@Booksin
Go over each kind of line with them in this picture.

6. Now let’s read a book that uses all of these line types….
Line Variety Painting
Now let’s read a book that uses all of these line types….
Read ‘Harry and the purple crayon’ by Crockett Johnson.
Please show students the pages as this is exactly what this lesson is all about, simple lines make art. Make sure they know what each line is because they are going to have to be drawing all the different kinds of lines when you ask them to follow your process steps.

7. Let’s get started.. Supplies Needed: Large White paper Oil pastels
Line Variety Painting
Let’s get started..
Supplies Needed:
Large White paper
Oil pastels
Pencil
Watercolor cakes
Paintbrush
Water cup
Please talk through the differences in these 2 examples. We want students to understand that every picture is going to be different and it is all about how they interpret the directions you are going to give them when it comes to drawing the lines. This emphasizes that there are no rights and wrongs in art and everyone is unique as is their art.
Remind students that they will be selecting their paint colors which will further emphasize the differences in art even through everyone has received the same instructions.

8. Write your name on back of paper Choose an oil pastel:
Line Variety Painting
Write your name on back of paper
Choose an oil pastel:
Use different color paints to paint your picture after all your lines are drawn
Draw a straight line in the middle of the paper CHANGE YOUR COLOR
Draw a wavy line on the left side of the paper CHANGE YOUR COLOR
Draw a zig zag line across the paper
CHANGE YOUR COLOR
Draw a curved line on the bottom of the paper CHANGE YOUR COLOR
Draw a dotted line at the top of the paper
Put a diagonal line on your paper
Please use the direction sheet that tells the students what lines to draw. Remind them to change their oil pastel color each time they make a new line and also to make sure they use different colors of paint to make their art piece.

9. LESSON PLAN ADAPTED FROM MRS. BROWN’S ART
By Chelsea Woertink
October 2015
Rewritten Oct Tara Button
Simplified for TK Tara Button Sept 2017