1. Docent Material & Setup List: Docent Clean up List:
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Docent Material & Setup List:
Docent Clean up List:
Make sure names are on paper(s)
Place completed art work in bin with blotting paper between art work to prevent smudging
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!
Give each student:
Pencil
Paper
Eraser
Blotting paper
Give each table:
Tray of chalk pastels
Please read or show images from the book “The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau”
Please remember to come back and put your art work back in your bins once they have dried – thanks!

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Welcome in the students. State the lesson name.

3. Today’s Lesson Skill Development: Introduction to Henri Rousseau
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Today’s Lesson
Skill Development:
Introduction to Henri Rousseau
This is a curriculum extension we will be using camouflage in todays art
You will learn today:
To create artwork with using pencil
To develop imagination and creativity
Enhance your ability to blend colors using a new medium chalk pastels.
Today you are going to create your interpretation of Henri Rousseau’s fantasy rain forest painting.
Explain the lesson objective and description.

4. Rousseau’s Rainforest:
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Rousseau’s Rainforest:
Read ‘The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau’
Students look carefully at Henri Rousseau's fanciful paintings of rain forest animals in the book and the next two masterpieces. Note the repetition of plant shapes.

5. Who was Henri Rousseau? Hide 'n' Seek Animals
He was completely self-taught.
He is known for his imaginative art of lush jungle scenes; amazing paintings he created all without ever leaving France.
Rousseau found his inspiration for his paintings from postcards, magazines, and visits to the arboretum and zoo. His exotic animals were also drawn from toys and figurines bought in Paris gift shops!
Henri Rousseau, French
(1844–1910).
Taken from KinderArt: Rousseau served in the army for four years before going on to become a customs officer at the edge of Paris. He worked until he was 49, painting on the weekends, until he could retire and focus fully on his art. He taught painting lessons, performed as a street musician, and did other odd tasks to earn enough money to live as he painted.

6. Surprised!, Henri Rousseau
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Surprised!, Henri Rousseau
This is the original painting that inspires our art lesson today. Rousseau’s favorite subject was the jungle but he never actually saw a jungle. He based his scenery on the botanical gardens in Paris and the animals were drawn from guide books and zoo pamphlets. Some of his subjects he never saw in three dimensions so his paintings have a flat look to them. Also, Rousseau sometimes grouped together animals that would never be seen together in nature. In one painting, the bananas hang upside down from a tree. SOURCE: Art Smarts 4 Kids: Henri Rousseau.

7. Tropical Forest with Monkeys, Henri Rousseau
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Tropical Forest with Monkeys, Henri Rousseau
This is the original painting that inspires our art lesson today – look at the differing shapes of leaves and their shades – encourage students to think about this when they create their composition

8. Let’s get started.. Write your name on the paper
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Let’s get started..
Write your name on the paper
Draw a large animal. Make it BIG
Take your chalk pastels and color the animal.
Now go around the animal and add in plants in differing shades of greens. Try to camouflage your animal!
Be careful not to smudge ….
Docents you could try and encourage students to approach this art work in this order, but at this age you may jus have to go with the flow … ideally get the students to:
Compose their scene, begin with the background and draw the leaves around your animal (Tiger, Monkey or Lion). Use large, simple repeated shapes
Create contrast with the use of dark, medium and light colors and shades.
Repeat colors throughout the art work to create a cohesive look.

9. Art history lesson slides are original and built from various sources
By Tara Button
April 2017 – updated January 2018