Third grade lesson exploring color, visual texture, movement, and feelings
Click to download the packaged Color Monster lesson
Lesson Overview (download here)
Tutorial for Remote Learning
Making a Color Monster from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
Join me for a chat about my #Naea20 #colormonster #SEL, #artsed, and #animation when you’re done watching the Video https://t.co/HP6NE0ZuM8
— Tricia Fuglestad ☕ (@fuglefun) March 25, 2020
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The Color Monster Book connects colors to feelings and emotions. This story helps students thing about their own feelings as they use color and expression to make a color monster
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Day One: Book and Doodles
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I set up the six tables in the art room with a color paper tent on which I wrote a feeling. The tables were covered with white paper with a basket of sharpie markers.
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Students traveled to each of the six tables doodling and drawing about the feeling written on the color tent. We matched some of the colors in the book, but changed a few to match our primary and secondary color schemes. This will make our monochromatic paintings turn out better. We traded orange for black since it's not on the color wheel and purple for pink since pink is tint of red. I used the song Colors by Kira Willey (see youtube video below) as a device for organizing our rotations. Students drew for as long as the song (2.5 mins). Then we switched tables. We gathered around each table at the end to look for patterns and point out expressive choices.
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Day Two: Cardboard Monsters
I printed these plans for each of my students. The hope is that they can use these to draw and cut out their monster pieces. There is some room for creative choices, but with they would have to work within the limits of two pieces of cardboard. #ProblemSolving
Prepped enough cardboard for 3rd grade students to make a monster (two 8.5 x 11 pieces each)
Here is my plan for building a color monster from two sheets of 8.5" x 11" cardboard
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Paper Folded and stapled to make a pouch for all the pieces
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Since this project will have many small pieces, students will make a pouch for their work from folded and stapled paper. This will hold everything and serve as a placemat for painting and laying out their work on the drying rack. Each little piece still needs to have a name on the back just in case. |
Day Three: Picking Colors and Painting
You can't always control what mood you're in today. But, we can learn to self-regulate and work through those feelings. So when students come to class today, they will pick a color from a basket. There will be 4 of each of the six colors we selected to represent feelings. When they pick a color, they will work at that table to paint their monster.
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Day four: Trace, Assemble & Photograph
Students will trace the edges of their pieces with black marker, use wooden skewers to gently poke through the cardboard, and attach 5 fasteners. Then, we will photograph for Artsonia
Finished Monsters (see gallery)
Click the image to see the gallery
Day Five: Stop-Motion Animation
Students will collaboratively use stop-motion animation to bring movement and expression to their color monsters.
Presentation: (See the gallery of videos)
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Class Movies
3-1 Color Monsters from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
3-2 Color Monsters from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
3-3 Color Monsters from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
3-4 Color Monsters from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
Bonus: Augmented Reality Book Cover
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TEXAS ArtEd Conference Keynote
When I was asked to give the Keynote address to the Texas Art Education Association, I decided to frame it around the feelings my students and I experience making these color monsters. How are you feeling?
How are you feeling? from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
MEDIA ARTS Article in School Arts Mag
I turned the keynote address into an article and shared it in the media arts issue of School Arts Magazine. Here is the link to the article.
The article has an augmented reality feature where you can see Alessandro's animation come to life. It also has an embedded video you can view online when you click on the photo of students viewing the color monster animations through the iPad app Eyejack.
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