Magical+Survival+Tool


 * __The Magical Survival Tool Lesson Plan__**


 * Topic:** Organic invention/ painting on wood.


 * Population:** Children aged 7-10 in a community setting similar to the Dept. of Art Education’s Saturday workshops for junior artists. This setting uses a wide range of media to encourage personal and technical creative development. The lesson is for approximately 20 participants for the duration of one hour.

· Learn about form, texture, and some tree parts (vocabulary and identification). · Identify textures and forms and use them as inspiration; interpreting them to create imaginary parts and features. · Use imagination to invent a mythical object.
 * Learning objectives:**

//(* identifies materials that could be optional depending on availability.)//
 * Materials:** Video*, Projector*, laptop*, pilot costume, flight attendant costume*, scientist costume, didactic panel - demonstrating forms and textures using tree parts, 20 pieces of wood (different parts and shapes such as branches and cross-sections), gouache, water, water dishes, paper plates for palettes, newspaper (to cover table), paint brushes, forest music, stereo, campfire, marshmallows*.


 * Art form:** Painting.


 * Technique:** Three-dimensional painting on wood.

Texture - smooth, rough, jagged, bumpy, sticky, holey. Form **-** circular, cylindrical, round, irregular, long, thin, flat, nub, gnarled, hole, crevice. Tree related – knot, bark, growth rings, pith, heartwood, sapwood, crown, grain, stump, trunk, roots, branch, twig, crown.
 * Vocabulary:**

1. Brief welcome and 1 min. video of plane crash //(optional depending on available equipment).// 2. Theatrical introduction: The pilot appears and explains to the participants that we are stranded in the forest and need to survive for an undetermined amount of time. He asks everyone to create a magical survival tool by painting on magical wood. 3. A scientist on board the plane is enlisted to help identify the magical wood in question. To do so, the scientist uses the didactic panel to explain different forms and textures found in wood.
 * Motivation:** //(10 min.)//

1. Participants are invited to choose a piece of wood from the selection provided. 2. The activity is explained in greater detail: · Use the forms and textures of your piece of wood to inspire unique parts and features of a magical survival object. (ex.: What could rough bark be? What could small nubs be? What could holes do? What do the tree rings do? Etc.) · Paint your piece of wood. Consider how you will use different colors to distinguish specific features or make different parts come to life? (ex.: if you have a knot in your wood how will you paint it to make it a button or a switch?) 3. Each participant takes a palette with a small amount of each color of paint, as well as a paintbrush and a water dish. 4. Guiding questions: What does your object do? Does your object have any magical powers? Think about what you would need if you were stranded in the forest? (What do you bring when you go camping or use in scouts?) 5. Play forest music while participants are painting. 6. Inform participants when they have 10 minutes remaining.
 * Art activity:** //(30 min.)//

Everyone is invited to sit around the campfire and take turns sharing what their object does. They should also identify key parts and features, explaining how these were inspired by the forms and textures of their piece of wood.
 * Closure:** //(15 min.)//


 * Clean up!** //(5 min.)//