Form
Explore the element of form with exciting art lesson plans for Kinder to year 6 art classes. Draw a still life inspired by Van Gogh or Morandi and create nature art and sculptures inspired by Andy Goldsworthy and Alexander Calder in this essential art unit on form.
Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2
Make teaching form easy and fun with two creative art lessons your students will love! Explore the brilliance of sculpture Andy Goldsworthy and create a nature inspired artwork using found plants and leaves. Kids will learn about form, composition, colour and balance while creating their own unique artwork.
Paint some bright oranges in a decorative A3 artwork inspired by the sunshine of Italy and summer! Kids will discover how to make objects look three dimensional. We’ll learn to add simple highlights and shadows with acrylic paint to create real looking orange forms.
Grade 3 and Grade 4
Create a kinetic mobile sculpture inspired by USA artist Alexander Calder. Kids can experiment with hanging shapes to make their own three dimensional sculpture. Use Calder’s primary colours and organic shapes or kids choose their own colour scheme and shapes with each sculpture being unique! Work with metal wire, pliers and foam sheets and learn about the work of Alexander Calder from the Artist Information Sheet.
Van Gogh is one of the world’s most loved artists. Be inspired by his still life artworks to make a drawing of rendered forms. With several images of Van Gogh’s to choose from, kids will use oil pastels to draw the outline, add colour with highlights and shadows and make the forms look three dimensional. Colour and observation will be skills to develop in this lesson inspired by one of the great masters.
Grade 5 and Grade 6
Creating forms has never been so fun! Make an enticing a chocolate box that looks good enough to eat. Design nine different flavours and create a unique design for each as your students become chocolatiers for the day! Make a flavour brochure and name each creation with delicious sounding names. This art lesson is sure to inspire the most reluctant of students as they create and sculpt their own delicious creations.Â
Giorgio Morandi was an Italian artist who enjoyed a quiet life, He was entranced by the simplicity of forms. He draw and painted hundereds of still life compositions with bottles, vases and objects he found at home. Use chalk pastels to draw the outlines and then apply colour to fill out the forms. Folow simple instructions to add shadows and highlights to each to render them into three dimensional forms. Observation is the key to drawing, look and observe to create a faithful representation of what you see not what you think it looks like.
