Elementary Visual School Arts

I Can Fly con’t

Watercolor Wash

Quilted border

Read Tar Beach aloud.

Students draw

themselves flying on a

12” x 18 “sheet of white

paper using a Sharpie.

Students continue

drawing adding what they

are flying over to the

picture. Add color with

markers or crayons.

Students will use

watercolors to paint the

sky. Mount on 18” x 24”

colored paper.

Students discuss Ms.

Ringgold’s use of quilting

to create a border or

“frame’ around her story

quilts. Students then

create a faux quilted

patterns round their work

using 1” squares of

patterned scrap booking

paper.

1 Session

1 Session

1 Session

Concepts

(students need to

know)

Skills

(students need to be

able to do)

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Levels

Art can tell a story
without words.

Artists often get their
inspiration (ideas) from
people, places, events or
communities in which
they have lived.

Identify and discuss how

Effectively tell a story

using lines, shapes and

colors in a drawing

Effectively use drawing,

painting and collage

techniques to create a

mixed-media work of art.

1. Remembering


2. Understanding


3. Applying


4. Creating