Pointillism Tree: Improvise Your Own Art Tool, Patterns and Pumpkin Animation

Students will be able to recognize the artistic style of pointillism and present an artwork made from an alternate tool by designing their own trees for the fall season and assembling and utilizing cotton swabs in lieu of a traditional paintbrush. They will discover that sometimes artists need to improvise their own artistic tools in order to expand their techniques. They will learn how to create patterns after observing real leaves and then invent their own patterns on paper leaves. They will also assemble and create their own mini three-dimensional pumpkin that has a different face on each page to represent the change of emotions that a character can go through with their expressions. Lastly, they will write their own observations of the physical changes in the trees during the fall season. A learning objective, subject summary and application in real life, materials needed for each student and the step by step directions needed to create this lesson are all detailed in each of my lesson plans.