Creating Costumes
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2132/
A lesson plan for Grades 4–5 Theatre Arts Education and Visual Arts Education
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- Appropriate grades
- 4–5
- Provider
- The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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In this lesson from ARTSEDGE's curriculum unit “The Emperor's New Clothes,” students create a costume for the emperor to wear. After examining costume books and paintings of famous monarchs, students sketch out their costume designs. They study fabric samples and discuss colors. Students then use figure silhouettes, wallpaper samples, and small found materials to create their final costume model. A fashion show of the class's final products will be presented. This resource includes links to related websites.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Theatre Arts Education (2001)
Grade 4
- Goal 6: The learner will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and new art forms.
- Objective 6.03: Understand that a variety of art forms are infused in theatre and come from different cultures.
Grade 5
- Goal 6: The learner will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and new art forms.
- Objective 6.03: Understand that a variety of art forms are infused in theatre and come from different cultures.
Visual Arts Education (2001)
Grade 4
- Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
- Objective 2.02: Use additional art media, techniques and processes which may include:
- Fibers - stitchery, a variety of fiber weaving techniques, felting and quilting
- Cut paper - complex symmetrical folding and cutting;
- Sculpture - experiments with varied tools including small hand tools.
- Objective 2.02: Use additional art media, techniques and processes which may include:
- Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
- Objective 5.06: Discuss themes which are most important to a particular culture.
Grade 5
- Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
- Objective 2.01: Use additional art media, techniques and processes, which may include:
- Drawing - charcoal
- Printmaking - easy cut, mixed media, collographs
- 3-D - wire
- Photography - pin-hole cameras
- Objective 2.01: Use additional art media, techniques and processes, which may include:
- Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
- Objective 5.01: Begin to recognize that art is the visual record of the history of mankind.
- Objective 5.02: Identify selected characteristics that make art of a particular culture unique.
- Objective 5.07: Demonstrate a sense of history (what came before and after) regarding cultures and works of art.
