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Old Hat, New Hat - 3-D Pattern Hats

After students read "Old Hat, New Hat" by Jan Berenstain and Stan Berenstain, they create new 3-D hats in art.

A lesson plan for grade 1 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics

By Lisa Mitchell

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Learning outcomes

Students will construct a 3-D cone-shaped hat from a 12×18 piece of paper. They will decorate their hats with a repeating pattern of lines and shapes.

Teacher planning

Time required for lesson

minutes

Materials/resources

  • Old Hat New Hatby Jan and Stan Berenstain, Random House Books for Young Readers, 1997 ISBN: 0679886303
  • white 12×18 drawing paper
  • curved shape patterns (poster board) for students to trace to have a large 1/2 circle on their white paper
  • markers
  • scissors
  • scrap construction paper
  • chenille stems
  • stapler
  • pencil
  • laminated 12×18 paper for placemats

Technology resources

computer with Internet capabilities
video camera
digital or regular camera

Pre-activities

Read the story with the students. Compare hats in the story through illustrations and descriptions.
Share one of your old hats with your students.
Introduce the computer site. Let students explore or do one of the activities. Show them the authors’ page on Jan and Stan Berenstain.
Review lines and shapes studied previously.
Review/Introduce 3-D.
Review/Introduce patterns.

Activities

  1. Students trace the 1/2 circle pattern on their white 12×18 paper with a pencil.
  2. Students cut out their shape on the curved line. Discuss/demonstrate/review scissor safety and use.
  3. Students fill in their shape with a repeating pattern. Let the pattern curve around the shape (like a rainbow). Demonstrate how the pattern curves like a rainbow. Draw and/or color in the pattern with markers. I have students use a laminated 12×18 piece of paper to “save” their desk. Discuss/demonstrate/review marker safety and use.
  4. To make the hat, students transform the shape from a 1/2 circle to a cone. Demonstrate and discuss with students. When students complete their patttern, the teacher overlaps the straight side of the 1/2 circle and staples together. The hats can be sized to the students’ heads.
  5. Students create “fru fru” to add to their hat. (See Papa Berenstain’s flower in the story.)Demonstrate to students how to bend or curl the chenille stem and place one end in the top of the hat. Students may cut various shapes out of scrap paper to add to their hat. We stabbed ours on the end of the chenille stem so the flower (or shape) would stand up.
  6. At the end of the class period(s), let the students wear the hats and have a fashion show or parade. We paraded to the office and shared our lesson with the principal. Video tape or take pictues if possible.

Assessment

  • Does the student’s hat have a repeating pattern?
  • Was the student successful in creating a 3-D object?
  • Did the student learn what 3-D is?
  • Were materials used safely?

Supplemental information

None

Related websites

http://www.berenstainbears.com/
The official Berenstain Bears Site

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/berenstain.htm
Berenstain Bears Teacher Resource Site

Comments

Students loved creating a hat to wear during their study of this story. They ranged from the plain to the very fancy. Allow students time to create their own “flair” by adding to their hat.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

  • Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
    • Objective 2.01: Become familiar with additional basic art media, techniques and processes which may include: fibers - papermaking and paper weaving.
    • Objective 2.02: Use various techniques to create visual effects using texture.
  • Goal 3: The learner will organize the components of a work into a cohesive whole through knowledge of organizational principles of design and art elements.
    • Objective 3.01: Use variety of geometric and organic shapes in creating own work.
    • Objective 3.03: Recognize that pattern is created by repetition and uses pattern in own artwork.
    • Objective 3.04: Use a variety of techniques and imagery incorporating pattern and repetition.

Mathematics (2004)

Grade 1

  • Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will identify, describe, draw, and build basic geometric figures.