Visual Arts Education — Kindergarten

Seasonal farm landscapes

Students will have visited the farm landscape four times throughout the year, recording their observations during four seasons. The drawings will incorporate their knowledge of farms from our visits, their exposure to the seasonal landscapes of Grant Wood and Claude Monet, and their knowledge of landscape art and its elements of color and perspective developed at the Museum. The final project will be individual student books containing their landscape drawings and text.

Format: lesson plan (grade K Visual Arts Education)

By Jamie Barnhill.

Resources on the web

Who has seen the wind?

Students explore characteristics of the wind through observation and discussion of several of Vincent van Gogh's paintings, and through poetry, pantomime, and painting. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–4 Visual Arts Education)

Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Sunflowers

Van Gogh's depiction of sunflowers is used as a means of focusing on the parts of a flower, growing sunflowers in the classroom, and developing students' artistic impressions of sunflowers. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Visual Arts Education and Science)

Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts