4-5 Grade Tuileries Gardens Ink Stamp Hot Air Balloons
![]() The following project was completed by an art teacher at the Toledo Museum of Art. I was in the class as an observer and helped the students with their projects.
AED 5900, Toledo Museum of Art 4-5 Grades Mixed Media Project: Ink Stamp Tuileries Hot Air Balloons Class Time: 2 hour period Preparation: 12 students Teacher: Paula Nowicki Observer: Patricia Whittington Art Background to the Lesson Plan Subject: Tuileries Gardens in Paris France. Learning about Louis IV, V, VI, and a brief history on the palace and how it was converted to the Louvre Gallery. Students will paint a backdrop landscape for their building and their hot air balloon. Students will work with paints, inks and Styrofoam to create an ink stamped composite or collage of a landscape representing a place and or story. Gallery Visit: Students were escorted to the museum to the Tuileries Garden exhibit. Students were encouraged to view all the paintings on display that had landscapes and hot air balloons as part of the subject matter. Students were encouraged to sketch the shapes of buildings they saw and place the shape of a hot air balloon in with the sketches. |
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Pre-Assessment: Were Hot air balloons a form of transportation? Recreation?
Content Area Subjects: Environment, Culture, Language Arts
Supplies: White8 x 11 construction paper, pencils, practice sketch paper, small drawing boards and clips. ¼ inch Styrofoam sheets precut for buildings and balloon, wooden stick pointers to draw patterns in Styrofoam or sharpened pencils, tempera cakes, water containers, water, paintbrushes, various colors of ink, ink rollers, plastic or glass plates. newspaper and paper towel.
Art Elements: Shapes, Form, Lines, Color, Texture.
Principles of Design: Repetition, balance, pattern, symmetry, perspective
Classroom Management: When the students returned to the classroom, the teacher had them sit around the outside of the tables so the students can view the chalkboard. Students watch as the teacher demonstrates how to draw building shaped outline with doors and windows and the hot air balloon shape. Students were then given sample pattern shapes they can use to draw inside their hot air balloon. Other ideas would be to suggest warm and cool colors, complimentary color scheme or color mixing.
Content Area Subjects: Environment, Culture, Language Arts
Supplies: White8 x 11 construction paper, pencils, practice sketch paper, small drawing boards and clips. ¼ inch Styrofoam sheets precut for buildings and balloon, wooden stick pointers to draw patterns in Styrofoam or sharpened pencils, tempera cakes, water containers, water, paintbrushes, various colors of ink, ink rollers, plastic or glass plates. newspaper and paper towel.
Art Elements: Shapes, Form, Lines, Color, Texture.
Principles of Design: Repetition, balance, pattern, symmetry, perspective
Classroom Management: When the students returned to the classroom, the teacher had them sit around the outside of the tables so the students can view the chalkboard. Students watch as the teacher demonstrates how to draw building shaped outline with doors and windows and the hot air balloon shape. Students were then given sample pattern shapes they can use to draw inside their hot air balloon. Other ideas would be to suggest warm and cool colors, complimentary color scheme or color mixing.
Students used tempera cakes to paint a ground and sky landscape. Students could add gardens, clouds, sun and other objects into their landscapes.
While the landscape painting dried, the students use pre-cut block sheets of Styrofoam to draw out their buildings and their hot air balloons and baskets. Students will draw out their patterns on the Styrofoam and use wooden pointed sticks or sharp pencils to press in the grove line indents that make up their patterns. Students can then cut the shape of the subjects from the rest of the styrofoam.
Once the Styrofoam patterns are cut out and landscape paintings are dry, the student can go to the inking table to roll on various colors of ink.
Once the Styrofoam patterns are cut out and landscape paintings are dry, the student can go to the inking table to roll on various colors of ink.
Once the ink has dried a little, the students can cut out the main shape of the building or hot air balloon. Have the students glue stick the area on their landscape painting where they want to place their palace building and hot air balloon with basket.
Alternatives to the Lesson Plan:
If ink stamp is not available, then students can use thin paint.
Alternatives to the Lesson Plan:
If ink stamp is not available, then students can use thin paint.