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Lesson/Activity Name: Kindness Rocks
Overall Purpose: Sharing Kindness
Theme: Kindness
Learning Standard(s):
Visual Arts
I would like the children to express themselves through art and kind words. Kind words make everyone happy and writing them on a rock can be powerful to help someone who needs to uplift their emotions.
Motivational Techniques: (What will you use to pair with lesson (i.e. a book, song, video etc) All listed below!
1. Scribble Stones - book read aloud
2. The i in Kind - inspirational clip
3. DIY Painting Kindness Rocks
Procedures: (Step by Step how to do the activity)
Materials:
Do you know why we are spreading kindness?
Talk about all types of kindness acts, and words that make others feel happy.
Assessment:
Creating visual art is an ancient, and probably universal, practice. Young children start illustrating and decorating as toddlers, and are usually eager to work on and study art throughout their school years, if not through adulthood. With skilled guidance, making and studying art can help children cultivate not only art techniques and creative expression, but also thinking skills such as questioning, observing and describing, comparing and connecting, and exploring complexity.
Modifications:
If you do not have paint, or if you do not want to use spices to paint with, then you could just color with markers on the rocks, and then use a black marker to write down the kind works on top of your beautiful artwork.
Helpful Hints:
If paint, spices, and markers are not working you could just write down on a piece of paper kind words, cut them out, and hide them around the house for family members to find!
Lesson/Activity Name: Kindness Rocks
Overall Purpose: Sharing Kindness
Theme: Kindness
Learning Standard(s):
Visual Arts
- Methods, Materials, and Techniques. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the methods, materials, and techniques unique to the visual arts.
- Elements and Principles of Design. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the elements and principles of design.
- Observation, Abstraction, Invention, and Expression. Students will demonstrate their powers of observation, abstraction, invention, and expression in a variety of media, materials, and techniques.
- Drafting, Revising, and Exhibiting. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the processes of creating and exhibiting their own artwork: drafts, critique, self-assessment, refinement, and exhibit preparation.
- Critical Response. Students will describe and analyze their own work and the work of others using appropriate visual arts vocabulary. When appropriate, students will connect their analysis to interpretation and evaluation.
I would like the children to express themselves through art and kind words. Kind words make everyone happy and writing them on a rock can be powerful to help someone who needs to uplift their emotions.
Motivational Techniques: (What will you use to pair with lesson (i.e. a book, song, video etc) All listed below!
1. Scribble Stones - book read aloud
2. The i in Kind - inspirational clip
3. DIY Painting Kindness Rocks
Procedures: (Step by Step how to do the activity)
- Go for nature walks around the yard, or neighborhood (if you have rocks in your home already, fantastic!)
- Wash rock with soap and water in your sink, then let dry
- Paint rocks with spices/water mixture, or paint
- When paint is dry, ask your child “what are some kind words/sayings/ideas we could write on the rocks” examples; be the change, beautiful, live laugh love, smile, or just draw a rainbow!
- When rocks with paint are dry, go for a walk and you can place them on the ground so someone can find it. You could also hide them around the house so the other adult can find that kindness rock, or a sibling.
Materials:
- Rocks
- Paint/Spices (vanilla, turmeric, cinnamon, ginger, chili, paprika)
- Markers
- Soap
- Water
- Paintbrush (or you could use your fingers)
Do you know why we are spreading kindness?
Talk about all types of kindness acts, and words that make others feel happy.
Assessment:
Creating visual art is an ancient, and probably universal, practice. Young children start illustrating and decorating as toddlers, and are usually eager to work on and study art throughout their school years, if not through adulthood. With skilled guidance, making and studying art can help children cultivate not only art techniques and creative expression, but also thinking skills such as questioning, observing and describing, comparing and connecting, and exploring complexity.
Modifications:
If you do not have paint, or if you do not want to use spices to paint with, then you could just color with markers on the rocks, and then use a black marker to write down the kind works on top of your beautiful artwork.
Helpful Hints:
If paint, spices, and markers are not working you could just write down on a piece of paper kind words, cut them out, and hide them around the house for family members to find!
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