Family Portrait Contours

Art Lesson Plan

Instructional Objectives: 

• Students will demonstrate appropriate use of scissors and glue.
• Students incorporate images, subjects, and symbols into art work.

Elements of Art: 
Shape, space, and value.

Principles of Design:
Balance and contrast.

Materials and Equipment:
Scissors, 8x11 construction paper, pencils, white glue, loose leaf paper, sharpies.

Vocabulary:
Contour, blind contour, portrait, and composition.

Art production:

1. Discuss family portraits with students
2. Tell students they will be making a family portrait today
3. Show an example of a portrait
4. Show students how to draw and contour a portrait
5. Students will draw portraits as I walk around to help
6. Cut the portraits out
7. Allow students to cut, walk around to help
8. Show students how to glue the portraits
9. Let students glue, walk around to help
10. Art gallery
11. Clean/pack up

Resources:
Show pictures of family portraits online, my example

Aesthetic questions:

• "Do you take family portraits every year?"
• "Do other cultures take family portraits?"

Analysis:
Create a gallery walk. Ask which portrait is their favorite and why.

Evaluation criteria:
Rubric