Feathered Friends: Mask Making (1 - 4)
Overview
| Program Description: |
This visual arts program aligns with Grade 4 Module 4: Myth Making. The art of the mask is one of our oldest forms of storytelling with roots in Africa, and the art form is utilized around the world t... Read more
This visual arts program aligns with Grade 4 Module 4: Myth Making. The art of the mask is one of our oldest forms of storytelling with roots in Africa, and the art form is utilized around the world throughout history to express ideas often without words. Sova Dance & Puppet Theater shares our own artistic mask creations with students. Students cut & construct their own paper bird masks made out of cardstock of at least two colors of their choosing. Students will use a variety of shapes, including at least one quadrilateral that they select, to add some unique features. Students will fold shapes to cut some symmetrical forms for their masks. Students will use their masks to imagine transforming into a feathered character for our grande finale. As a group and/or individually (or smaller groups) in presentation-style, students will move to music and explore moving or flocking together. We will imagine the lives of birds together through movement and enact social worlds of birds and interaction with plants and trees.
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| Available to Grade(s): |
1, 2, 3, 4 |
Logistics
| Program Format: |
In-School Workshop |
| Program Format Details: |
Program intended for individual classes of a grade level to experience separately. |
| Cost Per Student: |
$10 |
| Number of Visits: |
2 |
| Length of Visit: |
60 minutes |
| Availability: |
All year |
Requirements
| Length Info: |
The teachers can choose either 2 days at 45-60 minutes each or 1 day at 90-120 minutes for the full workshop in one day. |
| Program Requires Prior Meeting: |
no |
| Materials Arts Provider Provides: |
Cardstock, Glue sticks, Tape, Duct tape, Scissors, Staplers, Bluetooth speaker |
| Materials School Provides: |
Pencils and erasers
Rulers are also helpful! |
| Space: |
Classroom |
| Space and/or Set Up Requirements for Program: |
The majority of the workshop students will be at their individual desks while making their masks; some presentation space is required for the final 20 minutes of Day 2 to explore bird character moveme... Read more
The majority of the workshop students will be at their individual desks while making their masks; some presentation space is required for the final 20 minutes of Day 2 to explore bird character movements for a grand finale set to music. A stage could be helpful for that ending and the potential exists for all of the classes to meet at the end of Day 2 for presentations for each other.
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Learning Standards
| Curriculum Focus: |
Math |
| Common Core Standard: |
K - 5: Geometry |
| Art Form: |
Visual Art |
| Core Art Standard: |
Creating Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. |
| Program Learning Targets: |
The students will make decisions of color choice, and design elements of their own making.
The students will observe each transformations that can happen suddenly when putting on a full bird mask.
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The students will make decisions of color choice, and design elements of their own making.
The students will observe each transformations that can happen suddenly when putting on a full bird mask.
Students will begin to create characters for their masks or relate the ability to transform to myths that they might know or be learning about.
Grade 1: Powerful Forces
Grade 2: Seasons of Change
Grade 3: Artists Make Art
Grade 4: Myth Making
Grade 5: Cultures in Conflict
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| Wit & Wisdom Connection: |
Grade 4 Module 4: Myth Making |
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