Fine Arts - Visual Arts Kindergarten - Sixth Grades
Artwork about Friends
Description
The Olympic Games provide an opportunity to make friends with people from around the world. This
activity encourages students to create artwork that celebrates the excitement of making new friends.
Themes
Friendship, Celebration, Courage, Heroes
Core Life Skill Connections
Life-long learning shows aesthetic awareness by participating in the arts
for enjoyment and personal growth.
Complex Thinking uses creative, critical problem-solving, decision-making,
and innovative thinking processes; puts information together in new and unique ways; balances reason
and emotion in decision making; considers new ideas and various perspectives to broaden insight and
increase understanding.
Effective Communication successfully interacts with others using a variety
of mediums; expresses ideas, feelings, and beliefs aesthetically; evaluates the effectiveness of
communication; receives and understands ideas communicated through a variety of modes.
Collaboration works effectively with others to identify and achieve specified
results.
Learning Outcomes
Students Will:
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Experience the Olympic value of friendship through the arts
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Experience how creating and performing or exhibiting together is a way of making friends,
establishing traditions, developing friendships, celebrating events with friends, and making
awards for friends and acts of friendship
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Explore media that lend themselves to the creation of awards and the depiction of wintertime
activities
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Learn the components of a poster (headline, illustration, copy, and border) so they can each
create part of a poster within a group
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Learn to tell a story with their art and create symbols for friendship awards
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Write stories about their friends and the art they made for an exhibition of their art
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Activity: Create Artwork about Friends
Preparation
Gather information about friendships made through the Olympics.
Gather information about materials best suited for making awards and depicting wintertime activities.
Help students start drawings of their friends using basic shapes, stick figures, or gestures.
Gather pictures of winter sports and activities both in art works and photography.
Gather examples of awards, trophies, and/or medallions for achievement.
Tools and Resources
Of Course I Can Draw by R.V. Bullough
Prints of winter activities by Currier and Ives, Brueghel, or LeRoy Nieman.
Snowflake Bently
See Further Research section below for further resources.
Instruction
Explain the following:
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One of the best prizes won in the Olympics is a new friend. People come together from all over
the world as perfect strangers and go home with a new friend! Friendship is one of the Olympic
Values that will be celebrated at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Friendships often arise when people cooperate and work together-such as athletes on a team, news
reporters and camera operators, people making food, or score keepers timing and counting the events.
You have probably worked with others to make a team. You probably met some of your friends while
you were working with them to do something fun.
At the elementary level the Olympic Value of Friendship has great meaning for the student. It is
an integral part of their daily lives and development. Who are our friends? How do we meet or
create new friendships? How can I become a better friend to someone? The arts touch all aspects
of a child's being; the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social to name a few.
As children interact within a structured, creative problem-solving activity, they develop the social
skills necessary to help form friendships. These learning activities will build upon friendship 1)
as an act of participating fully with others in creating or performing pieces of art that celebrate
activities friends do together, and 2) by sharing these songs, dances, art, and stories with others
as gifts and products of friendship.
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Place students in groups of three or four students. Identify the tasks involved in making posters
(headline, illustration, copy, and border). Have each student create and contribute an element in
order to complete a poster.
Create a work of art that expresses a story about a friend or an event with a friend.
Create an award for a friend or an award for someone who has performed an act of friendship for you
or someone else.
Create works of art depicting friends playing winter sports or activities.
Give someone a piece of art that is about him or her.
Exhibit someone else's artwork and write a story or message about them or their work of art.
Explain how working together on a dance helped you to learn about someone else and use their
talents to achieve a goal.
Assessment
Students will:
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Produce a visual representation of friendship through a poster, award or dance
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Articulate the ways in which their artwork demonstrates the value of friendship
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Extensions
Now that you have learned to express ideas about friendship through creating art, try to find
famous works of art that depict friendship in book illustrations, fine art books, and at museums
and galleries. You and your class can create an exhibition of art that shows how friends are
made during the winter.
Via the Internet you can give the gift of art to the children in a school from another country
you may have adopted which is sending athletes to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.
Further Research
Internet Resources
Teachers will want to preview these sites carefully.
Songs
Here are ideas for songs from the Silver Burdett Ginn Music Connection Series. Most of the
songs are appropriate for numerous grade levels.
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Kindergarten
Hello, Ev'rybody p. 40 (movement suggested in lesson)
Hurray! I Like It Here p. 4
We Give Thanks p. 96
Second Grade
Best Friends p. 116
Donne-moi la main (Give Me Your Hand) p. 118
Ev'rybody's Welcome p. 149
How Good and Joyous p. 32
Little Bit More of Love p. 209
That's What Friends Are For p. 117
Working Together p. 160
You're a Friend of Mine p. 205
Third Grade
American Children p. 130
It's a Small World p. 16
Make a Rainbow p. 128
The Jasmine Flower p. 58
The Surprise p. 32
We Come to Greet You in Peace (Hevenu Shalom Aleichem) p. 124
Fourth Grade
Candle on the Water p. 98
Common Ground p. 192
Happy Days p. 62
Make New Friends p. 275
Music, Music, Music p. 77
Side by Side p. 85
Song for the Children p. 4
That's How I'd Be Without You p. 42
The Answer Lies in... p. 96
Cantare, Cantaras (I Will Sing, You Will Sing) p. 226
Give a Little Love p. 18
Hineh Mah Tov p. 279
Lean on Me p. 128
Love in Any Language p. 216
We Are the World p. 4
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