Christmas and Winter trees narrated video tutorial art lesson Grades K-2
Teach students how to paint a Christmas Trees or Snowy Pine Winter trees with this narrated video tutorial art lesson. Created for Grades K-2.
This is a fully narrated video tutorial that demonstrates 2 x options with all steps in real time, to be more inclusive for all students. Offer the choice of which tree they would like to create. Use to supplement any learning during the Christmas and Winter Season. A great way to finish the December term.
Benefits of using a video lesson:
- The lesson has already been tested
- All steps are viewable from start to finish
- Techniques are demonstrated
- Rewind and rewatch as many times as needed
- Narrated explanation adds depth to understanding art theories
- Its like having an art specialist in your classroom or home
- Encourages independence in learners and self management
- Allows for students to work at their individual pace
- Hosted on YouTube (unlisted) and accessed from the link in the PDF support document
- Not cluttering up your hard drive
- Added benefit of PL in Visual Art teaching for the purchasing classroom teacher
- Includes a PDF lesson companion with support information - UK & US spelling options included for colour/color, delete slides you don't want.
- Lockdown Remote Teaching: Limited permission is granted for the purchasing teacher only, to live stream through screen sharing with their class, strictly limited for remote teaching during a government mandated lockdown
Use to supplement & extend learning in a Social Studies inquiry on festivals and celebrations (How we express ourselves - IB PYP).
Can also use as a response with a Literature study.
Stream the video lesson through a large screen for your child or students to follow along, pausing in places for them to complete the steps at their own pace, or rewind and rewatch when needed.
This method can also offer time for opportunities to explore student responses or modifications, bringing personal creative ideas to the tutorial. Addresses the Viewing & Responding to artwork concepts.
Suits: most students in grades K, 1st and 2nd, and homeschooling families.
Children will: create an artwork of a Pine tree, either decorated as a Christmas tree or as a snowy pine in the moonlight, with falling snow.
Learning intentions include: structure drawings using a ruler to draw lines and shapes, painting and adding textures, develop glue-glitter technique.
Media demonstrated: Acrylic paint, glue and glitter. Some drying time required throughout the project.
Materials needed: A4* Black art paper, white art paper, coloured pencils, acrylic paint, paintbrushes, a ruler, pencil and marker, craft items, plus glitter and liquid glue.
*A4 = 8.5 by 11 inches (215.9 by 279.4 mm)
The video preview below is a very short clip from the actual resource. I am both a general ed classroom teacher and currently practicing as a Visual Art and Digital Media specialist educator, teaching students from ages 4-12, at a primary school.
Also included in the support documents are:
- Learning Intentions for the IBPYP and NZC at level 1 / Phase 1 but these will closely match LO's from other curriculums.
- Student Voice reflection/assessment guides
Educators, more confident in visual art delivery, can browse my comprehensive PDF lesson plans in the following sub-categories:
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