Grade 2 Arts & Crafts

Semester A

Art provides an opportunity for children to develop the use of their senses directly and encourages the student to further develop what they already know as a source of knowledge and creativity. Art offers the student an opportunity to express feelings and emotions in their drawings and with color. Arts and Crafts promote self-esteem and self-awareness as it enhances personal fulfillment.

Children have a wonderful imagination that, if encouraged, will be needed throughout their life. This course provides an opportunity for self-discipline through instruction and cooperation while providing the student with an opportunity for self-expression by using imaginative thinking for creative solutions. Learners will begin the course by creating a color wheel and understanding the difference between primary, secondary, and complementary colors. Learners will use watercolors to create a value chart and begin to understand symmetry in art. At the end of the semester, students will work with clay and create a Memorial Clay.

Semester B

In Semester B of Arts and Crafts, students continue to explore their creativity while also learning ways that art can be functional and add to objects and materials that we use on an everyday basis. Students will begin the semester by creating a 12-month calendar. The students will focus on a new month each week. They will also be able to pick a different clay project each week from The Book of Nature Crafts and/or Clay Fun. Once students have completed the calendar project, they will begin to work on form drawing and make a seasonal chart using objects familiar with each of the four seasons. The course concludes with students working with wet crayons and wet paper.

This course will provide students with opportunities to experience many different forms of arts and to express their imagination while learning valuable skills. Each student is an individual with unique ideas and talents. Our goal is to provide each student an opportunity for personal growth for themselves and the world in which we live.

Semester A

Module 1: Leaf Prints
Module 2: Puppet Clothes
Module 3: Fabric Book Marks
Module 4: Watercolor Still-Life
Module 5: Watercolor Landscape
Module 6: Cubist Castle
Module 7: Create Snowflakes
Module 8: Symmetrical Pattern Painting
Module 9: Symmetrical Paper Bug
Module 10: Marker Print Blocks
Module 11: Abstract Printing
Module 12: Create a Screen Print
Module 13: Create a Seasonal Drawing using Pastels
Module 14: Oil Pastel Landscape
Module 15: Doodle Critter
Module 16: Origami Animals
Module 17: Rainy Day Spiral Mobile
Module 18: Pop-up Card

Semester A Syllabus

Semester B

Module 20: Soap Dish
Module 21: Troll Puppet Head
Module 22: Painted Flower Pot
Module 23: Nature’s Necklace
Module 24: Stained Glass Window Hangings
Module 25: Woven Friendship Bracelets
Module 26: Woven Necklace
Module 27: Woven Flower
Module 28: Beading on Burlap
Module 29: Bead Weaving
Module 30: Friendship Bracelets
Module 31: Food Sculptures
Module 32: Fruit and Vegetable Printing
Module 33: Colored Eggs
Module 34: Bird Nest Supply Box
Module 35: Tree Saver Plastic Bag Holder
Module 36: Make a Pencil Holder from a Recycled Bottle

Semester B Syllabus