Student Teacher: Jessica Calhoun

Subject: Art
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Lesson Title: Day of the Dead Paper Plate Masks
Duration: 2-3, 40-minute class periods
Materials Needed:

Power Point with image examples

Miscellaneous Day of the Dead Items
Day of the Dead book
Markers
Paper Plates
Tongue Depressors
Hot glue gun, hot glue sticks
8.5x11 Paper
Pre-made folders with visual examples of shapes, patterns, and designs for each table
group

Standard(s):
Grade K-4 Visual Arts Standard 4:
Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures
Grade K-4 Visual Arts Standard 2:
Using knowledge of structures and functions
Lesson Objective(s):

1. Provide objectives: (What are students going to learn?)

Students will be able to design and decorate a mask using pattern and shapes
Students will be able to understand and talk about another culture

2. Demonstrate knowledge or skill: (Input/Modeling by the teacher)

Students will create a sugar skull mask made out a paper plate, demonstrating pattern and
design after practicing shapes and patterns during a draw along activity.
3. Provide guided practice: (Guided practice with the teacher)

After the initial power point introduction to Dios ded los muertos, I will have students practice
drawing shapes and designs commonly found in Dios de los muertos Art work and give students
to opportunity to create their own patterns using what they have learned.

4. Check for understanding and provide student feedback: (How will you know students
understand the skill or concept? How will they know they get it?)?
The draw a long activity done prior to creating their final masks will be treated as an informal
assessment and practice, to check for understanding before creating their final product.

5: Provide extended practice and transfer: (Independent practice of the skill)

The independent practice and demonstration of the skill will be their final mask.
Learning Plan/ Time Frame
Day 1:

I will start the project by introducing the Hispanic cultural holiday, Dios de los muertos,
through means of a power point, physical examples, and verbal lecture to the class.
I will allow students time to ask questions and formulate visual observations and
conclusions through out the lecture, guiding as needed.
I will then use the image projector and paraphrase a picture book on Dios de los muertos,
providing the students further insight to the cultural holiday.
We will have a draw along activity, using examples of pre-made sugar skulls and images,
I will guide the class through drawing different shapes and lines to make patterns that will
later be used on the final paper plate masks.

Day 2:

Start class by reviewing Dios de los muertos and shapes, lines, and designs.
Continue the draw along activity if needed
Pick job helpers to pass out pre-cut paper plates, markers, and pre-made folders with
pattern examples in them to each table
Have students draw practiced and self-created patterns on to sugar skull paper plates
Teacher will hot glue tongue depressors on to the bottom/back of the finished masks

Day 3 (Optional):

Finish final mask if was not completed in the last class period. Catch up for any students
that were absent during the last class period.