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Showing Feelings in Poems

Illustrating Poetry

Day 153of 180
Week 31of 36
35Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand how colors and lines can express emotions

2

Create an illustration that shows the mood of a poem

3

Develop creativity and emotional expression through art

📖 Scripture Connection

Psalms 34:8

“Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.”

— Psalms 34:8 (WEB)

Just as this verse invites us to experience God's goodness, our art lesson invites children to experience and express emotions through poetry and illustration

📦 Materials Needed

  • Drawing paper
  • Watercolors or crayons
  • Markers
  • Simple poems about feelings
  • BibleMouse Resource Guide: Grade 1 Art
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Gather and review yesterday's nature poem illustrations

💭 Review Question: What did you enjoy about drawing pictures for poems?
2Teaching (12 min)

Introduce how feelings can be shown through art

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Different colors can show different feelings
  • Soft lines can show calm, sharp lines can show excitement
  • Artists use pictures to share emotions
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What colors make you feel happy?
  • How might you draw a sad feeling?
3Activity: Feelings Poetry Illustration (14 min)
hands-on

Choose a simple poem and create an illustration that shows its emotional mood

📝 Instructions:
  1. Listen to the poem carefully
  2. Think about how the poem makes you feel
  3. Choose colors that match those feelings
  4. Draw shapes and lines that express the emotion
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Use pre-selected poems from BibleMouse Printables Library

Challenge: Write a short original poem about a feeling, then illustrate it

4Closing (3 min)

Share illustrations and discuss emotions

📝 Review Questions:
  • What feeling did you show in your picture?
  • How did you use colors to show that feeling?

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll create art for a Bible verse

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Young children are learning to recognize and express complex emotions

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Be encouraging about their artistic choices
  • Focus on expression, not technical perfection
  • Use BibleMouse Resource Guide for additional guidance
🤔 Common Struggles:

Children might feel uncertain about representing abstract emotions

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Willingness to experiment, joy in creating, ability to describe their artwork

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Create a feelings color wheel
  • Act out emotions while creating artwork
  • Listen to BibleMouse emotion-related worship songs

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