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Big and Small

Space: Front and Back

Day 32of 180
Week 7of 36
35Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand how objects appear larger when close and smaller when far away

2

Draw objects in different sizes to show depth and perspective

3

Appreciate God's creative design in visual perception

📖 Scripture Connection

Psalm 8:3-4

“When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained, what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?”

— Psalm 8:3-4 (WEB)

Demonstrates how perspective changes our understanding of size and importance, just as we appear small compared to God's vast creation

📦 Materials Needed

  • Drawing paper
  • Crayons or colored pencils
  • Markers
  • BibleMouse Grade 1 Art Resource Guide
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (5 min)

Welcome to today's BibleMouse art adventure! Let's play a fun size game. Stand near a window and look at something far away. Now move close to it. What changes?

💭 Review Question: What did we learn about the front and back of pictures yesterday?
2Teaching (10 min)

Today we'll discover how things look bigger or smaller depending on how close or far they are.

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Objects in the front of a picture look BIGGER
  • Objects in the back of a picture look SMALLER
  • This helps create depth in our drawings
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • Can you find something big in the front of the room?
  • What looks small from where you're sitting?
3Activity: Big and Small Drawing Adventure (15 min)
hands-on

Create a picture showing objects of different sizes

📝 Instructions:
  1. Draw a big tree in the front of your paper
  2. Draw smaller trees in the back
  3. Add a tiny house or mountain in the distance
  4. Color your picture with bright colors
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Draw 3 trees with different sizes

Challenge: Add details like clouds, birds, or landscape features

4Closing (5 min)

Let's share our drawings and talk about how we made things look big and small!

📝 Review Questions:
  • What made things look far away?
  • How did you show size in your picture?

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll learn about how objects can overlap to show which is closer!

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

First graders are learning spatial relationships and how to represent 3D space on a 2D surface

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Be patient and encouraging
  • Focus on fun, not perfection
  • Use lots of positive reinforcement
🤔 Common Struggles:

Children might get frustrated trying to make things look 'realistic'

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Enthusiasm, creativity, and basic understanding of size perspective

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Take a nature walk and discuss how things look different up close and far away
  • Use BibleMouse Printables Library for additional perspective drawing worksheets

Ready for Tomorrow?

Great job completing today's lesson!

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