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What Do You See?

Looking at Beautiful Art

Day 27of 180
Week 6of 36
20Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Identify basic shapes in artwork

2

Describe what they see in a picture

3

Practice using descriptive words

📖 Scripture Connection

Psalm 104:24

“Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.”

— Psalm 104:24 (WEB)

God creates beautiful things, and we can enjoy looking at and describing His wonderful creation

📦 Materials Needed

  • Colorful picture book or art print
  • Blank white paper
  • Crayons or markers
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Welcome to today's BibleMouse art exploration! Let's remember how we looked at colors yesterday and now we'll look even closer at pictures.

💭 Review Question: What colors did we see in our last lesson?
2Teaching (7 min)

Today we're going to be art detectives! We'll look carefully at a picture and talk about what we see.

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Look for big shapes
  • Find different lines
  • Point to things you recognize
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What shapes do you see?
  • Can you find a circle? A triangle?
3Activity: Art Detective Game (8 min)
discussion

Examine an artwork together, pointing out and describing what you see

📝 Instructions:
  1. Sit close to the artwork
  2. Take turns pointing to different parts
  3. Use words like 'big', 'small', 'round', 'straight'
  4. Draw a simple picture inspired by what you saw
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Just point and name things you see

Challenge: Try to draw something from the artwork

4Closing (3 min)

Celebrate what we discovered in our picture today!

📝 Review Questions:
  • What was your favorite part of the picture?
  • What shapes did we find?

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll talk about how art makes us feel!

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

PK3 children are just beginning to observe and describe artwork carefully

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Be patient and encouraging
  • Accept any observations, even if they seem random
  • Use lots of positive reinforcement
🤔 Common Struggles:

Staying focused and using descriptive language

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Attempts to point out or describe elements in the picture

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Use BibleMouse Printables Library for shape tracing
  • Take a nature walk and find shapes in the world around you

Ready for Tomorrow?

Great job completing today's lesson!

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