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🎨 Kindergarten · ArtVA:Cr1.1Unit 4: Sculpture & 3D art

Found-object art

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🎯 Objective: Students build a sculpture from recycled materials.

Lesson outline

  1. Sort materials.
  2. Build.
  3. Name your sculpture.
  4. Exit: title and why.

Lesson 3 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

VA:Cr1.1

National Core Arts Standards — Visual Arts (grade band K–2)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Build forms with clay and paper

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🖍️ Coloring pages🎨 Drawing ideas⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Sculpture & 3D art”

  1. Pinch pots
  2. Paper sculpture
  3. Found-object art

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