Changes to the Environment

Thematic Unit Topic: Garden

Classroom Area: Art
Britney Collins 15/15
List the Items o! "lan to Introd!ce and #o$ %!ch They &ill Cost 'a minim!m o( )*:
+emem,er:
1. Basket of Fake Fruits and Vegetables
a. Cost: Free / Taken from other areas of the classroom
2. Food Stamps made out of Potatoes, eler!, and "nions
a. Cost: #$.%% / &andmade ' (aterials needed) Potatoes, eler!, and "nions
*. Food shaped cookie cutters

a. Cost: #+.%% / Thrift store
+. Seeds
a. Cost: ,onation / -ocal herbal store
$. Sticks to paint .ith

a. Cost: Free / ollected from nature
/. Sponges and mop brush
a. Cost: Free/ &andmade from rec!cled materials

0. Pinecones

a. Cost: Free / Taken from other areas of the classroom
1. String
a. Cost: Free / Taken from garden
2. Popsicle Sticks
a. Cost: ,onation / From afeteria
1%. (ud cla!
a. Cost: ,onations / &andmade ' (aterials needed mud, bricks, red and gra! soil, and .ater
11. Pieces of flo.ers, gra3el, grass, and lea3es
a. Cost: Free / ollected from nature
&hen $ill yo! introd!ce these items- 'At the ,eginning o( the thematic !nit. thro!gho!t the !nit /
d!ring a small gro!p lesson plan. circle time*
4 .ill introduce the materials throughout the unit during circle time. &ere 4 .ill in3ite .hoe3er .ishes to create
art and sho. them ho. each item should be used, but still allo. them to be creati3e and use them ho.e3er the!
.ant.
Are there any 0special1 r!les that the children need to (ollo$ $hen !sing these items-
Because these materials are open ended 4 do not .ish to put restrictions on their creati3it! so the one rules the!
.ill need to follo. is to not eat the food stamps. "ther.ise the! can use an! other materials ho. e3er the!
.ant.
&hat do yo! hope the children to learn-
4 hope the children .ill learn to use the natural materials to e5press their creati3it!. 4 hope the! .ill learn to
share the materials and take turns. 4 also hope their fine motor skills .ill be de3eloped b! handling the tools. 4
also hope the! .ill create .ork that s!mboli6es nature.
&hat are some $ays that the children can 0re(lect1 on $hat they have learned-
The children .ill be able to reflect on .hat the! ha3e learned b! re3ie.ing pictures that .ill be taken of them
.hile the! are creating. Their art.ork e3en if it is *, .ill be displa!ed around the classroom and can also be
taken home. Their art.ork .ill be created and displa!ed both indoors and outdoors. So the! can al.a!s
appreciate their accomplishments and creati3it!.