![]() Art is a great way to allow students to explore their own choice of mediums and they can do social emotional art as artworks themselves or you can explore them during the month of November as sketchbook assignments. So what a kid looks like themself when they are in the Green Zone or if they’re feeling calm and peaceful… they can draw what it looks like when they, specifically, are feeling down or feeling blue or sad or they can draw what they look like when they are in the yellow zone and their feeling worried or frustrated or scared all those kinds of things can be expressed in art. You can also teach social emotional learning by exploring emotions and what they look like through drawings and artworks. As well students can use this opportunity to explore things that they can control and can’t control in their own worlds by drawing it instead of just writing about it. They can also incorporate their dreams for the future on the same artwork. For example, kids can create artworks that reflect on their own past! This is where they get out the things that are maybe their worries or that are bothering them, or they can think about things that bring them happiness. Some of the things that you can teach for social emotional learning in your classroom are Growth Mindset lessons, you can teach kids about the Zones of Regulation, you can teach kids to reflect on experiences in their own lives, and you can also have kids set goals and think about their dreams and aspirations for their future. I love using art as an opportunity to teach Social Emotional Learning, which is also known as SEL, in the art classroom. Before they create they can take a photograph of the person, then they can use that picture as reference in a portrait artwork they create for that month… and if they’re doing a larger piece that is something that will take a lot of time and might be a whole theme in November.įor Thanksgiving Art Ideas, scroll to the bottom! There is even a FREE YouTube Turkey Drawing Tutorial! Photo by Gratisography on Either it’s a family or a friend or someone that is playing a leadership role in their own life, whatever that means to them. Perhaps in the middle school or high school levels kids can find or take a picture of someone that they’re thankful for in their own worlds. Finally, they can create a portrait of someone that they are thankful for. ![]() ![]() So your theme for your sketchbook or your prompt that month or one of the weeks in November could be “what are you grateful for” or “what are you thankful for”. Your sketchbook prompt in November or a sketchbook assignment in November could have the theme grateful. Kids can also create by using this as a sketchbook prompt. As well they can add words to their collages or their artworks that explain or show further meaning for what grateful means to them. They can cut out things that they are grateful for or appreciate having in their lives, or they can also add their own drawings of things that they’re grateful for, or appreciate and value in their worlds. They can go through magazines and then use a variety of art mediums to clip out letters that spell the word grateful and paste them onto their paper. Other ways you can incorporate the theme “grateful” in your classroom is by having students create collages. That’s one way that you can start talking and creating grateful themed artworks in your classroom. Once you can visually see all the different ideas that the kids have liked, (so it’s kind of like a Facebook like but with either stickers or like post-it notes) then you can kind of build a unit around their own interests. In this way you can immediately be informed as to what you should plan for the next month or so and also plan in a way that covers your own student’s interests which will of course, immediately engage them! This way they are voting for a favorite idea! You could have them do 2 votes if they are smaller or if you have a smaller class. Now you can have kids take pictures of the collaborative posters or go and hang them around the room and then you can have them take little post-it notes or tiny stickers and they can place their sticker or note beside an idea they like. So you can spend some time now having kids collaborate maybe on collaborative posters where they are creating large brainstorms over what they think they could create. Next you can ask your kids what kind of art that they can make that shows what the word grateful means or what thankful means or what kindness is. You can cover Topics such as a feeling of appreciation or kindness and you can also talk about it being thankful and what that means and looks like… so you can really talk a lot about kindness and appreciation. First you can begin by brainstorming what the word grateful means with your class. ![]() OK so for the month of November, the first theme that you can do with your class is to create art with the theme “grateful”.
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