Curated OER
Celebrate With Silhouettes
Students explore history of silhouettes, and help create keepsake silhouettes, frame them, or use them to make a special Mother's Day card.
Curated OER
Western Sunsets
Students observe and paint sunsets. In this sunsets lesson plan, students look outside and at pictures of sunsets, paint sunsets using water color or tempura paint, and cut out silhouettes from black paper and insert them into the painting.
Curated OER
Sunset Silhouette
Students create sunset silhouettes using watercolors, construction paper, glue, scissors, and paintbrushes in this early-elementary Visual Art lesson. The lesson includes a vocabulary list and a definition of silhouettes for use in the...
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Hand Shadows
This one-stanza poem describes a father demonstrating hand shadows while camping in a tent.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Line
This online dictionary of art terms from Artlex is a valuable tool. Line is on the Li page. Just scroll down to Line and read a definition with links or look at a sample works of art by Rembrandt or Richard Long. There are quotes by...
EL Education
El Education: Searching for Freedom Matisse Cards
Students use colored note cards to create silhouettes of each other. Each silhouette is a physical expression of freedom and slavery. Students cut out the silhouettes to create the Matisse Cut-Out style graphic.
Curated OER
Snaith Primary School: Settings: Sunset
A painting of a sunset over silhouettes of trees and a large rock by Tony Newlin.