Oh Kindergarten, what to do with you! At least this is what I thought until I came up with the idea of exploring textures! First we started off this project using the "Magic Texture Bag." This was just a recycled apple store bag that I had, that I covered with the word texture. I put all different kinds of items with various textures inside the bag, and the kindergartners each got a turn to stick their hands in the bag and describe what they felt to the class out loud. We got to make a class list of texture words up on the board while they were doing this so that we could see just how many different texture words we could come up with! Then I set up texture rubbing stations where the students followed the arrows on the tables to tell them which way to move when they were finished with one station. There were four different textures set up, so the students had to make sure they had all four done! We talked about using the side of the crayons to help get the best results of the texture rubbings.
After they completed their texture rubbings they were instructed to cut them up into strips - we got to practice cutting in straight lines! then they were able to glue them to another sheet of paper making sure to cover the whole thing! Most students used different colored crayons during their texture rubbing stations, so their collages were a bit more interesting. Once they had their background paper covered, then they could come up and pick out their real textures that they were going to add on. We added this part to our collage to remind us about textures, and that there are textures you can see and textures you can feel!
The learning objectives of this lesson are as follows:
-The learner will be able to DESCRIBE the texture they are feeling in the bag without looking
-The learner will be able to TRANSFER the textures onto their paper using the crayon rubbing technique correctly
-The learner will be able to CUT their texture rubbings into strips to use for the final texture collage
-The learner will be able to ARRANGE/DESIGN their cut up texture rubbing pieces to show how different colors and textures can be next to each other in a collage for a good composition on their final collage paper.
Academic Vocabulary:
- Textures (real vs implied)
- Texture Rubbing
- Collage