Food Face

Standards
National Visual Arts Standards:
VA:Cr1.1.3 Elaborate on an imaginative idea.
VA:Cr2.1.3 Create personally satisfying artwork using a variety of artistic
processes and materials.
VA:Cr2.2.3 Demonstrate an understanding of the safe and proficient use of
materials, tools, and equipment for a variety of artistic processes.
VA:Cr3.1.3 Elaborate visual information by adding details in an artwork to
enhance emerging meaning.
VA:Re7.1.3 Speculate about processes an artist uses to create a work of art.
ShowMe Visual Standards :
Knowledge of the principles and elements of different art forms
GLEs:
I:2.A.3 Manipulate paper to create forms.
II:1.B.3 Differentiate between shapes and forms.
V:1.A.3 Identify works of art from Europe.

Enduring Big Idea

A healthy body is the foundation for a good life. It is helpful to understand
what goes into a healthy body and what foods keep you healthy.

Rational
It is important for the students to learn how to keep their bodies healthy so that
they recognize healthy choices in their everyday lives. They can use what they
learn in their health unit and apply it to this art lesson. The students will use
the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo as inspiration to create their own Food
Face that represents a balanced diet based on the MyPlate template.

Objectives
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After the lesson on Giuseppe Arcimboldo students will be able to

create a face out of artificial fruit.
Students will expand their understandings of how to stay healthy by
using prior knowledge of from their Health unit to create a healthy
food person.
During the art making process students will cut fruit shapes out of
construction paper to used to make facial features.
During the art making process students will select to represent fruit
that represents a balanced diet as suggested by Myplate.

Food Face

Heather Kippenberer
3rd Grade - Seek

Materials

Construction Paper

Sketchbooks

Markers

Crayons

Colored Pencils

Assortment of vegetables
(digital or tangible)

Scissors

Glue

Paper for Mounting Face

When Done

Essential Questions

What Foods should you eat

to keep your body Healthy?

How does Arcimboldo use

fruit and other objects to
create faces?

Key Concepts

How to cut and embellish

construction paper to represent
foods.
Represent a healthy diet of food
groups by using Arcimboldo as
inspiration.
Create a face out of food that
represents a healthy diet using
Myplate as a guide.

Inspiration:
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
MyPlate food group guides

Vocabulary
Healthy, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Mannerism, Still-Life, Drawing with scissors

Lesson Vignette (Estimated 2 Days for completion)

Day 1

Introduce students to Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Discuss his work by

reading Hello! Fruit face by Claudia Stand. Pay close attention to the
questions and prompts that pop up in the book.
Have students point out the facial features that Arcimboldo uses
inanimate objects to represent. Discuss how and why this works.
In an art circle Create fruit faces using artificial fruit provided by Dr.
Mehr.
Introduce project. Show examples.
Coordinate a listing activity of the different types of fruit that resemble
human facial features. Refer back to Strands book if needed as
examples.
Have students plan their food faces by drawing in their sketchbook for
the rest of class.
Have examples of Arcimboldo and food (Digital or Tangible)
available for inspiration.

Recommended Books:
Hello, Fruit Face! Claudia Strand
Arcimboldo Thomas Dacosta
Kaufmann

Assessment
Student success looks like:

Day 2

Briefly look back over Strands book and recall discussions from the
last class.
Demonstrate how to draw with scissors. (Dr. Mehr suggested I have
squares of paper precut out as to conserve paper supply and make it
easier for the students. i.e. Squares for Oranges, Rectangles for
Bananas.)
Discuss how to conserve paper and imagine images on the paper
instead of drawing.
Distribute construction paper
Display food examples again for reference.
Have students work independently on faces using their sketchbook
drawings and food display as reference.
Students will arrange their food faces prior to gluing them down.
Once a teacher gives the okay the student can pick their background
color and paste down their faces.
The student will then fill out a Show me your healthy colors worksheet.
(If the students are finished with time to spare they will be encouraged
to collaborate together and create a bigger vegetable face)

Participation in discussion times.

Participation in the creating
process.
Completion of a preliminary
sketch of their food face in
sketchbook.
Completion of a food face that
measures with the guidelines put
forth by MyPlate.
Using scissors (not markers or
pencils) to draw their foods.
A balanced representation of the
foods that are in a healthy diet is
featured on the students food
person.
Using Show me your Rainbow of
Healthy colors worksheet students
will list their choices of foods and
compare their relation to the
guidelines put forth by MyPlate.

List!or!draw!the!foods!that!make!up!your!food!!
person!in!the!right!portion!of!the!plate.!
!
Do!you!have!a!wide!variety!of!colors?!
!
What!food(s)!could!you!add!to!make!your!food!person!!
the!healthiest!that!he/she!can!be?!
!
!
Write!or!draw!what!activity!your!person!could!do!!
because!they!are!so!healthy.!

!
!
!
!
!
!
!

On this worksheet the students

will also be asked to write or
draw what activities their food
person could do because of their
healthy diet.

List!or!draw!the!foods!that!make!up!your!food!!
person!in!the!right!portion!of!the!plate.!
!
Do!you!have!a!wide!variety!of!colors?!
!
What!food(s)!could!you!add!to!make!your!food!person!!
the!healthiest!that!he/she!can!be?!
!
!
Write!or!draw!what!activity!your!person!could!do!!
because!they!are!so!healthy.!

Food Face

Exemplar:

Food Face