Principal of Art Lesson Plan

Elizabeth Manz
Grade: Third Time Needed: 20-30 min

Topic: Proportion

Standard: 5.3.2.3.1. Create visual representations of places or systems that are part of
everyday life using artistic foundations.

Objective: Students will create a snowman that exhibits good proportion.

Materials Needed:
- Paper
- Watercolor Paint (Must blue, any other colors as well)
- Black Crayons
- Paint brushes
- A cup (used to trace a circle)

Activity:
1. Introduce the project to the students. Show the example. Explain that we are going to
be painting a snowman to look proportionally right, meaning that the size of each
object makes sense.
2. Have children start by making their hand flat, like they are going to give a high five.
Then have them put their pinky at the top of the page and make a mark (with the
crayon) where their thumb ends.
3. Based off the mark they just made, have them trace a circle right under it. This will be
the snowman’s head. All the drawing will be done with a black crayon.
4. Then, at the bottom of the paper, have students make their hand as big as they can,
with their palm on the bottom edge of the paper. Trace a half circle/upside down U
around their hand. It must be larger than the head.
5. Create the middle of the snow man by using two curved lines from the head to the
base, one line on each side. Remind students we want our snowman to look real.
6. Students will draw a hat that fits on the snowman’s head next.
7. Still Using a crayon, they will draw features, like buttons, eyes, nose, and mouth, that
fit the size of the body they made. We want it to look like a snowman we just built
outside.
8. Have students paint the edges of the snowman with blue paint. The background, hat,
and accessories can be any color they choose.

Assessment:
This assessment will be based off each students finished piece. If their snowman looks
proportional (the size of the objects makes sense/ looks real), they did a great job. If their
snowman body looks proportional but the features aren’t, or vice versa, they are getting
there. And if their snowman is unrealistic, they did not meet the objective.
Inspiration from https://www.deepspacesparkle.com/teaching-proportion-snowman/

Example of what Step 4 looks like.

Example of the finished work