Lesson Plan: Holiday Open Itsy: Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Month

Central Focus Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Month

Grade Level Open itsy

Class Size Varies

Time & Place Illinois Art Station Open Itsy

TEACHER MATERIALS
GENERAL Making space for thanks
● Photograp Tallissa Abeyta Thankful for sacred spaces Thankful to rember the departed
hs of the
artwork
● Artwork
example
● Displays
for tables
● Student
materials Mexican Sugar Skull. “Day
of the Dead Folk Art - Sugar
Skulls.” Mexican Sugar
Skull,
https://mexicansugarskull.co
Native American houses. m/.
Native American Homes:
Wigwams, Longhouses,
Tepees, Lodges, and other
American Indian houses. (n.d.).
Retrieved November 3, 2022,
from http://www.native-
languages.org/houses.htm

Abeyta, T. (n.d.). Mixed media :

"Buffalo" (original art by Talissa
Abeyta ). Mixed Media : "Buffalo"
(Original art by Talissa Abeyta ).
Retrieved November 3, 2022, from
https://tabeyta.artspan.com/large-
multi-view/Talissa-Abeyta-Fine-
Art-/3423981-7-263393/Mixed-
Media/buffalo.html

PARTICIPANT MATERIALS
GENERAL Making space for thanks Thankful for my Home Thankful to remember the departed
● General 1. Tempra Paint 1. Card board 1. Model magic
supplies 2. Paint brushes 2. Paper bags 2. Pipe cleaners
all 3. Leaves 3. String 3. Markers
students 4. Buckets 4. Fabric
will need 5. Markers 5. Glue
or may 6. Tape 6. Glue brushes
possibly 7. Paper 7. Beads
 need to 8. Water cups 8. Leaves
complete 9. Pre print out of blank ledger 9. Sticks
the paper 10. Markers
project 10. Newspapers 11. Pencils
and/or
early
finisher,
advanced
work

Projects and Procedures

Project 1. Example and 1. Collect leaves or choose
procedures leaves to place on paper
2. Tape leaves onto the
paper
3. Paint ontop of the leaves
so the shape of the leaf is
white and the paper is the
color
4. Draw or write the things
you are thankful for within
the leaf shape

Project 2 example and 1. Choose a piece of cardboard to make your sacred space
procedures 2. Wrap cardboard in fabric and glue down
3. Decorate the fabric with additional materials

Project 3 example and 1. Roll clay into a ball

procedures 2. Indent two holes for the eyes
3. Create two indents for the nose
4. Decorate the rest of skull with symbols or colors that remind you of the departed

Key Critical Questions Project 1

1. Why are the symbols you are choosing important to you?
2. How do your symbols and words relate to the artwork?
3. What are you thankful for?
Project 2
4.
 SPECIAL PRE-INSTRUCTION PREPARATIONS
If we have aids or co-instructors, please be sure to have this filled out in detail with numbered or bullet point steps for an aid/co-instructor to
perform/complete steps ahead of time

ACCOMMODATIONS FOR SPECIFIC DIVERSE LEARNERS

Adaptations and Accommodations

For artists who are too young to write, drawing and markingmaking will be focused on rather than actual writing for the ledger project

Enrichment and Extensions

Activity for Early Finishers