This Halloween season I decided I wanted the 4th and 5th graders to create haunted houses. We explored what the word silhouette means when it comes to art and looked at several examples including paper cut designs. I also displayed several haunted house designs for them to study. We brainstormed what things reminded us of Halloween such as bats, pumpkins, skeletons, etc and started thinking of how to add those things into our picture. They were responsible in designing their own haunted house silhouette on top of a flat ground line or a hill. It's important to emphasize that the house will be COMPLETELY colored in with black oil pastel except for the windows before they get started. Most students really struggled with wanting to add extra details to the house including shingles, potted plants, or bricks. With a couple of reminders that only the outline will show, they eventually grasped the concept. I did say that adding things to the SIDE of their house was ok, such as a porch, stairs or even gravestones on the ground line. Once I checked out their individual designs, they got started with the black oil pastel. This part is definitely time consuming and oh-so messy, haha. Giving them a paper towel to rest their hand on while they color helps with the smearing. Once their spooky houses are filled in nice and dark, they get to use watercolors! First they fill in the windows and doors with yellow and then they got to choose 2-3 colors for a spooky night sky! The results are even better than I hoped!
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