How to Teach Kids to Make Landscapes
I sat down to write this post on how to teach kids to make landscapes for TAB teachers as it is one of the only activities in my TAB-choice based classroom that is actually a requirement. I want the children to be able to the skills in creating a landscape so that they can go back to it any time they want to make one and it is a requirement for the year.
As I started putting it together I realized that in the past number of years I had created a number of other posts on creating landscapes with kids.
Here are these5 other landscape posts you can check out.
City Landscape art/Tissue paper background landscapes/Mixed Media landscapes/City landscapes at night/Landscapes teaching foreground and background
Below is a poster I created for the children to be able to refer back to when creating a landscape.
Honestly speaking I didn't really use it much as the younger kids can't follow it that well, but I hope to try it with older kids next year to see if it works.
I always have images to show when teaching how to make landscapes.
The one below uses the white board they are on to help them see the parts of the landscape.
There are a few basic ideas I like to get through to children when creating landscapes and the older they get the more they refine it.
- There is no white empty space in a landscapes. Most children start creating landscapes by coloring a strip of green on the bottom and blue on top. I show them lots of pictures for them to see how objects are always against a sky or other part of the background
- Horizon line. Where sky meets land or sea
- Objects that are on the horizon line are very far away and they need to be tiny
- The closer to the bottom of the page objects are the closer to us they are and them ore they move up the page the further away they are.
- Things closer to us are usually larger
- When you overlap then the object in front is closer to us
- The parts of a landscaper are background, middle ground and foreground.
Below are some landscapes that were done this year (2017-2018) from different grades, but please check out the links I added above for more ideas for landscapes. Any questions just ask below.
Below are some torn paper landscapes imitating the style of an artist named Ted Harrison
