Keystone School Kindergarten Art Projects

Kindergarten Kave Drawings

The Kindergarteners use their imagination to travel to mid-20th century France.  They imagine that they go spelunking in the caves with their friends and stumble upon the primitive, yet awe inspiring cave paintings. Students pretend they are caveboys and cavegirls and draw cows and bulls, horses and donkeys, deer and coyotes...They also trace their hands color around it like the earliest artists did as a way of signing their work.

The Cave Painter of Lascaux

Take a Virtual Tour of the Caves of Lascaux in France

Documentary of Lascaux's Prehistoric Cave Paintings: Las​caux 2.0

Examples of Franz Kline's Action Painting

Examples of Keystone Kindergarteners' Kave Paintings

Grade Level - Kindergarten
Duration - One Class period
​Media Type - Drawing

Curriculum Integration
​Subject Integration: History
Content Standards:
VA.Cr1.1.1a - Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials.
​VA.Cr1.2.1a - Use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.
​VA.Cr2r.1.1a  Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design
​VA.Cr.2.2.1a - Demonstrate safe and proper procedures for using materials, tools, and equipment while making art.
​VA: Cr2.3.1a - Identify and classify uses of everyday objects through drawings, diagrams, sculptures or other visual means.
VA: Cr3.1.1a - Use art vocabulary to describe choices while creating art.
​VA:Re7.1.1a - Select and describe works of art that illustrate daily life experiences of one's self and others.
VA:Re7.2.1a - Compare images that represent the same subject
​VA:re8.1.1a - Interpret art by categorizing subject matter and identifying the characteristics of form.
​VA:Re9.1.1a - Classify artwork based on different reasons for preferences.
​VA:Pr4.1.1a - Explain why some objects, artifacts and artwork are valued over others.
​VA:Pr5.1.1a - Ask and answer questions such as where, when, why and how artwork should be prepared for presentation or preservations.
​VA: Pr6.1.1a - Identify the roles and responsibilities of people who work in and visit museums and other art venues.
​VA:Cn10.1.1a - Identify times, places and reasons by which students make art outside of school.
​VA: Cn11.1.1a Understand that people from different places and times have made art for a variety of reasons.

OBJECTIVE/ASSESSMENT
​OBJECTIVE:
​Students will:
​- learn about cave painting
​- look on a map of France to see where Lascaux is
​- talk about color and how the first artists made color
​- draw four legged animals
​- overlap animals
RUBRICS:
​Students will be graded by completion.
​MATERIALS & PROCEDURES
Brown butcher paper - 12x18 inch
​oil pastels
PROCEDURES:
​​Teacher lead discussion about cavemen. Where did they live? How did they tell stories? How did they draw?
​What materials did they use? How did they make color?
​Watch read aloud book youtube video.

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