Easter Egg Painting-My group's lesson-lesson #1

For my group’s peer taught lesson, we had painting as our topic. Everything turned out great and it was very fun to teach with two other people! Our lesson was titled Easter Egg Painting and was for Kindergarteners. We started off having the students go on an Easter Egg Hunt throughout the classroom to find one plastic egg each. After that, we each explained the elements of design and information on our PowerPoint. We explained to the students that they would each be painting three Easter eggs. Then, we demonstrated different lines, shapes, and patterns that they could use to create their eggs.

The students used a scratch piece of paper to practice eggs that have lines, shapes, and colors as well as patterns on them. When the students used their egg templates to cut out three eggs, they drew different lines, shapes, and patterns on them for their final designs before they painted their eggs. In each plastic egg that the students found during the egg hunt, there was a colored piece of paper in each. They had to use that color on each of their three eggs as well as other warm/cool colors. One egg had to be created using lines, one using shapes, and the other using color.

Finally at the end, the students used a notecard to write which color they had inside of their plastic egg and what other colors they used and why they chose them. We used the lettering “Have an egg-cellent Easter” on our bulletin board and put all of the student’s eggs on the board inside a big basket and around it!

An extension activity would be that students could use the Easter theme that we did with the painted eggs and egg hunt to write a story in Language Arts and tell about their Easter plans or experiences.