Feeling Lines
ReNEW Schaumburg & Sci-Tech
Elementary and Middle Autistic Support
Ms. Mia & Mr. Rodgers & Ms. Richardson & Ms. Sullivan w/ AWESOME Support Staff
For this exploration of feelings, color, and line, we pulled from KID smART’s WITH FEELING curriculum (a free resource at www.kidsmart.org). Adapting the Vocabulary Burst lesson for Emotion Lines we worked with the idea that “A line is a basic element of art, referring to a continuous mark, made on a surface, by a moving point. Lines can express different feelings. Smooth, curvy lines might show comfortable emotions, and jaggedy zig-zags might show uncomfortable ones.”
We practiced creating lines with our whiteboards and sharing if our lines felt comfortable and uncomfortable. Students then chose 2 colors to represent their different feelings and we used oil pastels to create comfortable and uncomfortable lines. Listening to different music and looking at visuals encouraged us to create even more lines on our paper. Using watercolors, we painted around and over our lines and watched as the oil pastels resisted/repelled the paint and made our Feeling Lines pop even more! We finished up with a sharing of our work, a gallery work, and a conversation about what we noticed. Many students observed that some of us chose the same colors for different feelings and that each piece was unique- JUST LIKE US!
