Elements and Principles of Art

Texture

Aloe Plant

Space

Bookshelf

Line

No Parking Lines

Shape

Road Signs

Pattern/Repetition

Bicycle Rack 

Emphasis

Fire Hydrant

Introduction Footprint

In order to introduce ourselves to one another, we made a footprint that had different things that we are interested in and that are an important part of our life. In this project we outlined our own feet on construction paper and designed our on foot from there. One requirement was that we used three different media, marker, crayon, color pencil, magazine, and so on, when designing our foot. For example my foot print I first put my name and build my interest around it, hiking, white water rafting, video games, and LEGOs are something I put on my footprint to describe my interest. We then presented these in front of the class and explained what each item was and how it was related to us.

This activity could also spread out into different subjects. Taking the same concept, one could have students describe a historically person, for history, or a character from a book, language arts or reading. The project would be practically the same but instead of explaining their own interest they could explain certain facts about a person or character. For example, if a student was doing a footprint on Abraham Lincoln they could draw a log cabin or his famous top hat. They could then be displayed around the room for the students to learn from.

Footprint; Kallyn Jerde, 9/13/13