The lesson focuses on Tim Burton, and his imagination and creation of creatures. Students will then explore their own monster ideas, illustrate them on canvas board, and then bring them to life with the use of color theory when applying paint. Through this lesson the students will be able to express their creative minds through illustration and painting.
Children of all ages today are constantly beaten down with mind numbing technology and quickly becoming zombie like drones unable to use natural thought any more. BUT! this is where the arts need to interject and have a larger role in the development of students’ mind and creativity. As art teachers we are on the forefront of this battle. Let the children craft their own tales themselves, not merely just read one they have been given. Within this Unit Plan we will do just. With the use of storytelling as an enduring idea the class will go on a journey to find that creativity and use their imagination to become the story teller who thinks outside the proverbial box and not simply wait to be told what to stuff that box with.