Colorful Caring Cummerbunds

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Why?

How does caring feel? What does it look like? Wear your caring feelings on a colorful cummerbund or sash!

Steps

  1. 1. Talk about feelings of caring. Who and what do you care for? How do you show your feelings? View Kokoshka's Girl With Doll and Renoir's Woman With Cat or Madame Monet With Her Son. How do these artists show caring in their paintings? Talk about how the colors, expressions, and figures show caring.
  2. 2. Use Crayola® Erasable Colored Pencils to outline a person on paper. What behaviors and attitudes make a person caring? Brainstorm ideas and write words on and around your person. Draw symbols that remind you of the idea of caring, such as hearts, doodles, and sketches of things and people you care about. Choose colors that you think are caring colors.
  3. 3. Plan a design for a cummerbund or sash on paper using ideas from your brainstorm. The colored pencils easily erase if you change your mind! With Crayola Scissors, cut a wide piece of cotton or 50/50 cotton/polyester fabric to fit around your waist.
  4. 4. Cover your art surface with paper. Wear a painting shirt. With Crayola Fabric Markers, create symbols of caring. Draw yourself and others caring for treasured objects, pets, and people. Write words. Fill your cummerbund with the colors of caring! Air-dry the fabric before wearing it.

adaptations

Wear your sashes on a "Courage to Care" day. Read books about courage, caring, and compassion, working together to define each concept. Write stories about heroes and heroines who champion these concepts in brave original tales or biographies.

Teachers may wish to preview the works of Renoir and Kokoschka to select the most appropriate treatment of subjects for students.

Provide students with special needs alternative means to communicate ideas as necessary. Computer applications or other assistive systems may enable students to produce designs that can be recreated on fabric by an assistant.

Assessment: Ask children to explain the meaning behind their drawings. Note how accurately the symbols they chose represent caring feelings.

benefits

Children discuss feelings and expressions of caring.

Children view and discuss artistic expressions of caring.

Children plan and create their own wearable representation of the action of caring.

grades

Grades 1 to 3
Grades 4 to 6

subjects

Language Arts
Social Studies
Visual Arts

time

Multiple Sessions

curriculum standards links

US: Research U.S. Standards
UK: Research UK Standards
Canada: Research Canada Standards

safety guidelines

Costumes & Masks— CAUTION: When children wear hand-crafted costumes and masks, make sure the crafts do not obstruct the child’s vision, hearing, or impede movement. Do not use feathers, fabric, or raffia on wearable costumes and masks because these items do not pass costume flammability tests. Wearable masks are those held in place on the face with elastic, yarn, or other materials. Keep away from open flames.

Scissors—ATTENTION: The cutting edges of scissors are sharp and care should be taken whenever cutting or handling. Blunt-tip scissors should be used only by children 4 years and older. Pointed-tip scissors should be used only by children 6 years and older.

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