Castle

Students design a castle fit for a King and Queen while exploring the elements of art for line and texture. This project covers Common Core Standards for Language Arts and Math for grades 4-6 which can be found at the end of the lesson.

Grade Level

4th, 5th, 6th – The examples in this lesson are by 4th graders.

Objective  

In this Castle art lesson, students will create a castle using the elements of line and texture.

Time 

3 – 60 min lessons

Materials 

• Purchased Lesson plan Click Here
• Pencils
• Rulers
• 12×18 Watercolor paper – Canson XL Series Watercolor Textured Paper Pad for Paint, Pencil, Ink, Charcoal, Pastel, and Acrylic, Fold Over, 140 Pound, 12 x 18 Inch, 30 Sheets
• Brushes – Acrylic Paint Brush Set, 1 Packs / 10 pcs Nylon Hair Brushes for All Purpose Oil Watercolor Painting Artist Professional Kits
• Liquid Water Colors – Sargent Art 22-6010 10-Count 8-Ounce Watercolor Magic Set
  • Or this mini version for homeschooling – Sargent Art 22-6210 10-Count 4-Ounce Watercolor Magic
• Kleenex for blotting paint
• Sharpie Marker – Sharpie Permanent Marker, Fine Point, Black, Pack of 5

Inspiration/Artist 

Castles

This Castle lesson plan from Deep Space Sparkle can be purchased on this link: Click Here

Instruction with Questions

Days 1-4

Use the provided lesson plan from Deep Space Sparkle to create this lesson.  This Castles art lesson is a perfect compliment for a unit on architecture or to connect with fairy tale stories. This is also a great “arts integrated” lesson for Common Core Math. It is amazing how important it is for students to learn how to trace. Your students will use the arts elements of line and texture in this lesson.  I highly recommend using the liquid watercolor for this project, because the colors are so vibrant!

Common Core Standards

4th-6th Grades – Language Arts

Children’s adventure stories, folktales, legends, fables, fantasy, realistic fiction, and myth Includes staged dialogue and brief familiar scenes. Includes nursery rhymes and the sub-genres of the narrative poem, limerick, and free verse poem Includes biographies and autobiographies.

4th Grade – Math

Measurement and Data

Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit.

3. Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real-world and mathematical problems.

Geometry

3. Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.Recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure as a line across the figure such that the figure can be folded
along the line into matching parts. Identify line-symmetric figures and draw lines of symmetry.