Design Your Own Flower With Shapes

  Design Your Own Flower With Shapes

Orson Welles famously said, “The enemy of art is the lack of limits.” This Flower Power lesson for 6-8 year olds will teach students how to use limits to unleash their creativity and craft visually appealing designs within a specific visual language. We’ll explore how Keynote can help students create designs following rules. We can also delve into design language and themes like colour, shape, form, literacy, and creativity. Finally, we’ll introduce Keynote’s shapes to let students design their own bugs or birds.   

A moving GIF showing shapes moving and funky flower design.

Learning Intentions

By the end of this session students will be able to: 

• Create your own form from a limited number of shapes 
• Design your own flower 
• Explore how different types of data can be represented in different ways

Success Criteria 

• All learners will create flowers using set shapes
• Most learners will create a flower changing and manipulating different shapes
• Some will creatively explore a multitude of shapes repeated to create a clear colourful design

Students should find that they are able to demonstrate how they can use shapes as a form of language and manipulate shapes to create new meaning.

Classroom Set-up 

It is a good idea to have some examples of different artworks and explore how these can be broken down into shapes. For this task I used the art work of artist Andria Beighton as inspiration, for instance: what shapes can make up the shape of a bird?

This task helps students to identify how pictures are made up of shapes; good art practice. This task can also be a good way of introducing debugging to your students as they have to consider how one form can be broken by other elements.  

Opportunity Development of Skills 

There are many skills on offer within this task such as: 

• Crafting 
• Critical Thinking
• Creativity 
• Developing Curiosity 
• Resilience Building 

Once the have grasped the concept of manipulating objects we can explore changing shapes and manipulating size and colour. There is an opportunity to go further and introduce other forms such as insects, plants and birds.

Process

Use the instructions and the picture gallery below to help you follow these easy steps. You are now on your way to developing art with shapes. 

Task steps:

• 🔍Explore how a picture can be broken down in shapes; (Use an Art-work with a 2D form this will help)
• 👊🏽Challenge making an art work of a flower out of limited shapes for example only Squares, Triangles, Circles ETC. You can use as many multiples, but stick to those forms only;
• 🔬Investigate changing size and colour of shapes in Keynote’s editor;
• 🎨Create an Artwork of a Bird, Flower or Insect with as many shapes and changes sizes (demonstrate how to short cut making the objects the same size)
• 🕹️Shift things up a gear and use different shapes in Keynote’s shape chooser;
• 🤹🏽‍♀️Create and design, keep it fun, play music;
• 🖼️Create a QR code using Apple Shortcuts to link a Freeform for students to share their Gallery of work; 
• 👩🏾‍🤝‍👨🏼👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏽Invite your favourite people to a gallery and see the amazing creativity on the wall or digital  classroom screen. 

As students become more familiar with How to manipulate shapes you can easily Introduce more complex shapes and get student to combine, group and break apart different shapes available in Keynote, You can also introduce shortcuts like marking shapes the same size by toughing and holding down the corner of the shape and then touching with your other finger the shape you want to size towards. 

Try other designs like your own impression of an artwork with shapes.

Attachments

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