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Create original art that expresses ideas about oneself.

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Use visual arts to illustrate how people express themselves differently.

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Classify foods by groups in MyPlate .

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Use basic strategies and concepts for working cooperatively in group settings.

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Locate familiar objects in the environment.

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Compare weather patterns that occur from season to season.

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-self-expression
-diversity
-weather
-seasons
-nature
-teamwork
-lines
-charts
-sorting

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-Will everyone's self portrait look the same? Why or why not?
-What will help us as a group to complete this challenge?
-What else did you see on our nature walk that you thought was interesting?
-What are some different fruits, vegetables, produce, etc that you enjoy?
-What would happen if we didn't eat food from all of the food groups?

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Watercolors can be used to add a colorful background in to a self portrait done in black marker. The self portraits will all look different and the watercolors will allow for creativity and self-expression through color.

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Paper is the base for many art projects. Starting with a blank piece of paper and a little creativity can lead to endless possibilities for kids!

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Something as simple as a black marker can make a bold piece of artwork when drawn onto a colorful background of watercolors.

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Hula Hoops can be used for many interactive games between kids. They are great tools to use as the basis for a team building game to encourage and foster communication and working together to complete a common goal.

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Q-tips are a fun way to paint! A common household item that kids see everyday can be so fun to use as a paintbrush to add in an unexpected material and increase the diversity in your materials!

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Kids love to paint there's no doubt about it, and when given a process based painting project kids will be able to use an array of colors to express themselves!

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Crayons are such a simple classroom material but can be used in so many ways. Take the wrapper off and kids can use the side of the crayon to make leaf impression and look at their leaves after a nature walk!

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After going on a nature walk kids can collect leaves that they find beautiful, the fun of it being everyone will find beauty in something different! Compare leaves and then use crayons to make leaf impressions!

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Use a white sheet to make an interactive chart on the floor where kids can sort and categorize different items. This brings in an interactive part to what otherwise would have just been a worksheet!

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Use colored tape to make charts on a sheet so kids can sort different items. Make the chart with them and help them explore how to make different charts creating lines with the tape.

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This activity involves creating a watercolor background and then adding in a black and white self portrait on top of the background. This nurtures creativity by allowing kids a chance to express themselves through colors and by being able to create an image of themselves and their own beauty and uniqueness.

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This game involves standing in a circle holding hands and stepping through a hula hoop in order to pass it around the circle. It nurtures creativity by creating an environment for kids to be able to work together and communicate in order to find a solution to solve a common goal.

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This is just one of many examples of a nature scavenger hunt. This activity allows kids to explore the environment around them and take notice of where they are in the world and what they see, feel and hear around them everyday that they may not always slow down to notice.

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This activity promotes learning about the seasons and the changing of leaves on trees during each season. Kids could make four different trees and represent what they looked like during each season. Creativity is fostered in multiple ways here. The use of a q-tip as an unexpected paintbrush material and having a process oriented art so that not everyones will look the same by the end.

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This activity involves gathering leaves and rubbing them onto paper with a crayon. It nurtures creativity because while kids are looking for leaves they will find ones they think are interesting or beautiful and that will look like something different to everyone. Kids can also use different colors of crayons and have different sizes and shapes of leaves as to explore the many aspects of nature.

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This lesson involves creating an interactive chart on the floor out of a sheet and colored tape where kids can categorize food as they would on the Myplate food groups chart. It promotes creativity because kids have a chance to explore creating and designing a chart and then interacting with it based on things that they eat everyday so it is personal to them!