The brochure was made by 5 schools from Latvia, Lithuania, Turkey, Poland and Portugal in the framework of Erasmus+ project "Arts for Life: developing life skills through the art.", No. 2018-1-LV01-KA229-046988_1.

1. Drawing, painting and crafts
Drawing, painting and crafts

2. Content
Latvia
1. Get to know the graphical image processing app and its benefits
….....................................................................................................................page 4
2. Integrated lesson (native language & Drawing)...................................page 14
Poland
3. Art Graphic (workshops) …………….....………........................................page 20
4. The Dot……………………………………………………………….........................…page 28
Turkey
5. Introduction to new words with the integration of the
Visual Art…...................................................................................................page 32
Lithuania
6. Circles of friendship.............................................................................page 40
7. Our feelings and emotions………………………..........................……...…page 46
Portugal
8 . Wall painting..........................................................................................page 54

3. Lesson plan: Get to know the graphical
image processing app and its benefits
Teacher name: Raivis Jansons
Grade: 5
Subject: ICT
Topic
Learn to use a drawing program
(Paint) using the visual art method
Content/Title
Copy simplified piece
of art by
Džemma Skulme, try to
emulate it using Virtual
Tools offered by the
program
Goals
By trying to imitate the piece
of art, the student will be able
to use as many opportunities
as possible offered by the
program

4. Objectives
To develop
interest about art
Materials
PC, projector, internet

5. Introduction:
To introduce students to the
program “Paint” and to tell about
the work to be done in the
lesson.
Development
To find a simple artwork by
Džemma Skulme step by step in
the internet, paste it on the
Program work sheet. Try to
imitate the art work step by step
with the variety of program tools

6. Practice
The student in the Internet
search engine writes the key
phrase "Džemma Skulme" on the
computer, selects the section
images, finds a work that suits
him, pastes it into the "Paint"
work page. The student begins to
make a sketch with a pencil or a
felt-tip pen, gradually developing
it into a piece of art. Work is done
by using as many different tools
as possible.
Checking for understanding:
Ask the student if they have any
questions/what they do not
understand.
Encourage students to actively use
as many tools as possible in the
program, to share a positive
Feedback

7. Closure
Each pupil shows
his/her work and tells
about the difficulties, if
any occurred. The
teacher gives a
comment and shows the
possible solution of the
problem. The work is
saved in the work folder
of each pupil on the
computer.

8. Lesson Plan: Adjective
Teacher's Name: Iveta
Pucena
Class: 9
subject: native language
Topic:
Usage of adjective
Content/Title
Yarn, its properties.
Goals
Defines the word belonging to
the word class according to their
grammatical characteristics.
Tasks
Learning
to recognize adjectives in different
word connections
Learning to recognize adjectives in a sentence
Materials: Presentation, Video
material, Worksheets

9. Introduction:
The teacher introduces the
students with tasks:
1) what is an adjective
2) Identify adjectives in the text.
Development:
Tasks:
Reading the text, underlining of
adjectives.
Wool products (socks, scarves,
gloves), their properties.
Wool sweater design
Practice:
Pupils read the text:
How do we get yarn?
What are yarn products?
How to dye yarn?
Students underline the adjectives with wavy
lines.
Task: Every color should look for a noun (
brown socks, brown gloves, purple grapes)
The teacher gives each pupil a piece of wool
- socks, scarf or gloves. Pupils should name
3 characteristics of these products.
Task: "Be a designer!"
Each pupil draws his sweater and thinks
where the sweaters will be used - for the
celebration, hike, excursion, everyday, etc.
Each pupil writes on the leaflet 3 words of
the characteristics of a sweater ( for ex.-
warm, colorful, thick).

10. Checking For
Understanding
The check of knowledge takes
place during the lesson
(reading the text, naming the
adjectives).
Closure
At the end of the lesson, the teacher
discusses with the students what they
did in the lesson. Each student writes his
name on the board, a mark for himself.
The teacher analyzes the work of each
pupil, evaluates his / her cooperation
skills, asks students' opinions about the
creative work

11. Lesson plan: Art Graphic
(workshops)
Grade: 6
Subject: Visual Art
Teacher: Ewa Nowakowska
Techniques: graphics,
gravure printing, dry needle
Aims:
student learns graphics as one of the
fields of traditional visual arts,
- gets to know in practice the
specifics of graphics and gravure
printing,
- gets to know the features of
gravure printing, technical
possibilities and limitations (matrix,
print, printing press),
- uses a line as a means of artistic
expression (contour, invoice, defining
the space)
- learns creative solving of artistic
problems, development of
imagination and plastic
thinking,
- performs graphic work in printing
technique,
- takes care of the aesthetics of the
work being done.

12. The lesson:
After familiarizing with the graphic
design studio, students were able to
design plastic compositions on any
topic on sheets similar in size to
graphic tiles. In the design work
appeared: landscapes, flowers,
animals and symbolic compositions.
The lecturers then distributed the
tiles and tools and discussed the
method of making the matrix in
detail.
After the tiles were developed, the
students applied paint on them,
choosing the colour according to their
own preferences. Then they rub the
tiles so that the paint remains only in
the grooves. They put paper on the
prepared dies and place it in the
printing press. By sliding between the
two press rollers, the paint from the
grooves was pressed onto the paper.
The result was a print. The students
made two graphics.

15. Lesson plan: The Dot
Grade: 6-7
Subject: Visual art
Materials: presentation, video,
sheets of paper, colourful
markers
Aim: boost creativity, help think
outside the box
Method: drawing, discussion
Techniques: individual, groups,
pairs
Part 1
Teacher groups students into 4 persons
teams
They get piece of paper, one per team,
and colourful pencils and markers.
The command is: made a dot. One dot.
Just dot.
Once they do it ( one dot per student
on each piece of paper) the teacher
says: now, make your dot into a picture.
Whatever you like, you decide, you
work as a team. Make a dot and see
where it takes you.
Students work for 10 minutes.
Then the task is: give your picture a
title.
The teacher makes a exhibition, puts
the pictures up on the wall. Students
watch, compare, tell about their
pictures.

16. Part 2
Teacher plays a video on
YouTube
https://youtu.be/6xU_5zEfWQU
English version for higher level
students. But it is illustrated
story so it is really easy to follow
by the weaker at language ones.
They talk about the movie. What
happened in the story? What
change did the dot make in
Vasti's life?
What is the dot? Students give
their ideas.
Have you ever experienced a
"dot" in your life? What was it?
Tell about it.
Part3 (optional)
Teacher tells the students to find
how people in the works
celebrate the International Dot
Day - to honour teachers who
believe in their students' abilities
and to boost creativity.

17. Lesson Plan: Introduction
to new words with
the integration of the Visual
Arts
Teacher Name : Seval
Gegez
Grade : 5th grade
Subject: English language
Topic:
Learning the new
words using visual
arts
Content:
Focusing on vocabulary
by using shapes,
numbers, symbols
Goals:
To teach Letters, numbers, colors, such
as to view concepts from different
angles.
To teach s planned movement,
comprehends the importance of
planned movement,
To improve the ability to think correctly
and quickly and make decisions,
To make realize the students to know
themselves and their abilities better,
To give the habit of focusing on a
specific subject,
To improve the sense of curiosity

18. Objectives:
-To encourage the students to
learn the new words in English
-To focus on lots of subject at
the same time
-To create their own word
picture
-To establish a relationship
between concepts
-To teach vocabulary through
the visual arts with the help of
the imagination
Materials:
Papers, crayons and a little
imagination
Introduction:
It is a fun and enjoyable
game based on finding the
word or phrase hidden by
the color, posture or
position of the letters,
shapes or pictures. These
include visuals of objects,
any shapes or symbols,
Roman numerals, valence of
elements, musical notes and
so on.

19. Practice:
This activity can be repeated
several times
so that as many children as
possible
participate. Also Students can
go on it at home.
Checking for
understanding:
Ask students if they have
any questions or
dont understand what is
required,
encourage them with
positive feedback.
Development:
Teacher just gives examples of
the game that all channels
suitable for the child's age can
be used. Some of those;
Letters and numbers available,
Images can be reversed for
some words.
Parts of the human body can be
used
Math symbols are available.
Syllables can be created by
dividing the visuals.
The word Art can be obtained by
dividing the clock image into two
by writing the letter «N» in the
center.
Music related visuals can be
used also
We can use some computer
icons
And wait students creativity

20. Closure:
Give students the story of
the folk song to
preparation for a short
drama in the class.
Ask the children to listen
some folk songs and write
or draw their emotions on
a paper about the music
and the story of the song.

21. Lesson Plan
Circles of friendship
Teacher Name
Ina Stankeviciute
Grade 4
Subject
Visual art
Topic
Circles of friendship
Content
Circles of friendship
Goals
Development of creativity,
collaboration and cooperation
skills.
Objective
To improve pupils‘ skills to
work together.
To develop creativity by
combining various patterns
and colours
Materials
Pencils, paint sticks and
crayons,
Paper sheets (A4 and A3),
Scissors,
Tape
Circle tracers (a variety of size)

22. Introduction
Pupils are divided into the pairs.Ask
pupils what does it mean to work in a
group under one common Project. Is it
easy? What kind of conflicts could
appear? How could they be solved?
Development
Each pair gets a sheet of paper (A4).
Working in a pair the pupils choose
one color (pencil, marker or crayon).
Taking one pencil tohether: one by left
hand and another one by right hand,
they write down their names and
greeting for the others on the page.
Practice
Working in pairs the pupils fill the
pages (A3 – one page for one pair)
with the circles of the various size
by using tracers and pencils.They
choose one circle in the middle of
the page and desing it together.
After that they choose two circles
on the opposite parts of the page
and design them individually. Than
the page is fold and cut into two
parts. The cutted pages are mixed
and shared among the pupils.
They finish to desing all the circles
individually.

23. Checking for understanding
The pupils who work in one pair
try to find their initial pages and
join them by using a tape. The
pupils should discuss the
advantages and disadvantages
they face working together and
individually.
Closure
A display of the pictures.

24. Lesson plan
Our feelings and
emotions
Grade: 5
Topic
Our feelings and emotions
Content
The pupils improve their knowledge
and skills how to recognize emotions
and express them in a proper way.
During the lesson the pupils follow such
steps:
1. “My mood“
2. “Potrait on the floor“-
3. “Colours of the mood“
Goal
Identification of the emotions, self –
expression and creativity development

25. Objectives:
To improve pupils‘
knowledge of the
emotions.
To identify personal
emotions and feelings.
To express the emotions
through the drawing and
colouring.
Materials:
Pencils and
crayons,Chalk,Watercolor
or
gouache,Paintbrushes,Paper
sheets (A4),Silhoutte
stencils (silhoutte of a
person) (A5)Some
wallpaper,Scissors.
Introduction:
Ask the pupils to name the
emotions they know. Explain
that emotions are our
feelings. Tell them that there
is a large variety of them. The
feelings change from moment
to moment depending on
whats going on around us, at
home, or with our friends. Ask
the pupils to name the
emotions they feel today.

26. Development
Each pupil gets a sheet of
paper (A4). Drawing the
sun with the rays he has to
express his mood. That
can be done by using
various shapes and colours
of the rays.
Practice
The pupils are divided into
the pairs. Each pair has to
draw their portraits in actual
size. They get some wallpaper
(floor can also be used for this
task). In turn they lay down
and their friends make
outlines of them by chalk or
crayons. After that they colour
their real size sihouttes and
add a few personal details to
their “portraits“.

27. Checking for understanding
The pupils get the silhoutte
stencils. They draw and colour
the hearts expressing how they
are feeling now.
Closure
A display of the real size
portraits. The pupils try to
identify their friends and the
emotions of the portraits.

28. Lesson Plan
Wall paintings
Teacher Name
António Diogo
Grade 4
Subject
Paintings
Topic
Portuguese murals and
traditional games.
Content
Choosen by the students.
Goals
Paintings; knowledge of
traditional Portugese
games.
Objective
Knowledge of traditional
Portugese games;
knowledge of exterior
painting techniques.

29. Materials
painting supplies.
Introduction
Preparing the working
groups (10 students each)
Development
Choosing the painting by
group and the way of
working it.
Practice
Choose the painting and
perform it.
Checking for
Understanding
doubts.
Closure
Activity balance with
students.