This document outlines three visual arts experiences for different age groups aimed at helping students explore and express emotions. The experiences for preschool and foundation students involve collaborative painting and assembling facial features on stones in response to music and photos. For year 2 students, the experience involves sculpting emotions in clay and other materials and presenting them to classmates. The goal is for students to experiment with different media to represent feelings and ideas.

1. EXPLORING EMOTIONS
THROUGH VISUAL ARTS
EDUC 2054: ARTS EDUCATION, ASSIGNMENT 1: RESPONSIVE TASK 4
Hemambika
Srekrishnan
ID: 110134469

2. Context
Age group: Preschool
Time: 1x 40 minutes
Nature: Large group
experience
Links to curriculum areas:
Visual Arts and Music
EARLY YEARS LEARNING FRAMEWORK
OUTCOMES
• Use creative arts such as
drawing, painting, sculpture,
drama, dance, movement,
music and storytelling to
express ideas and make
meaning
• Experiment with ways of
expressing ideas and
meanings using a range of
media
The Experience
The goal of the experience is for the children to be able to express themselves
about how they feel about something through visual arts. The music will act as a
motivator and guide for children to express themselves. As a large group
experience, once the children listen to the music they can discuss how each of
them felt to collaborate and create a painting to the different parts of the music.
This will allow them to explore feelings to the respective elements such as,
colours, shapes, textures and patterns (Arts Live, 2016).
Resources
• Paint
• Large roll of
paper
• Paint brushes
• Long table
• Music player
• Music
Group Painting set-up for
the experience.
Sample music for painting.
(Zervas, G 2015)

3. Context
Age group: Year 2
Time: 2x 40 minutes
Nature: individual experience
Links to curriculum areas:
Visual Arts
The Experience
Following a discussion on emotions, students will be asked to choose an
emotion and think of a situation, person or place that evokes this emotion. With
the help of a wide range of open-ended resources, they can make a sculpture
that represents the emotion for them. Once they make the sculptures they can
present it to the class and share each others ideas. This experience allows
students to experiment with a range of resources to represent their thoughts
and communication ideas. While this experience allows students to be both
artists and audience, it also contributes to critical and creative thinking
capabilities (Arts Live 2016).
Resources
• Clay
• Sculpting tools
• Plaster of paris
• Moulds
• Wires
• Wood off-cuts
• Glue and glue guns
• Paint and Paint brushs
• PebblesClay Sculptures Wood Sculpture
ACARA Content Descriptions
Create and display artworks to
communicate ideas to
an audience (ACAVAM108)
Elaborations
Sharing ideas with their
classmates about the
representational choices they
made in their artwork
(Image Source: Redtedart, 2013) (Image Source: Artfulparent, 2015)

4. Context
Age group: Foundation
Time: 1x 40 minutes
Nature: group experience
Links to curriculum areas:
Visual Arts
ACARA Content Descriptions
Use and experiment with
different materials,
techniques, technologies and
processes to make
artworks (ACAVAM107)
The Experience
During the start of the lesson, the students will be shown various real-life photos
of emotions for observation. Specific instruction will be given to analyse specific
facial features. Students will then be encouraged to paint different eyes, nose
and mouth in the stones. Students will then be encouraged to place different
combinations of set of eyes, nose and mouth to discuss the kind of emotions
these features create and why they think so.
Resources
• Stones
• Acrylic paint
• Chart paper
• Textas
• Real-life photos of different
faces of emotions
Elaborations
Exploring a range of natural and
man-made materials and
technologies to visually express
their experiences.
Stones with features
Different faces with stones
(Image Source: Where Imagination
Grows, 2014)

5. REFERENCES
Arts Live, 2016, Keepsake, Arts Live, The Song Room, viewed 21 August 2016, <http://www.artslive.com.au/explore/visual-art-starters/keepsake>
Arts Live, 2016, Painting the Music, Arts Live, The Song Room, viewed 21 August 2016, <http://www.artslive.com.au/explore/visual-art-starters/painting-the-music>
Red Ted Art, 2013, Kids Get Arty: Joan Miro Sculptures, Red Ted Art, 18 September, viewed 21 August 2016, < http://www.redtedart.com/2013/09/18/joan-miro-for-
kids-projects/>.
The Artful Parent, 2015, Easy Wood Sculptures for kids, The Artful Parent, 15 June, viewed 21 August 2016, <http://artfulparent.com/2015/06/easy-wood-sculptures-
for-kids.html>.
Where Imagination Grows, 2014, Teach Emotional Intelligence with Build-a-Face Story Stones, Where Imagination Grows, 18 May, viewed 21 August
2016,<http://whereimaginationgrows.com/emotions-story-stones-for-kids/> .
Zervas, G 2015, Instrumental Guitar- Joyful Journey- Glen Zervas, video, You Tube, 26 May, viewed 21 August 2016,
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY6PCnmApR4>.