Reggie Laurent Collage Game
Ready to teach a Black History Month art project that’ll keep elementary art kids engaged? This Reggie Laurent art lesson will boost confidence and creativity. Kids will appreciate his abstract paintings of geometric and organic shapes. Moreover, they’ll enjoy playing a roll a dice game to make a collage project of their own!
And, it’ll help time-starved teachers like you create art lesson plans based on modern Black artists like Reggie Laurent.
During this art project, your class will learn the process that Reggie Laurent follows to create his non-objective paintings. Use it to discuss bright colors, cluttered space, and shapes in art. Kids will create a collage free-form shapes using the step-by-step guide and PowerPoint.
Plan lessons for students about Black art history and art appreciation in a way that excites them. Finally feel confident in your art curriculum and be organized and prepared to teach art!
What’s Included In My Collage Art Lesson
Can I be honest with you? Art history can sometimes be boring for kids. There, I said it. Teaching about artists and cultures doesn’t have to be a snoozer, though!
I’ve designed 3 different ways for students to attempt this Reggie Laurent art project. All will engage kids to create! Choose which way works best for your classes:
- Roll a dice game to add randomness to your student’s artwork
- “You Pick” idea worksheet for kids to choose their own elements
- Digital spinner wheels, so kids can randomly pick elements and you can integrate technology in the art room
- Printable dice template in case you have no dice
- Step-by-step picture directions to guide students through the art process
- Drawing practice worksheet, for kids who want to sketch out their ideas
- Reggie Laurent Artist biography about the life and work of this abstract painter, so you don’t need to research
- “Big Ideas” reflection worksheet where students write about their art process
- Self-assessment worksheet so kids can think about how they performed during the project
- Art grading rubric which assesses expectations, craftsmanship, work habits, creativity, and clean-up
- 8 “I CAN” Statements aligned to the Studio Habits of Mind to use during instruction or post on your bulletin board
- 4 Art exit tickets with quick, thought-provoking prompts
- Art history coloring pages to keep kids inspired by Reggie Laurent’s paintings outside of the art room
Ways to Use this Reggie Laurent Collage Project for Black History Month
This art project is flexible and can be used in many ways throughout your art room and beyond. It’s great for maternity or emergency art sub plans, early finisher activities, and even for virtual art class or an after-school art club.
You Will Receive
- 1 Non-Editable Printable PDF (Reggie Laurent Collage Project)
- 1 Non-Editable PowerPoint
- 5 Digital Spinner Videos (downloadable, and links to them on Google Slides and YouTube)
- Paperless Google Drive Digital Resource
Why You’ll Love It
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My classes were so engaged! These turned out absolutely beautiful. I appreciate the worksheet that outlined each shape in columns and gave them an opportunity to practice drawing the shapes first.
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My students loved getting to see the different types or art and explore creating abstract art. These were great to display with our Black History writing reports in the hallway.
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This is a well written lesson. It was fun for my face-to-face students and for my distance learners. I used this for all grades that I teach K-5. It was easy to follow along.
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Lovely art project for students to complete- they really enjoyed the game
We used this in class and on a virtual choice board due to weather making us have virtual days. It was super easy to add and they kids had so much fun. They learned a lot of new art and history in the process.
I always love the resources that are in these lessons!
I used this resource during summer school for a collage/printmaking enrichment class I was teaching in the afternoons. It was a life saver, and the students really enjoyed it!
We had an art fair and this resource made teaching a Reggie Laurent style doable for my kindergarten class. The students were each able to make their piece unique.