Grades 3rd, 4th & 5th - Week 4 DUE 5/8

Due Date:  05/08/2020 - You will have one project due each week.

Send a picture of your finished art work to:

(407) 900-7195  (Saldarriaga)
OR
(863) 576-7707  (Simonsen)
Please send your final product to one phone number only.  Thank You.

Please include:
Student First and Last name

Grade

Homeroom Teacher

 Nature Mandalas 

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During this activity, you will explore more about the art principles UNITY & BALANCE. You will be using unity and balance to create a mandala. You can find a lot of mandalas exploring nature - spider webs, stars, many flowers like daisies & sunflowers, snowflakes, and tree rings. Be sure to look for Nature’s Art whenever you are outside.

Click Here For: Creating a Nature Mandala Video

Vocabulary: 

♼Unity: The quality of having all the parts of an artwork look as if they belong or work together.  

♼Balance: The arrangement of all parts of an artwork to create a sense of equality on all sides.  

• ♼Radial Balance: is any type of balance based on a circle with its design extending from a center point. A star, the iris around each pupil of your eyes, a wheel with spokes, and a daisy are examples of radial balance 

♼Mandala: A mandala is a circular structure with radial symmetry, meaning that the design radiates out symmetrically from the center. 

Supplies: None Needed - You will find your objects in nature. 

Directions: Nature Mandalas

🌲Step One: Go explore your yard or neighborhood (in safe places where you are allowed to go).

🌳Step Two: Collect natural things you can find in similar shape, color, and size.  

• What you can use: Leaves, sticks (you can break up), grass, acorns, rocks, vines, & pine cones you find on the ground  

• Ferns and flowers/flower petals  (ask permission before picking) 

• Having in groups of 4 or 8 will help with creating patterns.  
• Clumps of dirt and sand can be used too. 

🌴Step Three: Create your own Mandala. 

• Choose materials/objects that can be repeated (make sure you have enough to repeat your design at least 4 or 8 times 
• Look over the Outline of a Mandala to help organize your objects to create radial balance
• Start with one object in the middle and go outwards with your design.  

➤Remember your mandala should repeat to demonstrate unity and radial balance.  Double check if your objects all repeat correctly and have - similar size, shape, and color. And because it is nature, no two things are going to be EXACTLY the same. 

🌳Step Four: Take a photo or two of your Art and text it to one of the our phone numbers

Outline of a Mandala (provided by artisfun.com)

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Examples of Nature Mandalas