Picasso Poyect: Teacher’s notes

1st sesión: Introduction

- What is an artist?--> brainstorming

- Show kids the Pictures slide presentation and they have to fill the activities about the

different pictures, highlighting the importance of what a pictures makes us feel, and that each

person can feel a different thing in front of a different picture.

2nd & 3rd sessions: Blue and Rose Periods

- Picasso PPT: show kids the presentation and tell them about Picasso’s life.

- Focusing in the blue and rose periods, make them think about how colours can make us see

the same picture different.

- Blue and rose periods activities (they have to colour the same picture using clod or warm

colours, to see how colours make the difference)

4th & 5th sessions: Picasso’s Portraits

- Talk to children about Impresionism and how Picasso drew people imagining he was looking

at them from the front and from one side at the same time.

- Visit www.picasohead.com and make different faces (computer’s room, kids can make faces

on their own)

- Cut form magazines different parts of faces and classify them: mouths, noses, eyes, ears,

etc…

- Make your our Picasso Portrait: Kids stick one of the previous cut-outs (one part of one face),

and create a portrait.form it.

6th Session: introducing the Guernica

- Show kids the Guernica PPT or the book

- Draw their favourite part of the Guernica

7th-10th sessions: Peace mural

- We are going to create a big mural about peace. In construction paper, each kid make a very

big picture. They paint the background and finally we put everything together in a big mural.