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Symbols in Art: A Red Heart for Love

  • Kindergarten
  • Arts Education
  • 51 s
  • British Columbia
  • BCK-AR-10

A pen draws a heart and colours it red to show that a red heart can stand for love, and that this kind of picture is called a symbol. Then a yellow sun stands for happy and a rain cloud for sad, and a brush paints plain yellow and blue to show that just a colour can show a feeling too.

Concept: Symbols in art: a colour or a picture can stand for a feeling

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

Can a picture show a feeling?

Look, we draw the shape of a heart.

Transcript

What the lesson says

Can a picture show a feeling?

Look, we draw the shape of a heart.

Now we colour the heart bright red.

A red heart can stand for love.

A picture like this is called a symbol.

A yellow sun can stand for happy.

A grey rain cloud can stand for sad.

Just a colour can show a feeling too.

This bright yellow paint can look happy.

This blue paint can look sad.

Colours and pictures can be symbols for feelings.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Kindergarten

Arts Education, Arts in general: symbolism as expressions of meaningBCK-AR-10

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The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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