Mini Hand Zentangles

Art level: Middle School
Materials required: white construction paper, pencil, crayons, colored pencils
Concepts taught: Line and exploring types of line design

Title of lesson: "Mini Hand Zentangles"
Objective:
To be able to identify different line variations.
To produce a zentangle using several line types.


Here's a fun lesson that I did with my 10-13 year olds when we learned about line! Most students don't realize how many different things they could do with line and how they could use line quality to enhance their projects.

First, I went over what a line is and gave them a hand out showing them all of the different kinds of lines that exist.

They had to finish this worksheet, which I found easier than having them just copy lines. They had to continue the visual which worked in their favor!

 Then, I had students trace their hands onto a piece of white construction paper. They were then instructed to divide their hands into sections using line.

 After learning about all of the different types of line, they then were allowed to fill in those sections with line designs. However, they weren't allowed to have 2 sections of the same design next to one another. Then they colored!

This student took it to the next level and did line design outside the hand! Zentangle artist in the making :)

I love all of the shapes and line design in this one!

This lesson was great. The students learned a lot about line and it really stuck with them. I kid you not, every lesson after that they would bring up how they could use line and wanted to refer back to their line worksheets. Having visuals always helps!