Corn Husk Dragonflies

Courtney Lastiyano
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Objective: Students will craft their own corn husk dragonflies after themed cultural Unit.
Standards:
Visual Arts, S.2 Envision and Critique to Reflect: Identify that art represents and tells the stories of
people, places, or things.
Visual Arts. S.2 Envision and Critique to Reflect: Create visual narratives (DOK 1-4)
Visual Arts. S.2 Envision and Critique to Reflect: Artists interpret connections to the stories told in
and by works of art
Materials
-Pack of Corn Husk
-Bowl of Water (soak husks over-night)
-Newspapers/Apronsclean up
----OPTIONAL----Food Coloring-Add it to the husks as they soak to dye them slightly
Paints, googly eyes. (again, completely optional)

Anticipatory Set: We will begin our lesson reading the book Dragonflys Tale and discussing why
the dragonfly is of importance to the people in correlation to the text.
After a short Q & A during our circle time, we will break into groups and listen up while directions
are given on how to make the actual corn husk dragonflies.
We will make the first dragonfly together, and then commence to make one more on our own.
If time allows, we will paint or further decorate our corn husk creations.

Instructional Process
-Group Discussion

-Teacher Lead Discussion/Demonstration

-Guided Practice
Closure: Once we are finished with our dragonflies we will hang them around the classroom and
talk about what they think the dragonfly represents.

Independent Practice:
-Draw a picture of your favorite part of the story, bring it back to class to be discussed during circle
time.