Basic 3 · Creative Arts · Displaying and Sharing
Project: Planning the Final Display
In this topic you will plan a display of your project artworks and performances to share your creative experiences.
By the end of these notes you should be able to:
- Organise the project display
- Plan a short performance to open the display
- Invite an audience
What you already know
- Planning an "Art of Africa" display
Copy everything that has a blue line on its left into your notebook. The other parts are for reading.
- Strand
- Visual Arts& Performing
- Sub-strand
- Displaying and Sharing
- Indicator
- B3.2.3.4.1 – Plan for a display of own artworks to share creative experiences
Introduction
Your project is almost done. Now you will plan a final display and invite parents and other classes.
1. Display Checklist
| Task | Done? |
|---|---|
| artworks finished and labelled | |
| layout planned | |
| opening performance ready | |
| invitations sent | |
| guides chosen to explain the work |
2. Invitation
"You are invited to our 'Art of Africa' Project Display on Friday at 10 a.m. in Basic 3 classroom. Come and see art from Nigeria, Kenya, Mali and South Africa!"
New words
- checklist
- A list of tasks to tick.
- invitation
- A request for someone to come.
- guide
- A person who explains things to visitors.
- final
- Last.
Summary
- Use a checklist to prepare the display.
- Open with a short performance.
- Invite an audience and choose guides.
Class activity: Ready, Set, Display
- Tick the display checklist.
- Make invitation cards.
- Rehearse the opening performance.
You need: Learners’ own artworks, Label cards cut from manila paper, String, Clothes pegs
Exercises
Answer in your exercise book first, then check your answers.
1. A request for someone to come is an…
- A. Invitation
- B. Exhibition
- C. Instrument
- D. Introduction
Show answer
Answer: InvitationThat is an invitation.2. What does a guide do at a display?
- A. Explains the work to visitors
- B. Hides the art
- C. Sells tickets only
- D. Sleeps
Show answer
Answer: Explains the work to visitorsGuides help visitors.3. A checklist helps us prepare.
- A. True
- B. False
Show answer
Answer: TrueWe tick tasks.4. Invitations should not say the time.
- A. True
- B. False
Show answer
Answer: FalseThey need the date and time.5. A list of tasks to tick is a ______.
Show answer
Answer: checklistThat is a checklist.6. What should an invitation include?
Show answer
Answer: The event, date, time and place.These details help guests come.
Homework
- Give an invitation card to a family member.