Lesson: Create Your Own Samurai Daily Life Identity:

Kimono and Samurai Vest


Objectives: Students will design two kimono, one for a young girl and one for a young boy. Design a vest with pants for a samurai.

Grades: Elementary School (4-5), Middle School (6-8)


Duration: 30 minutes

Standards:

California: HSS 7.5.3: Describe the values, social customs, and traditions prescribed by the lord-vassal system consisting of shogun, daimyo, and samurai and the lasting influence of the warrior code in the twentieth century.
VPA/VA 4.1.5: Describe and analyze the elements of art (e.g., color, shape/form, line, texture, space, value), emphasizing form, as they are used in works of art and found in the environment.

VPA/VA 5.2.7: Communicate values, opinions, or personal insights through an original work of art.

VPA/VA 5.4.2: Compare the different purposes of a specific culture for creating art.
VPA/VA 5.5.3: Research and report on what various types of artists (e.g., architects, designers, graphic artists, animators) produce and how their works play a role in our everyday environment.


Materials:
Artwork
Military Camp Jacket

Worksheets

Kimono Template
Samurai Vest Template

Procedure for Kimino:

·  Explain that a kimono is the traditional garment of Japan.

o  It is a long robe that wraps left over right around the body. Both men and women wear kimono. The color, pattern, and sleeve length differ for men and women, and for age. A young girl would wear a kimono with bright colors, bold patterns and long sleeves that hang down, while her mother would wear a kimono with muted colors, small patterns, and short sleeves. A samurai would have worn a dark, striped kimono with short sleeves. Over the kimono he might also wear a broad shouldered vest and pants.

·  Copy the kimono template onto white paper.

·  Decorate your kimono.

·  Cut out your kimono.

·  Fold each garment over a popsicle stick and glue the sides together.

·  Cut out the hair.

Procedure for Samurai Vest:

·  Copy the samurai vest template onto white paper.

·  Decorate your collar and vest template.

·  Wrap the collar over each side of the craft stick (shoulder) and glue in place.

·  Fold the vest, cut out the neck hole, and insert the craft stick with the collar through the vest.

·  Glue in place.

·  Cut out paper with top-knot and apply to the top of the craft stick (head).

·  Fold the two front sections over and position the points to the sides of the face. Glue.

·  Wrap the top-knot with thread and tie a knot.
Draw eyes, mouth, and nose to complete.