Fortune Cookies…. I don’t like them very much. Every time you order Cantonese food they throw in a handful of these bland mass produced after meal obligations. I don’t even want to consider them an extension of the noble line of desserts. I know I’m fairly alone in my anti-fortune cookie mentality, and that’s why I want to put my hostility towards the cookie aside to develop a lesson plan based on the printed fortune inside the cookie.
The idea was brought to my attention by Ms. Masterson at Hermitage High School while I was observing some art classes a few weeks ago. She was talking about upcoming project she was introducing to her higher level art classes and this one really stuck out to me. She gave each student a fortune cookie, and then with the fortune they pulled they must create a work of art based upon it. They have to have a strong narrative and illustrate the words used in the fortune as clearly as possible.
I loved the idea, and I will have to try it out for myself. The problem with the project is how open it is. The art 1 and 2 student needs a lot more guidance than the higher level students, I’m honestly not sure if I will have many opportunities to work with the art 3-5 students much during my student teaching. I’m not saying all the art 1 and 2 students are less apt, but they usually need to be taught the fundamentals of art, the principles, and the meaning of art before they can create meaningful representations of concepts and ideas.
If I find myself with lower level art classes, I just might try to sneak this in there for them at the end of my stay as a student teacher. No one likes drawing fruit bowls, cloth, and old instruments anyway. I think this will be a great way for the students to truly encapsulate imagery based on an abstract concept (some of those fortune cookies really don’t make any sense).
Interesting.... fortune cookies are Japanese.
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