Lesson Plan: The Art of Doing Your Nails

Manjeet Mahal
MAED 314A
September 12, 2007

Lesson Plan: The Art of Doing Your Nails

Teaching Objectives:

• Allow students to participate in the activity while the teacher is doing the demonstration. By having the students participate in the activity while the teacher is demonstrating, the students are using auditory, visual, and kinetic learning methods.

• To introduce students to the different tools needed to do a manicure.

• To teach students the method for doing a manicure.

Learning Objectives:

• Students will be able to state what tools are needed when doing a manicure and what the uses for each of these tools are.

• Students will know the procedure needed to do a manicure on either themselves or someone else.

Materials Needed:

• Nail-cutter: to cut nails and cuticles

• Cuticle pusher: pushes cuticles back and clean up nails

• File: To file nails

• Buffer: To smooth out the nails and shine them up

• Base coat: Acts as primer

• Nail Polish: To give the nails a nice color

• Top coat: To protect the nail polish from chipping and it finishes off the look

Bridge: (1 Minute)

• Ask students “Who has ever had a manicure?”

Pre-test: (1-2 Minutes)

• Ask students “What tools do you think you need to do a proper manicure?”

• Ask students “What do you think is the procedure to do a manicure?”

Participatory Activities: (4 Minutes)

• The teacher will demonstrate to the students step by step how to do a manicure and the students will follow the teacher along through the procedure.

• First the teacher will introduce the tools. Then tell students that the first step would be to soak their hands in warm water so that the cuticles and nails become soft. Students should then push back their cuticles and cut them. The students will then file their nails to make them either square or round. Students then buff their nails so that they become smooth. Next students will put on a base coat, followed by two coats of the nail polish. Once the nail polish is close to dried a top coat is put on the nails to protect the manicure and finish off the look.

Post-test: (2 Minutes)

• Ask students to verbally go through the procedure for doing a manicure. Do this by getting each student to say a step in the procedure and the tool needed to do that step.

Summary/Conclusion: (1 Minute)

• Tell students that it is useful to know how to do a manicure because it is a lot cheaper to do it yourself than to get a professional manicure all the time.

• Doing a manicure is basically an art; therefore, it is very satisfying when you are all done and you have beautiful nails that people can not stop staring at.