These owls were so fun to draw. We drew them with colored Sharpie. The one drawing rule was to not lift their pen off the paper the whole time they were drawing. Most students really found this challenging. They process creates lots of smaller, interesting shapes that they never would have drawn lifting their pen. […]
A workshop on Mexican art wouldn’t be complete without a lesson on the Aztecs. We began by reading The Sad Night by Sally Schoffer Matthews. This is a longer story than I normally read in class. It gives a brief history of the Aztec civilization and then tells of their encounters and subsequent battles with […]
These sweet elephants were worth the wait. We started these last week after reading Elmer. After their drawing was complete, students filled in their elephant with a pattern of their choice. I love some of the original designs they came up with! They added color with markers, cut them out and glued them on black paper. […]
The older class completed their symmetrical insects this week. I missed getting pictures of several of them. : ( They all turned out great. Most kids in this age group really love details. This project gave them lots of opportunity to draw details! They came up with some very good looking specimens.
The older classes are doing a more complicated version of symmetrical insects. They chose an insect or parts of an insect from a worksheet. They then drew half of the bug on one side of their paper. I had pre-measured and marked the center of their paper. After one side was drawn, they traced their […]
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