Lesson At A Glance

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5 Min – Blending and mixing oil pastels

10 Min – Color and blend with oil pastels

15 Min – Draw butterfly step-by-step

10 Min – Make patterns on wings

15 Min – Paint butterflies with warm colors

8 Min – Use white pastels to make stars

10 Min – Mix cool colors & paint sky

2 Min – Everyone helps

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Kneel down so that you are on their level. Bending over emphasizes the differences in your height, while kneeling makes them feel more important. Have tape and marker ready so you can stick some tape on the table by each student and write their name on it as they sit down.

Everyone should take their time with the work and make a finished piece of art. Limiting the paper can also help kids focus on the work. If someone finishes in super-fast time, ask them what more they can do to the existing paper. Ask again several times – unless they appear overly frustrated; then you can allow them to move on to a new work.

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Review the demo video and demonstrate to your students, or you can simply display the video on a larger screen for them to watch.

Points to make in DEMO:

• Show layering colors and white to blend
• Alike colors blend much better than opposites (Not in video!)
• Show using stump stick (blending stick) to blend
• Wipe dirty pastels with paper towel to clean
• Rub blending stick on sandpaper board to clean

Have them draw a caterpillar in pencil. They can either use wiggly lines or they can make a bunch of circles in a line. If the circles are squished into each other it looks very caterpillar-like.

Other ideas are to use a squiggly line or zig-zag line. Each kind of line will make a different looking kind of caterpillar!

Display the picture below to get them started.

• Layering colors and white to blend
• Alike colors blend best
• Use stump stick (blending stick)
• Wipe dirty pastels with paper towel to clean
• Rub blending stick on sandpaper board to clean

1. Draw a big X that looks like a letter.

2. Then draw a horizontal line across the middle, intersecting the same point that the X intersects, to make a six pointed star. Mention how this is one kind of way that we can make straight line stars. We might need these later today!

3. Draw a shorter vertical line (up and down) in the middle for the body.

4. Now we can use some of our curved lines again to help us finish. show how to make 4 curved lines to connect the top and bottom of each wing to the center horizontal line.

5. Add the antenae going up off the top of the head to finish!

6. Redraw over the light lines with your black oil pastel to make a bold black line drawing. Use a regular technique instead of tickle technique.

NOTE: See how the wings attach to the body at one spot, just like your arms do.

Pattern is made when the same kinds of shapes or lines are repeated several times close together.

Tell your students to paint their butterflies only using WARM colors. (Red, yellow, orange, pink). If your students are worried that the paint will ruin the black pastel, explain to them that water doesn’t mix with oil and show them with a little example. You should tell them to be gentle with the brush, or it can smear the pastel. Even though the water will not be doing it, the brush might.

When finished, set aside to dry.

This time, students will use a white oil pastel on the paper. Draw several different kinds of stars for them: Use 3 or 4 straight lines, like we used for the butterfly; a zig-zaggy overlap method for 5-pointed star; a zig-zag starburst; or a curvy spiral. You get to choose which kinds of lines to make your stars with. Fill the sky with stars using a white pastel on the white paper. Press pretty hard and keep the stars fairly small. Remember how there are tiny stars in the sky at night.

Explain that although you can’t see them very well right now, we will make the stars come out at night in a few minutes. It will be just like when the sun sets and the stars become visible!

Make a bunch of stars. This looks best with a lot of white used on the paper.

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Explain how the oil pastels will push the watercolor away, which is called a resist. The stars will stay white because of this really fun technique!

They will only be using COOL colors (blues and purples) for the night time sky. Make sure there is strong color and a lot of water too. Paint the sky with watery paint and watch the stars come out!

Check to make sure their names are on their artwork!

• Empty water containters
• Super-wash brushes if used
• Put art supplies away (sop up runny paint before disposing of palette paper)
• Wipe tables & toss trash
• Remove any smocks (last)
• Check for items on floors and tables

Week #4: Donut Holes

Students will learn about shapes that are made up of air, and are in-between other shapes, and how it helps to draw things if you look at these shapes in addition to solid shapes.

Week #5: Lines that Dance, Jump & Glide

Students will learn how different motions make different kinds of artwork. Today most of the work will be with line, and some with oil pastel, as we try color-dancing, and create black and white line paintings of frogs. There is also a quick review of air shapes.