by Dennas Davis | Nov 12, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2, Teachers@Firstlight
OVERVIEW Students will look at artwork of cats and photographs. They’ll make some realistic drawings and cartoon cat drawings too, discussing the features that make them look like cats. A drawing will be used to glue yarn onto, creating a yarn-drawing print block that...
by Dennas Davis | Nov 5, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will continue with cartooning, and work on cartoon hands and feet. Then we move on to creating crazy creatures and silly monsters. It's a fun day of cartoon art. Grades K – 2 Week of November 10 – 14 1 Hour & 30 Minutes Student Work...
by Dennas Davis | Oct 29, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will have tons of fun learning the parts of cartoon faces and practicing how to put them all together. they'll finish with a final cartoon in marker outlines and coloring with layers of oil pastels. Grades 1 – 2 Week of November 3 – 7 1...
by Dennas Davis | Oct 22, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students have fun drawing leaves from photos, and using oil pastels to color them. Then a straw and blow technique is used to create ink tree branches. The last project is to draw a tree in pencil and then wet the paper. Watercolors are used to create a soft...
by Dennas Davis | Oct 15, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will spend the whole day creating and working with lines: line inventing; color line art; charcoal line art; backwards line art (white on black paper); and a line art game. Grades 1 – 2 Week of October 20 – 24 1 Hour & 30 Minutes...
by Dennas Davis | Oct 1, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students are introduced to an important design element, The Most Important Spot, (emphasis). We hunt for shapes, using tracing paper to capture them from photos. Students will also work with warm vs. cool colors using oil pastels. Grades 1 – 2 Week of...
