by Dennas Davis | Nov 19, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will all bring candy to create a huge candy “store” that everyone can “shop” at for their houses. A half-gallon paperboard milk carton is cut in half to make the house, which is glued to a small cardboard base. Icing and candy cover the entire house!...
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...
