by Dennas Davis | Dec 17, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will learn about snowflakes, first drawing some snowflake designs, and then painting a large snowflake in tempera paint. They’ll end their lesson with a choice of working on some holiday cartoons or doing a pastel of lights at night. Grades K –...
by Dennas Davis | Dec 10, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will continue our pet theme. First we’ll make prints using the cat yarn print blocks from last week, and then create dog drawings and paintings. We end the day inventing a fantastic dog house! Grades 3 – 5 Week of December 15 – 19 1 Hour...
by Dennas Davis | Dec 3, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will make 3D ornaments out of cardboard and paint them. These will stand up on a table or hang on a tree and can follow non-Christmas themes if needed. Afterwards, they will make their own stamps and use them to create original wrapping paper. Grades...
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...
