by Dennas Davis | Apr 11, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW The first week of making a big 3D Painted cardboard project has students building an animal out of boxes and tubes. This week they’ll prime the sculpture so that next week, when it’s dry, they can paint it like the animal – or in wild crazy colors! Today they...
by Dennas Davis | Apr 9, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW After a warmup and then drawing eyes, students use symmetry and mirrors, to learn insights about the face. Then with instructions, they draw and paint their own portraits using tempera paints on watercolor paper. – – – Grades 1 – 2...
by Dennas Davis | Apr 2, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Artists get to paint their big animals using acrylic paints. They get to choose realistic color or crazy fun color. Then the Big Shapes idea is reinforced, along with review of The Most Important Spot. They’ll create artwork in oil pastels by drawing a big...
by Dennas Davis | Mar 31, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will start with an expressive and wild oil pastel of an elephant by looking at a photo. Then they learn how to see big shapes and draw it more realistically before painting in watercolors. The second half of the lesson is about exaggerating and...
by Dennas Davis | Mar 19, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Artists make trees by twisting pipe cleaners, and paper leaves are attached. Then everyone designs and creates a tiny tree house to go onto their tree sculptures. The whole thing is glued together and onto a base for a fun project to take home. –...
by Dennas Davis | Mar 5, 2025 | Lessons > Grades 1 & 2
OVERVIEW Students will create paintings of familiar subjects using colors that are not realistic. They will also learn about using guidelines, or whisper lines, to help in creating accurate paintings, and use bold lines to outline areas of color. – –...
