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Rainbow Animals
By: Casey Pennell March 23, 2023
Pre-plan your animals. Using paper and a marker, decide what simplified animals you’d like to use. Terry Runyan uses general shapes to create her...
Rainy Day Umbrella
By: Casey Pennell February 24, 2023
Draw your umbrella Place your non-dominant hand towards the top of our paper making sure it’s spread as wide as you can, and place a dot above...
Coloring Page Lesson with Amanda O’Shaughnessy
Amanda O’Shaughnessy provides this wonderful lesson to create drawings using different colored pencil...
Apple Basket Still Life
Use a pencil to draw the basic shape of the basket. If you are using a basket for observation, refer to its shape as you draw and point out details that...
Perspective Apple Farm
Use a pencil to draw the horizon line and the vanishing point at the top of the page. Then, demonstrate how to draw two orthogonal lines to the vanishing...
Abstract Color Mixing
Determine the total number of colors you will use. For example, if you choose red, yellow and blue, you will need three areas for each of the three primary...
Friendship Circles
If working collaboratively, tape two sheets of paper together on the back, use painter’s tape so it can easily be removed. Use a pencil and tracers to...
They All Saw a Cat
Pre-Planning Read the book They All Saw a Cat, By Brendan Wenzel. Discuss how the cat changes from each character’s perception. Have students...
STEAM Tangram Animals
Trace it in pencil. Have pencils and erasers handy to begin outlining. First, students will arrange their tangrams on their paper in the shape of an...
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