1st grade Igloos:

1) SMARTboard images/discuss

2) Demonstrate drawing igloos
3D appearance, curve the lines around it
-outline with black Sharpie
-Color heavy with white crayon

3) Paint with blue liquid watercolor (whole paper)

4) Let dry (students can draw animals or arctic things if finished early)

Class 2:

1) On 12" z 18" blue, draw a horizon line of some sort

2) Use a white crayon to add details (a COLD winter landscape)

(My other classes fingerpainted with white, and added thumbprint penguins first during 2nd class - this class was 1 day behind from missing a day....lasted 3 cycles/classes if doing finger painting too)

3) Fold paper in 1/2. cut twice on fold, "pop out" the fold and bend edges.

4) Glue cut-out igloo to the pop out

5) Add penguins, polar bears, pine trees, and other pop outs using same technique.


REALLY successful lesson with great feelings of accomplishment for all!! :)

ZOOM SNOWMEN

I borrowed this idea from Deep Space Sparkle...popular site for great art lessons/ideas.

1) 1st, I review cool colors with 2nd grade, and explain why cool colors are grouped together.
-I even touch upon purple not just being a "girl color."
-Real life application, and we just rid of that myth before someone even says it. :)

2) On 9" x 12" blue, blue-green, or purple, I show students how to draw a close-up snowman.
-Start with the half cirlce face.
- Draw a large 2nd circle (half of a half = 1/4). Some fun math facts/applications.
- Add details (borrow the circle line for a striped scarf = fixing a 'mistake.)
-Do the same with the carrot nose (use the circle line as a line on the carrot - especially if using oil crayon to draw).
-I let students draw in oil crayon or pencil for this one....we color with oil crayon/pastel and then finish with white tempera.
-Results are stunning....made a great display for January, and the local newspaper covered the story. :)
-Perfect simple lesson to start Jnanuary back at school.