Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Ink Elephants


I saw this lesson on Deep Space Sparkle. It looked difficult on first glance but I realized that the children would just draw with regular old black Crayola markers and then paint with water. Easy!

This lesson took less than 40 minutes to complete. We drew the elephant together. That was the most intimidating part for the children but they all had very elephant-looking critters on their papers. They drew in the folds. We did it all in marker, no pencil. The children then added their own background and painted with water.

I stressed the importance of knowing when an artwork is complete and stopping. I would recommend having an elephant story to read to the children after they finish their artwork because this lesson is pretty short.

Third grade results:





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