Winter Art Projects

Time to update some our the elementary winter projects.

Making a snow or ice scene is difficult for children (and some adults) because you can't really draw snow if you are using white paper. You have to draw shadows or reflections.
I chose penguins because kids love penguins! (and a few other bird type people like penguins)

I took the students through a lesson on drawing penguins, then we added the background. Some students did better than others at "seeing" shadows.

I also gave the option of a sun, but would not let them draw it like they used to in first grade, a circle with rays coming out.
They could only draw the colors reflecting from the sun.
Again, some did better than others.
That really stretches the kids!

First & second graders drew clowns. I was trying to teach face proportions, but still allow them creativity in their clown faces. I think next time I will do a regular face first, then a clown face.
Was just a little too much in one lesson.

I love the bright colors in this one.

Here are more penguins and also our Olympic figures.

We looked at many different sports and started with quick sketches of all the different events in the Olympics.

I used skiing to teach them figure proportions and how to draw bent legs.

This project again stretched their brains on how to draw a snowman and not have all of it on the paper. It felt incomplete to many of the students.
I really like the results and the kids did too.
We used oil pastels on blue paper.

Each one was unique!