Let’s Draw!

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Students draw and learn about the styles of various artists and illustrators.

OBJECTIVE

Students Will:

1. Practice their drawing skills.
   

MATERIALS

• Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola
• I Can Draw Animals by Ray Gibson
• From Pictures to Words by Janet Stevens
• Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Ahlsburg
• Crayons
• Pencils
• Drawing paper
• Kidspiration by Inspiration Software, Inc. (Mac or PC version) or chart paper, or a blackboard for brainstorming

SET UP AND PREPARE

• Sharpen pencils
• Check Kidspiration connection to large screen monitor

DIRECTIONS
Step 1: Read Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola. Talk to students about keeping their dreams.

Step 2: Introduce I Can Draw Animals (or use another How to Draw book). This type of book can help give young children a start in observing new details in drawing.

Step 3: Demonstrate various ways to manipulate crayons or pencils to get different lines widths, textures, and shapes.

Step 4: Have the children use crayons or pencils to draw their best pictures. (They may want to draw more than one.)

Step 5: Hang their best drawing on a bulletin board or on the wall. Or create a class book from the drawings.

Step 6: Using Kidspiration to list what the children learned about drawing.

LESSON EXTENSION
Read From Pictures to Words by Janet Stevens. Chart the steps involved in illustrating a book.

Read Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Ahlsburg. Draw a picture from an ant's perspective or from a giraffe's perspective.

ASSESS STUDENTS
Teacher observation will assess student participation in listening to the book and drawing their best picture.

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