Hatching Elephants

This was the first 4/5 project of the year simple but fun... the students were given  a picture of an elephant just like in the safari landscape project, and were told to draw it.   After that i showed them a few simple hatching techniques and explained how this would cause the drawings to look a bit more realistic. Then they were to color the background one solid color in crayon.  Simple. fun. easy way to start the year off project.

Elephant Safari

This project is an elaboration the a project i saw on Deep Space Sparkle website 

( http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2011/01/ink-elephant-art-lesson/)  But rather than stopping at just using the ink from the marker to paint with i had the students look at foreground, middle ground and background to add in some color.  We started the same way, i gave each student a picture of an elephant and simply told them to look and draw it, i had a lot of students worried about doing this in my 2nd grade classes, but they all drew wonderful elephants.   Next they added in a large sun set and a few trees to the back ground, followed by different plants in the middle and foregrounds.  They finished by painting with tempera cakes to add a punch of color.  The students all had fun and was a perfect lesson for my 2nd and 3rd graders.