Projects for early elementary (>3rd grade)
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Designing the Zodiac
Students learn about constellations across many different cultures and create their own constellation and write their own origin story.
Primary Material: Oil pastels, watercolor
Artist, Explorer, Scientist:
Students learn John Audubon & scientific drawing. They choose an animal, research it, and draw an accurate picture in it’s habitat. They finish by creating prints.
Primary Material: Pencil, printmaking
Superheroes
Students learn to recognize shapes and types of lines as they design and draw their own superheroes.
Primary Materials: Collage, watercolor
The Secret Language of Objects
Students learn how objects can represent an idea, or serve as symbols. They use symbols to create an artwork that can tell a story.
Primary Material: colored pencils
Symbol & Self:
Students create metaphorical self-portraits.
Primary Material: Colored pencil
Anthropomorphic Animals:
Students choose an animal, draw it realistically from photographs, and then use the background to show what human traits the animal has come to represent.
Primary Material: markers
A Toy’s Story
Students depict where their toys go in their imagination.
Primary Material: markers
Dream House:
Students build their ‘dream house’ with blocks, then draw it using observation drawing.
Primary Material: Pencils, oil pastels