Little Quack! Directed Draw

After reading Little Quack's New Friend and talking about their great friendship, we learned how to draw the characters!  It is really exciting when a child can follow directions and come out with a picture they wouldn't have been able to draw independently.  They gain confidence when they see their picture does look like the characters.  We always emphasize that everyone's artwork will be different and it should be.  The unique ways children draw is so organic and beautiful.  LOVED this project!

I found some tutorials online for the characters and then taught it to the students with directed draw.

My sample:

Giraffes - learning complementary colors

Mrs. Davies & Mrs. Cern's 1st Grade class learned about complementary colors!  They followed Miss Tara's directed draw to create adorable giraffes!

  The kids used oil pastels for the giraffe and Chalk pastels for the background color.

Examples from 2014-2015

Circle Pigs - Shapes

Read: Shape of my Heart

Talk about shapes all around us.  

Today we practiced drawing circles!

Shapes and lines

Mrs. Perry's TK Class 2015-2016

We talked about lines and shapes.  We practiced lots of lines on another paper...

cloud/rainbow lines, zig zag, mountain, loopy, curly, wavy, straight!

We did a directed draw to make a hot air balloon.  Inside the Balloon they drew more lines!

Second Grade Cow