Category Archives: 2nd Grade Lessons

Grade 2 Lines Lesson “Crazy Hair”

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Grade 2 learned all about Lines and began creating self-portraits using lines for their hair.
Students developed skills in drawing and painting. Students learned how to use the lines of design in a portrait.

Haunted Houses

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Haunted House Display using my Grade 2’s spider web window project which focused on lines and 3 dimensional spiders.
Grade 3 learned how to draw haunted houses and spider webs, they also incorporated a 3D spider for a dramatic effect.
Black oil pastel was used for the webbed background of haunted houses.

African Kente Cloths

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Paper weaving lesson 2nd and fourth grade did different versions of African Kente Cloths✊🏽

Paper weaving
African Kente Cloth Designs
Kente Cloths
Designing Kente Cloths
African Kente Cloths
African Kente Cloths
Final touch African Kente Cloths
Making African Kente Cloths
African Kente Cloths
Kente Cloths

 

 

Collaborative Line Project

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My second grade did this line project using the crayon resist technique.  I painted the boards with the thick black lines and each team of students was given a board to use crayons to draw “The Lines of Design” (some were using color pencils) on the white space.  Once the boards were all filled with lines.  They used watercolor to paint the boards and watch their lines pop through the paint like magic.  I then put all the boards together to create a mural for the Art Exhibition.

Owls

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My first graders painted owls:

Drawing Process:

  • The owls body, including wings, head and ears
  • Add skinny legs
  • Add dots for the pupils

Painting Process:

  • White- owls body, including wings, head and ears
  • Black- outline,skinny legs, pupils
  • Black- add small feather strokes…little “u’s”
  • White-Snowy background

Lastly they were given a strip of brown construction paper to make a branch and glue under the feet.

Can you say ADORABLE!…I found this on Pinterest and had to do this project with my students so I must share because the Pinterest post did not have directions just a image.  Have Fun!!

My second grade did collage owls:

Process:

  • Paint snow all over their construction paper and glue a brown branch to the bottom of their paper.
  • They were given two circle templates for the body, to trace, cut out and glue onto paper above the branch.
  • Use small pieces of torn paper to fill in the body.
  • Two cupcake liners for eyes, use yellow paper for the circles inside.
  • Use a small piece of black construction paper to make a beak, legs and feet.
  • Lastly fold paper and trace wing template, cut out and glue them on the sides of the owl.

 

 

 

 

 

Bugs in a Jar

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My 2nd Graders learned how to draw different types of insects.  They first traced a template of a jar.  Then they drew their bugs inside the jar.  I then had them trace their drawing with a black oil pastel/ black crayons will also work.  Then they used watercolors to paint their bugs and their jar.  Lastly they cut out their jars and counted the bugs inside.

Cave Art

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Learned all about cave art. Students were given examples of animals and symbols to draw on butcher paper, they then colored with oil pastels. The best part was telling them they had to crumble their work up.  Finally they signed their work with their hand print and white paint. I then created this cool cave to display their work.