2nd Grade Lessons
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Polar “Bear” Express
Grade 2 learned how to draw a polar bear through a guided drawing activity. They learned about the element of art “ Value” and experimented creating value with oil pastels. They also learned about foreground, middle ground, and background. Read more
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African Kente Cloths
Paper weaving lesson 2nd and fourth grade did different versions of African Kente Cloths✊🏽 Read more
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The Monster Bash! 👻🎃
Happy Halloween! My 1st Grade did the Crazy leg Frankensteins. 2nd Grade- Scary Jack-o-Laterns 3rd Grade- Picasso (Cubism) Frankensteins Read more
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Collaborative Line Project
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… Read more
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Owls
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… Read more
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Bugs in a Jar
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.… Read more
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Cave Art
2nd Grade 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… Read more
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Wayne Thiebaud
1st Grade Wayne Thiebaud primary color inspired Ice Cream cones. students traced their hands to create scoops of ice cream, then drew and cut out triangle for cone. 2nd Grade Wayne Thiebaud inspired Gum ball Machines. Read more
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