Molas Art Lesson using Markers and Paper

November 24, 2007 By 4 Comments

One of the best books for art lesson ideas is Dynamic Art Projects for Children by Denise Logan. It has many doable art lessons for elementary kids. This Mola project above came from this book and includes great tutorials plus handouts to give to the children. I did this lesson with fourth grade kids but it would be great or even better with fifth or sixth grade.

I’ve done this Mola lesson a few times and always had a classroom of eager, excited students. A few struggled with the drawings, but if you break down the drawing into basic shapes and then talk about adding “echo” lines, the drawings don’t seem as intimidating. I encourage you to visit my other post of making Molas, to see how we did the drawing.

Fourth Grade Molas

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  1. Kathy says:
    October 18, 2009 at 11:52 am

    I looked at a couple of your sample molas before we started designing them in my fourth grade art class 2 weeks ago. I like the multicolored paper strips your students used in the background.

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  2. Jen Cooper says:
    April 11, 2011 at 9:24 am

    Peggy Flores has a fantastic how to make paper molas video that you can show as an intro to this lesson.

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