Lois Ehlert’s book, Snowballs
For those of you who don’t like templates, please don’t feel you must use them for this project. It’s just as easy to have children draw their birds. I do have many second graders who are considered “low” so the templates really helps their fine-motor skills plus it keeps them on par with other children. They do notice these little things and they feel quite empowered with their handsome cut-out birds.
Supplies
Colored 9″ x 12′ background paper, black & white oil pastels, 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper, liquid watercolors, table salt, strips of white drawing paper, black tempera paint, cardboard rectangles (cut from tagboard).
Making the Bird
Making the birch trees
Second grade students love Lois Ehlert!
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i like the bright yellow backgrounds – a fresh approach to the birch tree painting! lois ehlert has the best books! thanks for sharing.
I agree…Lois Ehlert is the best!
I love this lesson Patty! I like the different color backgrounds against the patterned birds. I will definitely try this sometime!
What a beautiful project! I love it. I can see tie ins with artist, Charley Harper. Very cool ideas…thanks once again for sharing.
Megan
http://elementaryartroom.blogspot.com
Your site is just such a treat and inspiration on so many levels—thank you so much!!!
Did the students draw their own bird shapes? Or did you have a pre-made stencil made for them? By the way… Thank you so very much for sharing your classroom. You have kept me inspired and made life a little easier for my first year teaching. I’m hoping to start my own blog one day.
Woah… Maybe I should have read the blog and not just looked at the pictures
I answered my own question.
No worries! We’re visual people!
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Just posted my interpretation of this project on to my NEW blog. Love this and also tried it with second grades. We put on blue paper and then black so we could enlarge the project area. I also let them use hole punches to create snow which they place on dots of glue. Good eye-hand coordination. They turned out lovely.
Beautiful!
I did this project with my 2nd graders and it was a huge hit! Teachers all over the school commented on how beautiful the artwork was. Thanks for the great idea!
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