I’m always looking for simple drawing ideas that are then easy to shade. This one works and makes a pretty picture too.1. On a 9" x 12" piece of paper, the students are to a large circle for the hen body and then a small one for it’s head.
2. The head is connected to the body with a neck, and a tail and legs are added.
3. Details are drawn on the hen head and a wing is drawn on the body. Two or more half-circles are added (wherever there is room) to make the chicks.
4. Heads and legs are added to the chicks.
5. All the lines are traced with a fat black Sharpie, and then colored in with pastels. My sample is colored with Portfolio® 24-pack Oil Pastels. Older students may add shadows by using a bit of black on top of some of the colored areas.
2. The head is connected to the body with a neck, and a tail and legs are added.
3. Details are drawn on the hen head and a wing is drawn on the body. Two or more half-circles are added (wherever there is room) to make the chicks.
4. Heads and legs are added to the chicks.
5. All the lines are traced with a fat black Sharpie, and then colored in with pastels. My sample is colored with Portfolio® 24-pack Oil Pastels. Older students may add shadows by using a bit of black on top of some of the colored areas.
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Hi Kathy,
My group of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder love to borrow books from the library that have these step by step drawings and they are really good at drawing what they see. It is usually an activity that they like to do on their own but while I was reading your post I thought it would be a great idea to do this activity with them as a teacher directed activity at the beginning or end of a lesson. They are not usually interested in shading but that's okay! Thanks for the inspiration.
why why why why why???!!!
teach children to draw, not copy this symbolic garbage!
My 4 year old WON'T draw symbolically because what he does "isn't good enough" (his own words). I sat down and painted through these steps with him (no shading, obviously) and he LOVED it. He was so proud of himself and I was so proud of him. Sure, it would be better for him to be able to put a pen to paper with his own ideas. But he doesn't have the confidence for that right now. Doing things like this give kids skills, techniques, and confidence!
I am so thankful to you for this site. I know so many teachers keep their ideas and plans to themselves. Your generosity is a gift to us!
Thank You so much for posting this site. My six year old loves to draw animals for school projects and your site takes away the frustrations he use to express!!!
Thanks so much for your kind words of support everyone! It is much appreciated.
I guess this will be fab for some kids and not for others! Anyway just posting to say I love your blog, and was finally motivated to buy some oil pastesls today and my son loves them! I just started a blog too and posted his picture because I am so proud of it, he doesn't seem himself as an 'art' or 'craft' person so its nice to see him enthused, thanks
Agreed!
The easier, then the better! This is the way we love to work, just as you suggest in your very kind blog.
Love you for making children's life much more exciting!
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