Second Grade Art Lesson 27

Making Garden Flowers, Part 2 Drawing from Our Flower Garden

Objective:

The student will use the flower garden that we made in the last lesson to draw a picture of flowers. The student will create their own coloring book page of flowers.

Materials:

12 x 18 heavy white paper, pencil, black permanent marker, the flower garden wall to look at.

Procedure:

Remind the students of the flowers they made last week and explain that we are going to use them as the subject for our drawing today. If possible, have everyone sit in front of the wall where all of the flowers are displayed. Have each student pick three or five flowers from the garden to represent on their paper. Obviously they do not need to pick their own flowers, but may use any arrangement. Encourage them to draw large, filling their paper with the flowers. Some flowers may need to overlap or even run right off the page. Suggest they allow for these situations and do not try drawing smaller to make the flowers fit onto the page. Once the paper is filled with either three or five flowers have them go over the pencil lines with a permanent marker. The final work should look similar to a coloring book page. We will color in the flowers in the next lesson.

Conclusion:

Have the students look at and evaluate their work. Before they draw over their pencil lines you may have them ask the following questions: Did I fill up the space on my white paper? Did I let the flower petals run off of the edge of the page or overlap rather than trying to make them smaller and squeezing them in? Did I draw a variety of flowers to make an interesting arrangement?

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