Penguin art project

Welcome back! So glad to see all of you! This week, 2nd grade is going to be starting this cute lil polar bear, inspired by the fabulous Lauralee Chambers! Here's a link to her Insta account, if you want to check her out (which ya should!) @2art.chambers Here's how we created ours! Materials: Crayola Watercolors Sax liquid watercolors Crayola oil pastels black & white pencils scissors Big Kid's choice paintbrushes Day 1: Look at images of Polar Bears, and sketch out our own! Here's a video…

Penguins are a popular request in first and second grade. Students study Antarctica and are quite familiar with penguins and their habitat.

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Colorful penguin art project that use simple supplies and teaches a bunch of art techniques. #art #winter #penguins

I found this art project through Pinterest and knew my students had to do it! We used foam brushes and make stripes on color on our background. I told the students not to clean off their brushes between color changes so there would be good blending of colors. Then, we tore a snowy hill for our penguins to stand on. Putting our color background aside, we got to work on constructing our penguins. Students used black paper and made a tombstone-like shape for the penguin body and then a second…

Skiing Bears with a @jenaranyi touch🎿 The kids outlined their bear shape, added sharpie fur and scenery, used #watercolormarkers for their … | Instagram

I love the Tacky the Penguin books. Here are a couple of ideas that we did with Tacky today! We used hula hoops to make a Venn Diagram and used words that they came up with to describe Tacky and his companions. The other is an art idea- In groups of 3 or 4 the children tore black and orange paper to make the penguin black and white- we left the paper white (did not tear up white paper) Then the orange for his feet and beak. Next they tore up colored paper to make a "Hawaiian" style shirt…

Use our step-by-step tutorial to learn how to draw a penguin with 3 simple lines! This penguin drawing is easy, fun to paint & great for kids!

Ella, 1st grade Reese, 1st grade Aven, Kinder Campbell, Kinder Izzy, Kinder Jolie, Kinder Kaden, 2nd grade Kate, Kinder Lauren, Kinder My classes looked at the illustrations in the children's book, Solo by Paul Geraghty. It's the story of a young penguin who is left alone in the icy Antarctic for the first time. My students drew their penguins on pale pink construction paper so they could see their white chalk pastel shading for the penguin face and body. Heads were done in Sharpie or…