What's in your egg?

 

You need:

1. white drawing sheet A5 size 


2. charcoal


3. yellow sheet for background 


4. hairspray

A great lesson for Easter, to be done in several grades. 



Start this lesson with a yeaser: Imagine you break your egg on Easter, and it shows something very different than just the egg.... Draw this imagination with charcoal on a white sheet.

Give instruction on how to work with charcoal. Point out that charcoal stain quickly, and give students tissues with water to clean. Show that the charcoal stripes could be blurred by smearing. In this way the shadows on the egg can be made. Tell charcoal can be erased with kneaded eraser.



Let the children first practice to experience for their self how you work with charcoal.

Then they draw the two  seperated halves of an egg with that's what in it between them. The egg should not just hang not in the air, but has to lie somewhere on or in (grass, cloth or similar).



Fix the drawing with hairspray and staple or paste it on a yellow background.

Made by students of grade 3

Henhouse

Made by students from kindergarten

You need:

1. box


2. brown tempera paint


3. brush


4. paper plate


5. white paper 


6. red paper


7. black marker


8. straw

Paint the outside of the box with brown tempera paint. Fold the plate. Outline your hand and cut it twice out of a white sheet. Paste the hands on both sides of the chicken. Cut a comb and a beak out of red paper and paste them. Paste some feathers for the tail. 

Put the box on its side. Put some straw in the box and put the chicken in it. Stack the boxes of several students for a big hen house!

Henhouse

You need:

1. coloured cardboard for the henhouse


2. white cardboard for the chicken


3. yellow cardboard for the eggs


4. red cardboard for the wing


5. fabric from onion or potato bag


6. hay


7. scissors or cutter+mat


8. glue (possibly a glue gun)


9. markers


10. pattern henhouse


11. pattern chicken


12. carbon paper

Print the pattern of the henhouse. Use carbon paper to copy the henhouse on the cardboard. Cut the house twice. Place the onion bag fabric between the two houses and paste the houses together with the fabric in between. Cut away the fabric parts that hang out the house. Print the pattern of the chicken or ask children to draw one.

Use carbon paper to copy the chicken on white cardboard and cut it out. Colour the comb, beak and eye with a marker. Copy the wing with carbon paper on red cardboard or draw a wing. Cut it out and paste it on the chicken. If you use a glue gun, drop some glue on the wing to harden. After this paste the wing on the dollop of glue to create some space between wing and body. Cut out some eggs of the yellow cardboard. Paste the hen in his house, and paste hay on the bottom. Put the eggs in the hay and paste them.

Funky chicken

You need:

1. yellow cardboard


2. yarn


3. scrapbook paper


4. two wobbly eyes

Draw a chicken on cardboard and cut it out. Cut two double legs and glue them together with a piece of yarn between. Prick two holes in the body for the legs. Tie them down to the back. Cut two wings and a comb from the paper and paste them on the chicken. Draw eyes (or choose to paste two wobbly eyes), beak and mouth. Attach a piece of yarn to the head and hang the chicken.

Easter eggs with lines

You need:

1. cardboard egg shape 10 cm high


2. pencil


3. white drawing sheet


4. several colour materials, like markers, colour pencils, crayons, chalk pastel 


5. coloured paper 20 by 14 cm


6. gekleurd papier 14 cm hoog, 20 cm breed


7. glue


8. scissors


9. fine black marker 

What kind of lines do we know? Let students draw them on the blackboard: straight - horizontal, vertical, diagonal; angular, like zig-zag and curved lines.

Students have to make four Easter eggs. Ouline the template with a pencil. Draw straight lines in the first egg, curved lines in the second one and zig-zag lines in the third one. The fourth egg may is made with lines of their own choice. Trace the lines with a fine black marker. Colour them with four different materials: colour pencils, markers, chalk pastel and crayons. Cut the eggs and paste them on a coloured sheet.

Made by students of grade 3

Chicken of towel fabric

In the Netherlands we have washcloths where you can put your hand in. I've never seen them in the USA, so for this lesson you'll have to sew them first! They look like this.

You need:

1. towel fabric


2. cotton wool balls


3. cotton thread


4. piece of cardboard


5. glue


6. wobbling eyes


7. small piece of felt


8. scissors


9. hay

Fill the two corners of the washcloth with cotton wool balls. Tie a cotton thread around the edges so the cotton does not fall out. Cut a cardboard strip with a length of 2 times the width of the washcloth and 6 cm high.

Fold this strip round and paste or staple the ends together. The circle should be slightly smaller than the opening of the washcloth.

Push the circle in the bottom of the washcloth. Push the two filled corners - the heads of the chickens -down so they are just above the rim. Paste wobbling eyes on the head and a beak of felt. Fill the space around the heads with hay or Easter eggs.

Handprinted chicken

You need:

1. yellow paper 15 by 15 cm


2. green paper 16 by 16 cm


3. brushes


4. stapler

Paint the hand and press onto the paper. Be sure the thumb faces up or forward, not down. Complete the chicken  with legs, an eye, a comb and a beak.  Paint grass and another little chicken if you want to.  

Charming chicken

Made by a student of grade 5

You need:

1. blue and yellow construction paper A4 size


2. oil pastels


3. glue

Draw a chicken on blue construction paper, using the tutorial on How to draw a chicken. Make it a charming chicken by colouring it in bright colours. Mix colours to create smooth transitions. Draw a horizon line and colour the ground. Draw somethin on the horizon line, Teken een horizonlijn en kleur de grond. Teken iets op de horizonlijn, for example a fence or a farm. 

Tear the edges of the blue sheet away and paste the chicken on a yellow undersheet. Draw eggs around it.

Made by students of grade 6

Chicken on a stick

You need:

1. cardboard box


2. tempera paint


3. brush


4. coloured paper


5. wooden skewer


6. scissors


7. glue

Draw a chicken on cardboard. Cut it. Paint the chicken and colour the beak. Cut two wings out of cardboard and cover them with coloured paper. Paste the wings with double sided tape on the chicken to make them look 3D. Cut a comb and wattle out of coloured paper and paste them on the chicken. Use a marker to draw an eye.

Cut three pieces cardboard of 8 by 5 cm and stick them together. Paste coloured paper around it. Insert a skewer into the stand and plug the other end in the chicken.

Chicken on a string

You need:

1. white drawing sheet 30 by 30 cm
2. old newspaper
3. piece of red ribbed cardboard
4. half a toilet roll
5. red paint
6. brush
7. markers
8. scissors
9. stapler
10. string

Patterned chicken

Benodigdheden:

1. white drawing sheet
2. piece of cardboard
3. black fine marker
4. red marker
5. scissors and glue

Cut a piece of cardboard from 7 by 7 cm. Draw a chicken and cut it out. Draw six squares (or less or more) on the drawing sheet from 7 by 7 cm.

Trace the chicken within the six squares. Colour the chicken, wing and background with patterns in black. Colour the beak and comb with red. Paste the chickens on a red background and decorate the edges with white eggs.

Easter bunny window

You need:

1. cardboard A4 size
2. carbon paper
3. cutter
4. cutting mat
5. glue
6. tissue paper
7. pattern (download)

Use carbon paper to copy the pattern on the cardboard. Cut the grey parts away. Paste tissue paper on the backside. Hang your bunny in the window.

Chicken on a swing

You need:

1. yellow, red and blue cardboard
2. scrapbookpaper or wrapping paper
3. glue gun
4. black marker
5. two branches of 30 cm
6. rope
7. pattern chicken on a swing (download)
8. carbon paper

Use carbon paper to draw the pattern of the body on yellow cardboard and cut it out. Do the same with the wings on blue cardboard and cut them out. Trace the cardboard wings on scrapbookpaper and cut them out. Paste the cardboard and paper wings together.

Draw the knees using carbon paper on blue cardboard and cut them out twice. Do the same with the feet on scrapbookpaper and cut them twice. Paste the feet two by two together. Paste the knees two by two together with the feet between the two layers.

Draw the comb on red cardboard and cut it out. Cut the beak and fold it in half lengthwise. Paste the beak with the short side on the head. Draw two eyes with a black marker.

Paste in a branch along the bottom of the chicken using a glue gun.
. Plak hierop de knieën/poten. Tie two pieces of rope to the branch next to the body. Put the wings on the chicken, fold them with the rope between and paste the wings double. Tie the rope to the second branch and your chicken on a swing is ready.

Chickens in the style of Andy Warhol

You need:

1. white drawing paper 21 by 14 cm
2. markers
3. piece of cardboard
4. scissors
5. pencil

Tell about Andy Warhol and show some of his work.
Divide the sheet in six rectangles from 7 by 7 cm. Draw a chicken on the cardboard and cut it out. Trace the chicken six times.
Colour the parts of the chicken and the backgrounds with markers in bright colours. Outline the chickens and the parts of them with a fine black marker. Draw the legs.

Easter bunny

You need:

1. white drawing sheet A4 size


2. colour pencils


3. template for easter egg

Scetch an Easter bunny in the middle of the sheet. Cut an egg out of a piece of cardboard. Trace this egg so many times on your drawing sheet - also over the bunny - till it's competely full. Overlapping is required. Colour the bunny parts in warm colours, the background in cool colours.