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

Old locomotives in charcoal

You need:

1. drawing sheet A3 size
2. charcoal
3. kneaded eraser
4. pictures of old locomotives
5. hairspray
6. newspapers

Cover the tables with newspapers. Give each student a black/white picture of an old locomotive. This locomotive has to be drawn with charcoal. Use papertowels to smudge the charcoal and kneaded eraser to brighten up. Use another sheet under the drawing had to prevent stains. Fix the artwork with hairspray.

Easter Island

You need:

1. drawing paper A4 size
2. charcoal
3. black construction paper

Easter Island is a volcanic island in the Great Ocean and belongs to Chile. It has been discovered by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen on Easter Sunday in 1722.
Easter Island is famous for its large statues, the moai. These statues are till 10 m high and made of soft volcanic rock (tuff). The makers were the ancestors of many of the current island inhabitants. The whole island since 1995 on the World Heritage List of UNESCO.

Start this lesson by telling about Easter Island and looking at pictures. Tell about the statues and the meaning of them (Wikipedia).
Ask children to draw their own Easter Island. Show them how to make shadows in their drawing, to give a statue depth.Paste the works on a black background.

Wacky witches

You need:

1. charcoal
2. chalk pastels
3. white drawing paper A4 size
4. black construction paper for background
5. hairspray

How do you recognize a withc? What animals or things do you associate with a witch? What does an angry witch look like? Think of characteristis like mouth, eyes and eyebrows.

Tell children to practice first in drawing with charcoal. Explain how differences in colours have to be made. Tell them to use an eraser to erase the charcoal lines, and a tissue or your fingers to sweep out the colour.

The instruction is: draw an angry witch with charcoal and use a cold colour for the face. Draw the contours of the face first with charcoal. Then colour the face with chalk pastel. After this mouth, eyes and nose can be drawn with charcoal. Finish the drawing with charcoal. Make sure you add some typical witchy things like a cat, a bat, a spiderweb etc.

Opart like Vaserely

You need:

1. white paper
2. markers
3. ruler and pencil
4. charcoal

Show the children works from Victor Vasarely. What do you see? Do you recognize the optical illusion? How did Vasarely make this? Do you see the shapes coming out from the background? What colours and shapes has been used? We call this opart or optical art.
Tell children they are going to make an opart drawing today. Every child becomes a white sheet of paper and starts with outlining one or more round objects like a lid or a dish. Draw curved lines from above to below and from the right to the left.

Draw a grid pattern behind the circle with squares from 1,5 to 1,5 cm. Teach children how to do this, it appeared not to be that easy...:)

When finished, colour the squares in the circle like a checkerboard.
1. Go slow and think first, a mistake is easily made.
2. No two colours should be right next to eachother (side to side)
3. Colours should always be corner to corner with eachother

To accentuate depth, we used a piece of charcoal and drew a shadow around the ball.