Snowy Day

This little girl made herself a "snow angel" and she remembered tracks in the snow too!
I lead this project in order to be able to discuss proportion and other drawing skills. This was pretty typical of my kindergart students. Not too shabby.
About the time I accused this boy of not following directions, he informed me that he was inside, drinking hot chocolate. Yep. I can see it now.

I wanted to work on some basic people drawing skills with my Kindergarten, and decided to use the cold weather to my advantage. After hearing Ezra Jack Keat's "The Snowy Day" we made pictures of how we dress up for the snow.

Rescuing the 2nd grade project

The second graders were to cut their silhouettes out of tissue paper, and then paste them to the snowy background. Oh, the best laid plans. My second graders got lazy, and didn't cut as well as they had drawn and traced their people. So, we ended up with wiggly blobs. After they were dry, I had them trace their athletes with markers, to re-define the shape, and we used some letters that had been donated to the art room to spell out action words. This helped to break up the space of the picture, as well as re-enforced some language skills.