1st grade: Line Snakes

All of the grades are currently learning about lines. I saw this project on a mentor teachers blog: Adventures in Elementary Art .  First grade started this project by learning about what a line is and then practicing drawing different types of lines like zigzag, straight, wavy, curly, and dotted. Then they drew a snake on their paper using a "wavy" line, making sure they made the body fat so they could draw in it. Then, they had to split the snake into 5 different sections. We discussed how many lines it would take to make 5 sections. Then they filled in each section with a different type of line and filled in the background with different types of lines.

The next class we learned about a "resist" and used watercolor to paint a resist on top of the lines to add color.

They turned out so great!