5th Grade- Implied Texture Creatures!

We began this lesson by learning about texture. I showed the students images of pencil drawing that demonstrated textures and talked with them about how we can use our pencils to show texture that can't be felt. I gave them a worksheet that included labled boxes such as "bumpy", "soft", etc. They had to use their pencils to fill in the boxes, making the boxes look like the correct texture. The next day I handed out a half sheet of paper and told the students that they had to come up with their own imaginary creature. They had to do a pencil drawing of their imaginary creatures that included texture. I told them that when the finished, I should be able to tell what the creature feels like just by looking at it.

They did great and I loved the results so much that I felt that I should share alot of pictures with you guys!

 

 

 

 

Kindergarten- Texture Plants!

This was a science integrated lesson that I came up with. The students first learned about texture and then made texture rubbings using crayons and texture rubbing sheets. The next day I handed out a worksheet about the parts of a plant ( a Kindergarten science standard). We talked about each part of the plant and what it's purpose was and the students filled in the plant parts on their worksheets.

Then I handed back their texture rubbing sheets and gave them a Sharpie marker. We reviewed the different parts of a plant and then drew each part seperatly on the texture sheets. 

The next class the students cut out their plant parts and assembled the plant on a sheet of construction paper. They turned out great, and they learned alot about plants during the process!

1st Grade- Texture Creatures!

For this project, we began the lesson by learning about texture. I had the students name textures and I wrote them on the board. I also made some hands out of cardboard and glued actual textures to each finger. I put the students into groups of 2 and had them feel the textures and talk about them to their partners. Then, I had the students fold a sheet of white drawing paper 4 times (making 8 rectangular sections when you unfold it). The students used crayons and texture rubbing templates to create a different texture in each section. They had to fill up their whole paper.

The next day we reviewed shapes (from their previous lesson) and I had them cover their whole texture paper with small, medium, and large shapes using a Sharpie. 

The students then cut out all of the shapes and assembled them together on a half sheet of colored construction paper in the shape of an imaginary creature from their own imaginations.