This project was inspired by Keichi Nishimura and fabulous Japanese artist 🙂 The fun thing about the chalk is that if the students blend too much they can go back and retrace their crane again. Enjoy!
Skill Learned:
Blending with chalk. Making movement in art and tracing skills are utilized.
Materials Needed:
- 2 small crane cut outs to trace per student and glue onto piece at end
- large moon cut out
- Chalk pastels (I use the Sergent art set of 12 in class)
- White and yellow tempera
- Crane and moon cut outs
- 18 X 24 taped watercolor paper
- glue to adhere moon
- iridescent sparkles for moon
- black puffy paint or black sharpie for eyes
First talk to students about cranes and birds in general. We are near the beach so we discussed how pelicans fly in V formation all going the same way etc. This is so they think about how to lay out their bird pattern. Then I have them trace 8 cranes (in the end they will have 10 total because they glue the Continue Reading »
