We then turned those rows into a fall harvest with pumpkins, corn, apple trees, squash, and anything else we could think of! The students could add animals, houses, trees, anything they wanted to to fill up the extra space in their picture.
This is a fun project for kids who haven't done perspective before. We start off by re-visiting what a horizon line is and then add in the vanishing point what what that does in a picture. Students look at various pictures and point out where the horizon line is and where the vanishing point is. We then drew out our own landscapes using a horizon line, vanishing point, and placing 5 rows going back to the vanishing point wherever they liked on their paper. We then turned those rows into a fall harvest with pumpkins, corn, apple trees, squash, and anything else we could think of! The students could add animals, houses, trees, anything they wanted to to fill up the extra space in their picture.
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The first grade classes learned how to draw pumpkins from observation. I set out a pumpkin at each table and the students worked very hard on creating the most realistic pumpkin they could. After they were drawn, they used glue to draw over top of their pencil marks. Once the glue was dry they colored in their pumpkins with watercolor pencils and added water over top of that. These turned out so great! To get into the spirit of fall, we created these fun spooky houses! Students looked at victorian houses and discussed the architecture of this style of house. They created drawings on black paper and traced them with metallic sharpies. They glued them onto water color paper where they did a "wet on wet" technique to create more of a sky effect. Then they got to decide what extra spooky details they wanted to add to their pictures. Pretty awesome I think! The second grade class created really fun leave rubbing pictures! We built upon our complementary color knowledge and used crayons and watercolors to create beautiful pictures. Kindergarteners created fall leaves with tissue paper painted backgrounds. We discussed the colors of fall, the things you get to do in the fall time, and the different parts of leaves. They talked about what the veins in a leaf do to keep it alive and they learned why/how leaves change color in the fall. Steps: *Trace a leaf shape onto paper *Create the veins of your leaf *Paint tissue paper squares over top of your leaf *Cut of the leaf |