Make life easy on yourself and place random scraps of paper in a small tray on each table so kids can pick their own pieces. On the whiteboard I demonstrated how to draw different shapes for monster mouths and gave the kids a choice to add one, two, or even four eyes to their monster. The sulphite paper will soak up the paint making it look streaky, but it will dry just fine.Īt this point you will be done for the day (40 minutes) so place the monsters on a drying rack until next time…. The trick to using liquid watercolor on sulphite paper is to work fast and despite how tempting, not to brush over the same area more than twice. Set one container of water and as many brushes as you need on each table. Set a tray of liquid watercolors on each table (read about liquid watercolors here). You will have to remind the kids not to color with oil pastels as the paint is coming. Encourage them to add patterns, stripes, squiggles or any other desired lines to their monster parts. It won’t ensure the body will be think, but we’ll leave that challenge for another day.įrom the handout, select ONE SET OF ARMS and ONE SET OF LEGS.Īt this point, the kids get the idea. The fold lines ensure that the body will be big. Starting at the TOP FOLD LINE, draw the body all the way down to the BOTTOM FOLD LINE. They don’t have to copy the body shape exactly but this just helps ignite their imaginations. Hand each child the drawing handout and ask children to select a body shape that they like. Just take 5 minutes and do it yourself (stack 3-5 pieces of paper and fold at once. Yes, kids can do this but it will literally take you ten minutes to walk this age group through this folding exercise. To prevent first graders from drawing teensy-weensy monsters (you know they will!), do a little paper prep first and fold the paper into thirds. – Scraps of colored and printed paper, including a small amount of white and black – Liquid watercolors (just 2 or 3 colors is fine) – 1 colored piece of 12″ x 18″ sulphite paper (I use black) This lesson as well as hundreds more can be found within the Sparklers’ Club a monthly subscription of art lessons, teacher resources, lesson videos, trainings and more! Click HERE to join the waitlist and be notified of our next enrollment. In the running for a monster related story was If You’re A Monster and you Know It by Ed and Rebecca Emberley.īut in the end I chose Monsters Love School art project because the little monsters on the cover were just so cute!Ĭlick the button below to download my free drawing guide for the Monsters Love School art project: My go-to monster lesson for this age group has always been Where the Wild Things Are, but this year I looked for a new source of monster delights.Įnter Monsters Love Schoolby Mike Austin. Monsters are always a popular subject for my younger art students.
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