I've had my eye on this lesson for a while now. I've spotted it a few times on the internet and the pictures look fun to do.
Its based on the book, Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae with illustrations by Guy Parker - Rees (who was our artist of the week - click here for further information)
I used the lesson plan by Patty at Deep Space Sparkle as inspiration (her lessons are always so good!) with a few changes here and there.
What you need:
- A3 cartridge paper - two per student
- blue, green, yellow and white paint
- bamboo sticks
- glue sticks
- scissors
- silver paint or pens
- yellow and orange / brown liquid watercolors
- Black permanent markers
- Pencils
- scrap paper to practice on
- Silver glitter (optional)
- Giraffe photos (optional)
How to:
Week One
- Read the book
- Do a guided drawing of a giraffe on the whiteboard
- Get the children to follow along and then on a practice piece of paper get them to draw giraffes in different dancing positions
- When they are happy with one get them to copy this onto the A3 cartridge paper, first in pencil then go over lines with black permanent marker
- Colour in using yellow liquid watercolour with orange / brown as spots
- Leave to dry
- For the background - ask them to draw a moon and a line across the bottom for the grass in pencil
- Paint the grass area yellow
- Paint the sky blue, ensuring they leave out the moon
- Paint the moon with white paint (new brush) then go around it in circles to create the lighter blue area around the moon
- Paint over the yellow grass with green paint
- Scratch in grass and flowers with bamboo skewers
- Leave to dry
- Cut out dancing giraffe and glue onto background
- Add stars with silver paint or pen
- Add glitter to stars (optional)
These make me smile ...... Didn't they do a good job! Giraffes are pretty hard to draw for 5-9 year olds yet they took on the challenge and I love what they did. Yes a few boys drew the giraffe landing on his head (that's boys for you) and some of the girls added pink tutus (that's girls for you).
Cheers
Fiona
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