Polar Bears in Chalk

POLAR BEARS IN CHALK

One of my goals with my elementary students is to teach them a variety of ways to create art. This lesson incorporates paper, chalk, and oil pastels and has three layers of paper. They learned about how using the chalk on the side creates a different texture than using it more upright. These particular examples were done by my third graders but a younger group could do this easily.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Using the side of white chalk on black construction paper, my third grade students lightly chalked in a triangular shape for the head of the polar bear.

Next, they added oval shapes for the ears.

 Finally, they made the body.

They cut a piece of white paper with slightly curving lines and glued it onto a blue construction paper background.

They cut out their bear, glued it onto the blue and white background, and added white snowflakes with the white chalk. Using black chalk, they lightly shaded under the jaw of the bear. Using black oil pastel, students added eyes, a nose, and ear shadows.