Thursday, March 6, 2014

Who says shamrocks have to be green? :)


I attempted a freehand shamrock drawing last week with 1st grade...

epic fail.... :(


So, I felt I needed to redeem the shamrock by pulling out my heart cookie cutters and trying it again!  This time with third grade.  We are using the shamrock project to learn about analogous colors and blending.  Once they finished tracing the hearts, with sides and bottoms touching, they added stems.  I handed out color wheels and we discussed analogous colors and blending.  The they went to town, coloring with crayola color sticks!  The blending almost makes some of them glow!  I'll post more pics as they finish up!









8 comments:

  1. What a great idea! I love it! These look terrific!

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  2. Thanks! I honestly didn't want them to use up all my green color sticks, so that's why I decide to do them all colors! Ha ha! :)

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  3. What exactly are the crayola colour sticks made of? Are they pastels? chalk?
    Thanks!

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    1. Hi! I apologize for the delay in my response! Crayola color sticks are like colored pencils without the wood! No sharpening and they're more sturdy than pastels. Also much neater! One difference I've discovered between colored pencils and the color sticks is that they will show up on dark colors of construction paper!

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  4. I would like to to know also, What are crayola colour sticks?

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    1. Hi! I apologize for the delay in my response! Crayola color sticks are like colored pencils without the wood. No sharpening and they're more sturdy than pastels. Also much neater! One difference I've discovered between colored pencils and the color sticks is that they will show up on dark colors of construction paper!

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