Forrests With Foxes
Materials:
- 1 large sheet of white paper for each student
- 1 strip of black paper cut 1.5 inches wide (this will be the big tree)
-2 or 3 strips of black paper cut 1 inch wide (these will be the medium trees)
-2 or 3 strips of black paper cut half an inch wide (these will be the small trees)
-white oil pastels
-black watercolor
-paintbrushes
-scissors
-glue
-black sharpies
-pencils
-pre-printed fox outlines for younger students
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| Some finished projects by 2nd graders |
Forrests Overview:This is a 2 week project. All the students are making essentially the same image: 6 black trees on a snow covered ground with a fox walking through and leaving footprints. In this lesson the students will learn about perspective. Before you begin explain how the tree nearest to the viewer will be the biggest, the bottom of it’s trunk will be closest to the bottom of the page; and the trees that are further away will be smaller and the bottom of their trunks will be further from the bottom of the page. Also, in this lesson the students also learn about shadows. The image we are making is supposed to take place in the evening so all the shadows are long and point in the same direction.
To demonstrate these concepts I drew this simple picture on the board. As you can see, the stick figure people get smaller and smaller as they get further away, also the further away they are the higher the person appears on the page. (Jut like the tree trunks in this assignment.) The drawing also displays directional shadows like in the lesson. In this image the direction of the sun determines the direction of the shadows, in our forest image there is no spot for a sun, but the students can see the idea in this image.
Week 1:
1- Glue the large strip of paper vertically about 1-2 inches from the bottom of the page. (It will probably hang off the top, students can cut off this small tab of paper later.)
2-
Glue the 2 or 3 medium trees onto the paper, the bottom of their trunks
should be about 2 inches higher than the bottom of the large tree’s
trunk.
3- Glue the 2 or 3 small trees onto the paper about 1-2 inches higher than the medium trees.
4-
Cut off any bits of paper that hang off the top of the page, keep the
extra pieces of the small half inch thick trees and use them to make branches
for the large tree. (The rest of the trees do not get branches.)
5-
Take a white oil pastel and hold it sideways, drag it over
each of the trees to give them a bit of a grayish texture.
Week 2:
1- Lightly watercolor diagonal shadows for all the trees. Remind students that all the shadows need to go in the same direction and that they should touch the bottom of the tree trunks and go all the way to the edge of the page.
2- Put the papers on the drying rack, they should be dry by the time we need them again.
3-
Have students choose red or orange paper to draw their fox on. Younger
grades can just choose either a red or orange paper with a fox printed onto it.
4- (Younger grades can skip this step.) Draw the fox. Follow these instructions:
a: rounded rectangle, this will be the body
b: circle for the head
c: triangle for nose.
d: 2 triangles for ears
e: elongated football shape for tail
f: 4 rectangular legs
5- Cut the fox out, and flip over to side with no pencil marks
6-
Use the black sharpie to draw the nose and eyes, and color the feet black.
Use the white oil pastel to color the tip of the tail white.
7- Get the page with the forest off the drying rack.
8-
Glue the fox onto the forest. Explain that the fox’s feet must be
lower than the trunk of any tree that his body overlaps; or the fox will appear to be levitating.
9-
Use sharpies to add footprints where the fox had walked across the
snow. (Usually the simpler the footprints are the better.)
10- Lightly watercolor a shadow for the fox, match the direction of the shadow to the direction of the trees’ shadow.
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| Macy and Karissa |
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| Dax |
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