After drawing in pencil they "traced" the pencil with white glue. I love using this technique! The glue resist gives awesome black outlines and "borders" for the chalk which is done the following week. The kids love to trace with glue. What can I say?!
The following week I gave them all sorts of colored chalk (we prefer the Crayola chalk- the colors are SO vibrant and show up so opaque on black paper!!!) and they went to town. Some kids wanted to keep the lizard sort of "life-like" (read: greens and browns) while most kids wanted to go wild with pinks or blues. Either way, they turned out fabulous and they were the talk of the school whilst hanging on bulletin boards!
While the chalk is VERY messy, everyone just loved how they came out and didn't mind a little mess at the end :)
Happy creating!
These look great! Out of curiosity, did you use sidewalk chalk or chalk pastels?
ReplyDeletewe used regular crayola chalk :) not oil pastels. i don't have any of the boxes---they're emptied into trays---to look at the label for you! the chalk comes in really bright, vibrant colors, but i'm sure you could use oil pastels with the same effect! good luck!!!
ReplyDeleteJust wondering how you taught the kids to draw these. Did you have a hand out, or did you demo the drawing process?
DeleteI have an activ board and a document camera and that is how I demo projects. I really just have the kids the general shape of the body and tail, then showed them the options they had from there :) good luck!
DeleteThese turned out great! What a cute project!
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