Space Pictures
Grade Levels: K - 3
Objectives
- Students will experiment with new art techniques.
Materials
- 12" x 18" white construction paper
- Crayons
- Thin black tempura paint
- Wide paint brushes
Procedures
- Instruct each student to draw a space picture using stars, moons, planets, flames from rockets, spaceships, etc.
- Remind students to color very heavily with the crayons (not pressing heavily but going over the drawing with the crayon several times). Some areas should be solid color.
- Paint over the picture with the thin, runny black paint to make the background look like outer space.
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HINTS:
- The paint should be thick enough to turn the paper black, but thin enough to run off the crayoned parts.
- Cover a table with newspaper for three or four students to paint at once.
Excerpt from Art Today and Every Day by Jenean Romberg and Miriam Rutz.
