Snowman Profiles

I'm always trying to think of new ways to encourage my younger students to draw big and fill up their entire paper.  I guess because they are so small, their frame of reference is also a bit small.  Every kid loves snowmen, right?!

For this project, I demonstrated on the board how to draw a LARGE capital "B" or "R" on the paper vertically (this will serve as the face and body of the snowman).  Then students added a sideways triangle inside the face to be the carrot nose.  Next, students painted the triangle nose orange, the face and body white, and then added more white to the side to be falling snow.  We put the artwork to dry.

The next time they came to class, we used oil pastels to add the details for the eyes, mouth, arm, scarf, and hat!