FUN WITH SUNS DRAWING ART ACTIVITY - A VISUAL GUIDE FOR FAST FINISHERS
Another helpful Visual guide to support early finishers in your self directed drawing centre. Fun with Suns is a perfect summer themed quick, bright art project to use as a guided wall mural collaborative design for your back to school season. Also a great self-directed early finisher option or sub lesson.
Do you run exploratory art stations or fast finisher art centres in your classroom or art room? Then you are always needing new ideas like this one, for independent activities that students will enjoy.
I started creating Visual Guides for my students to use independently, step-by-step for mini projects to work on in the drawing centre. Projects that build technical skills and media experience while allowing personal interpretation. These Visual Guides work so well that I wanted to share them with you too.
When students can independently work at a choosing centre, you can get on with supporting those students that need more help. Also fabulous when you have early finishers that need an activity to go on with, while the rest of your class finishes the current class project. Or use as a quick filler activity for those extra sessions and works well for a sub lesson too.
I have used this project to create a class mural for our art show, too.
Created for my classroom and suitable for Upper Elementary and Middle School students in 4th - 7th grades.
Praise from teachers who have used one of my other Visual Guides for their art Centres (TPR review). Shaggy Dog COLLAGE
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "A great resource, thank you for creating a engaging project."
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Absolutely adorable! This resource was simple and easy to use but created awesome art! I used this for a summer camp with kids K-6th, and adapted as needed but all the dogs (and a few bison and llamas) came out well with the kids proud of their work. "
This Visual Guide for a drawing based art activity of Fun with Suns was created for my drawing centre, and includes 2x project guides, useful as a supporting activity for the following art station guide, available HERE...
A Guide for Art Stations or Centres in Elementary Grades, includes:
- The guide cover
- What is Sculpture
- History of Sculpture x2
- Materials List
- Making a Sculpture
- Can you make a Family Tree (a visual guide for this and other sculpture lessons is also available HERE)
- Sculpture clean-up
- Teacher Information
- Teacher instructions
- Blanks slides for you to add your own instructions x2
And a bonus slide with a recommended lesson for your next whole class drawing lesson.
❤️ If you would like more Visual Guides for independent art activities to use in your art stations or centres, please contact me through the website.
✅ Use to build independent prior knowledge before starting a whole class DRAWING project
✅ Guides new learning for students who have not experienced DRAWING before
✅ Consolidates knowledge for & extends students who have some DRAWING experience
✅ Great early finishers self-directed activity in a choosing centre (4th grades and up
✅ Easy to follow Sub lesson
✅ Last minute filler activity for extra lesson times
✅ Quick guided drawing activity for younger grades (1st - 3rd grades)
More Art station set up cards & scaffolded Visual Guides for mini projects are available for your art centres HERE, more being added all the time. Station themes include:
1. Sculpture
2. Papier-Mache
3. Clay
4. Wax Resist
5.Collage
6. Paint
7. and more resources for your Drawing Centre
- Cubist Trees
- Stained Glass Names
- Crazy Hair Day
❤️ Why should I run art centres in my classroom? Isn't that just for art teachers?
The short answer is NO.
We can no longer omit art explorations from our classrooms.
Art can make a powerful contribution to our students' mental health
In addition to helping students develop a number of important skills, free expression (like using art stations or art centers) is also good for overall health and well-being. Giving young children a creative outlet can help relieve stress and work through things happening in their lives. By encouraging artistic expression, you can help facilitate further learning and engagement. Making art can help children to deal with a wide range of mental health issues and psychological stress, like anxiety.
View further information about this topic from Michigan State University HERE
✅ Print the art activity Visual Guide's step-by-step thumbnail pages - full size and in color (colour), laminate back to back and add to the DRAWING station for students to use independently.
View the preview to fully understand the potential of this art project visual guide for your Drawing programme.
✅ Introduce this Fun with Suns Drawing art activity to your students by sharing the PDF slides with full size photos, on your large screen, asking students to infer the steps, clarifying any misunderstandings, while explaining your expectations. Then leave them to it and watch them grow in responsibility and self management. You can even put some students in charge of the clean up section on a rotation basis.
Select VIEW > enter full screen for presentation mode. Then use the arrow keys on your keyboard to drive a smooth slideshow experience, like a pro :)
❤️ Take the stress out of prepping activities for art stations,
❤️ Avoid endless hours of research and resource creation
❤️ Avoid possible frustrations for students working on your guided DRAWING art projects, that result from not having time to explore a media or technique, beforehand, and build that crucial prior knowledge and confidence with this medium.
❤️ Have available as an early finisher activity between projects to keep your students engaged and learning
❤️ Why should you trust my lessons?
I am both a general ed. classroom teacher and currently practising as a Visual Art and Digital Media specialist educator, teaching students from ages 4-12, at a primary school. I do this every day, just like you! I’ve done it all for you and trialed these art station guides in my own art centres.
❤️ How will this resource help busy teachers, who are nervous about teaching art?
No worries - I’ve got you covered.
This visual guide includes the materials list and teacher information, giving you the confidence to run the activity in your own classrooms.
⏰ How long should I run an art station for?
If you are an art teacher, then you can make that call based on your programme. For classroom teachers, I recommend that an art center stays open for at least a week, prior to starting a guided, whole class art project with that medium.
Then for another week after completing that project, so that early finishers can further experiment independently.
View the previews above, then add to cart and smile, knowing you can set up & run your art station with confidence.
❤️ So what is special about this resource?
This art activity introduces students to the media and techniques of Drawing. It uses easily available resources (coloured pencils or felts) and lends itself to creative diversity.
Students get to express their unique ideas through personal choices and modifications, while working at the DRAWING art stations, bringing personal creative ideas to the activity.
Praise from teachers who have used one of my multi-lesson GUIDED DRAWING art project plans (available through TPT):
→ Element of LINE PETS inspired by Laurel Burch one day art lesson K - 2nd grade
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Made my planning so much easier as I was getting tired of my old lessons. Everything you need is there- just pop up on your screen and you’re good to go!"
→ Zebra, Elephant, Giraffe AFRICA Art Project with video guided lessons 3rd - 6th
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "My students loved this resource! It was great to have 3 different components to the art piece that the students needed to consider in their planning. The drawing tutorials were brilliant. All the students were proud as punch of their animal drawings. Thank you!" (TPT buyers)
View the Previews above, then add to cart and smile, knowing you have just saved yourself heaps of time and effort!
✅ Where can I find more art lessons like this one on this site?
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