Bear Visual Art Project Guide Draw and Collage Activity for Quick Skill Lessons
Explore drawing Bears with shaggy coats using this Draw and Collage activity for a quick art lesson. This Visual Guide art project was created for early elementary to mid elementary students, to explore drawing bears, combined with layering collage techniques. Students will work with concepts based in the elements of art like line, shape and texture. For older students, this is a great skill review or a self-directed bonus activity at your independent mixed-media station, when you have early finishers.
For younger students, run as a teacher guided lesson to develop knowledge and skills with guided drawing, while exploring the use of painted paper remnants to create fun collage projects. Use either realistic or imaginative colours (colors) for the fur. Great option for end of the term when you want to use up what you have in the classroom and as a Sub lesson for those unforeseen sick days.
The final product makes a great display for your classroom, hallways or art shows. A wonderful visual way to make learning connections with themes like conservation or animal habitats. We connected ours to our school production of the Jungle Book story, also making stalking tigers to complement our bears.
Tiger lesson available HERE on TPT
✅ Suitable for early to Mid Elementary, and some Upper Elementary level students in 1st - 5th grades.
Do you run exploratory art stations or fast finisher art centers (centres) in your classroom or art room? Then you are always needing new ideas for independent activities that students will enjoy. I started creating Visual Guides for my students to use independently, step-by-step for mini projects they use at the drawing table. 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 center (centre), you can get on with supporting those students that need more help. Also fabulous when you have early finishers that need a bonus activity to go on with, while the rest of your class finishes the current class project. Or use as a filler activity for those extra sessions that happen when events mess with our timetables. Works well for a sub lesson too.
Praise from teachers who have already used one of my Painting Visual Guides, available on TPT here:
GUSTAV KLIMT'S GOLDEN CATS Art Activity Visual Guide for PAINT SKILLS Centre
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "My students loved painting the cat and adding golden details with extra mixed media materials."
How will this product add value to your art curriculum?
✅ Use to build independent prior knowledge before starting a whole class project for DRAWING and COLLAGE
✅ Guides new learning for students who have little experience with Collage
✅ Consolidates knowledge for & extend students who have experience with Collage
✅ Great early finishers activity in a choosing centre (center) between projects for older students
✅ Easy to follow Sub lesson
✅ Last minute filler activity for those extra lesson times
✅ Quick guided lesson with stunning outcomes in younger grades
Print this art lesson Visual Guide's step-by-step thumbnail pages - full size and in colour (color), laminate back to back and add to your art station for older students to use independently. Or use as your teaching guide for a directed, skill based lesson with younger grades.
View the preview to fully understand the potential of these art lesson visual guides for you or your independent learners and early finishers.
Introduce the art lesson to you students by sharing the PDF slides with the full size photos, on your large screen, asking students to infer the steps, clarifying any misunderstandings and explaining your expectations. Then leave them to it and watch them grow in responsibility and self management. You can even put students in charge of the clean up at your art station, to further build that responsibility.
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 :)
❤️ 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! My experience and knowledge are up to date with current practise.
❤️ 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.
❤️ So what is special about this resource?
This art activity introduces students to guided drawing and the media collage with painted paper remnants. It uses easily available resources (black markers and art pencils) and lends itself to creative diversity.
Students get to express their unique ideas through personal choices and modifications, while working through the project.
❤️ Take the stress out of prepping activities for art stations or subs
❤️ Avoid endless hours of research and resource creation
❤️ Avoid possible frustrations for students working on your main guided 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
❤️ Great quick time-filler for end of term
⏰ 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 station 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.
This short project will take 1-3 lessons depending on the paper size and media, age and skill level of your students.
❤️ Why should I run art centres (centers) 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
View the previews above, then add to cart and smile, knowing you can set up & run your art station with confidence.
Praise from teachers who have used one of my longer multi-lesson Guided, Painted Paper Collage Art Project plans:
Earth Day Art project for COLLAGE BIRDS inspired by Pete Cromer 2nd - 4th grade
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "My students loved creating these mixed media birds with painted paper and other collage materials."
This Visual Guide for a collage art activity of Shaggy Bears is useful as a supporting activity for the following art station guide, available HERE...
→ What Is COLLAGE Guide for Art Stations or Centers Elementary Grades
which includes:
- The guide cover
- What is Collage
- Famous collage artists
- Materials List
- Making a collage
- Can you make a name collage which also includes a QR code link to my instructional video
- Collage clean-up
- Teacher Information x2
- Teacher instructions
Blanks slides for you to add your own instructions x2
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