Friendship Art Project #2 AT THE BEACH guided drawing lesson and 3D sculpture
The first weeks of school are all about building healthy friendships, and understanding / respecting friendship boundaries. This guided drawing lesson will create a background of the beach, folded into a 3D diorama, and free-standing puppets of themself and a friend. A perfect back to school activity for First -Third grade teachers. This is the first in a highly engaging series of guided drawing resources that you can either use independently of each other or use the entire bundle and offer your students even more choice. Each drawing guide is based on a place where we like to play with our friends. These include:
- My house
- The beach
- The playground
This resource will guide you and your students to draw the beach playdate option and provide many places in the lesson sequence where student choice will add originality to each student's artwork. All the while keeping the skills taught consistent across the class, to save your sanity. Each guide also includes the instructions for students to create the 2 figures - themself and their friend.
Each art lesson in this series has been tested and crafted to suit this age group of 6 - 7yr olds.
View the other drawing guides in this series:
- My Friend and I play at my house #1 - CLICK HERE
- My Friend and I play on the playground #3 - CLICK HERE
- My Friend and I Play - BUNDLE of all 3
- Pre-drawn print ready writing craft and colouring option for the classroom - CLICK HERE
This is a new product so please enjoy this review for another 3D Diorama project in my store:
3D SPACE Room Cubes Element of Art Project Drawing Lesson Plan
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ "I did this activity with K1 all the way to grade 7! Each class was enthralled with this. We eventually made a holiday one, and kids asked to do this again the next day! It was so fun! Any grade can do this! "
My art project guides are all in non-editable PDF presentation format, in landscape orientation to be screen friendly. The pacing guide demonstrates every step and includes bonus slides on:
- Materials list
- Information about forming healthy friendships
- Inspiration photos
- Step by step instructions and sequence photos of the process
- Self assessment and reflection sheets
The landscape format makes it easy to share the modelled steps on a large screen, with your students.
❤️ So what is special about this resource?
Let's play at the beach - Friendship Art Project , is NOT a superficial art or craft option. As a former classroom teacher and now a Visual Art specialist educator, I write lessons that encourage deeper, cross-curricular learning and make meaningful connections to other subject areas. This IS:
- a drawing tutorial that includes the concepts of line, shape, position, size and space (Math),
- supports student agency through choice
- makes cross-curricular links to Friendships, back to school, new beginnings, beach day and friend activities (Who We Are and How We Organise Ourselves - IB).
Students can express their unique ideas through personal choices and modifications, while working through the guided project. Pause the PDF presentation in places to discuss next steps with students, check understanding and explore potential student responses or modifications, bringing personal creative ideas to the tutorial. This addresses the Viewing & Responding to artwork objectives in a purposeful way.
❤️ Why should you trust my lessons?
I am a full-time Visual Art and Digital Media specialist educator, with years of experience 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 and I love sharing my project learnings to support you in your practise.
❤️ How will this resource help busy teachers, who are nervous about teaching art?
No worries - I’ve got you covered.
This lesson comes as a full colour PDF teacher guide, with a bumper 50+ slide deck, to share on your large screen with your students.
All project steps are clearly explained and photographed, from start to finish, giving you the confidence to deliver quality visual art lessons for multi-day projects, to your students.
Use in a series of consecutive lessons. Encourage students to follow choice options along the way and create their unique artwork, while being guided by the information in the slideshow.
❤️ Take the guesswork out of teaching art, or prepping activities for subs
❤️ Avoid endless hours of research and resource creation
❤️ No more epic fails that result from not having the time to test lessons or media yourself before teaching a project
I’ve done it all for you in this comprehensive teaching guide, road-tested with my own students.
❤️ All the materials & skills are also clearly listed for you. It’s like having an art specialist with you in your classroom.
The PDF slides are intentionally designed in landscape orientation, to share with your students. This extra visual support will prove useful, particularly for young learners developing independence, and will also save you from having to repeat the same instructions, over and over again.
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 :)
No printing required
Encourage students along the way, to follow choice options and create their unique artwork, while being guided by the information on the slides.
⏰ How long will this project take to finish?
This art project can be completed in 3-6 lessons, depending on the age and skill of students and the size of paper /media/ style you or your students choose, and whether you run guided drawing lessons before starting the project.
Chunk into smaller manageable lessons, as needed.
View the previews above, then add to cart and smile, knowing you will soon have beautiful artwork on the walls and students glowing with pride!
A great companion resource for sculpture, to complement this art project
CLAY FISH Art Lessons for Sea or Ocean Theme Ceramics Sculpture Projects
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ "Great resource, step by step. Saved me time and the students loved it. Their projects turned out great."
✅ What knowledge, techniques and skills will my students learn from this art tutorial?
- Learn to draw and compose with shapes & lines
- Gain knowledge about art techniques when using felts & pencils
- Gain knowledge about & inspiration from family pastimes, like playdates with friends
- Follow a tutorial for guidance - listening skills, visual discrimination, sequencing
- Develop fine-motor & technical skills for using a range of art tools
- Respond to art created by artists and by other students
- Reflect on own knowledge, skills, progress and artwork - using the included student sheets
✅ That sounds great! So what about the Visual Art focus in this lesson?
- Introduce the art elements of LINES, SHAPES, SPACE, TEXTURE & VALUE
- Build skills for both observational & guided drawing
- Explore art making that expresses new learning and personal experiences
- Build skills for using a range of art media & techniques
- Stretch & Explore (Studio Habits)
- Develop Craft, Engage & Persist, Express ideas (Studio Habits)
- Reflect (Studio Habits) on personal development as an artist
- Make connections between culture and art to understand the art community (Studio Habits)
View the Previews above, then add to cart and smile, knowing you have just saved yourself heaps of time and effort!
✅ Is this product available on TPT?
Yes - you can find this product in my TPT store - One Teacher's Journey - HERE
✅ Where can I find more art lessons like this one?
→ You can browse all my art lessons and support resources provided as PDF presentation lesson HERE: VISUAL ART STORE
→ If you would prefer the added support of guided video tutorials, browse my growing collection in this custom category HERE: ART LESSONS WITH VIDEO TUTORIALS
→ For more early elementary Art lessons, click HERE: Art Lesson Plans K-2
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