Whirling leaves

What do you need?

• white drawing sheet 
• watercolor paint
• brushes
• jar with water
• small and thick black marker
• construction paper for background
• glue

Before
Ask students to take flat dried leaves. 

What should you do?

1. Chooses a leave and outline it several times with a pencil. Let them whirl down from the tree. Make sure some leaves go over the edge; these will later be finished on the background.
2. Paint the leaves with watercolor paint. Use water to dillute the paint less or more. Choose warm fall colors and try to make transitions in the colors by using wet in wet technique.
3. Paint the background blue. Use again the wet in wet technique, and/or choose for wet on dry. You don't have to paint exactly against the leaves, they will be outlined later.
4. Leave the work to dry and paste it on a colored background. 
5. Outline the leaves with a thick black marker. Use the fine marker for the veins. Don't stop with outlining and drawing veins when you reach the background, but go on with it there.

Works of arde made by students of grade 6.

Autumn leaves mandala

What do you need?

• white drawing sheet 
• compasses
• pencil
• oil pastels

What should you do?

1. Draw a circle with a diameter of 20 cm. 

2. Draw within about 1 cm another circle (the edge of the mandala).
3. Cut out and fold into 8 pieces.
4. Draw against one of the folds half a leaf with black oil pastel.

5. Fold the sheet and press firmly with your hand to get a print of the leaf on the other side of the fold. Trace this half leaf with black oilpastel. 

7. Draw the other leaves in the same way.
8. Color leaves and background with oil pastels. Color the edge with a nice pattern.

Artworks made by students of grade 6.

It's warm blanket time!

What do you need?

• colored paper for background
• brown paper 
• leftovers of colored and white paper 
• square white paper
• watercolor paint + brushes
• crayons
• black marker
• scissors and glue

Before
Divide this lesson over more moments. Consider in advance whether you will give students a template of the bear's head or whether they' ll have to draw it themselves. 

What should you do?

Folding and painting: 

1. For the blanket: fold the white sheet into16 squares. 
2. Paint each square in a different color. 
3. Let dry. 
4. Draw stripes with a crayon on the folds of the squares like on a patchwork blanket. 

Cutting:

1. Draw a bear's head on brown paper and cut out (or trace the template and cut out)
2. Legs: cut four ovals out of brown paper. 
3. Snout: cut a circle out of colored paper. 
4. Ears: cut two half circles out of colored paper. 
5. Eyes: cut two small circles out of white paper. 

Pasting and drawing:

1. Stick the hind legs on the colored sheet. 
2. Stick the blanket so that legs come out from underneath.
3. Stick the head halfway on the blanket and the front legs underneath.  
4. Stick snout, eyes and ears on the head.
5. Draw nose, whiskers and pupils with a black marker. 

Works of art made by students of grade 1.