woensdag 10 december 2025

Silver and white Xmas tree

What do you need?
  • green construction paper
  • silver marker
  • white pencil
What should you do?
  1. Draw the trunk of a tree in the middle of the sheet, starting at the bottom and ending about 2 inches from the top. 
  2. Color the trunk with silver marker. 
  3. Draw lines from the trunk to the right and left. Don't use a ruler! The lines become shorter to create a triangle.  
  4. Draw Xmas decorations on the branches with a white pencil. 
Works of art made by students of grade 6. 

dinsdag 9 december 2025

Christmas Angels

What do you need?
  • black construction paper
  • pencils in yellow, gold, silver and white
What should you do?
  1. Draw some Christmas angels flying in a starry sky. 
  2. You may only use gold, silver, yellow and white pencils to color them. 
  3. Draw patterns in their dresses.  
  4. Finish the work with a frame: a simple straight line, a dot pattern or wavy line.

Works of art made by students of grade 4.

maandag 8 december 2025

Gingerbread man printing lesson

What do you need?
  • two pieces of linoleum 10 x 10 cm
  • lino knife
  • block printing ink
  • flat piece of plexiglass
  • linoleum roller
  • white sheets
  • lino press
  • scissors, glue
  • colored paper
What should you do?
  1. Draw a gingerbread cookie on both pieces of linoleum. 
  2. Cut away the outlines of the first linoleum.
  3. Cut away the background of the second one. 
  4. Print in one or two (Christmas) colors.
  5. Paste your prints on colored paper.
Works of art are made by students of grade 4.