Winter trees glimpse

What do you need?

• three colors cardboard 15 by 20 cm
• ruler
• pencil
• cutting blade
• cutting mat
• double sided foamtape

What should you do you?

1. Draw a rectangle on the three pieces of cardboard 2 cm from the edges. 
2. Draw wintertrees in the rectangles. The trunk on the bottom, the branches must reach the left, right or upper edge. 
3. Cut the parts between the branches/trunk and the frame. 
4. Use double sided foam tape to paste the three windows together. The lightest color in the front, the darkest color on the back.

Works of art are made by students of grade 6. 

Winter mittens and cap

What do you need?

• colored construction paper
• markers
• white sheet
• glue
• scissors
• oil pastel

What should you do?

1. Draw a face and color it with oil pastels. Be sure the eyes are not on top of the head, but in the middle. The space between the two eyes is as wide as an eye.
2. Cut mittens and a hat from colored paper (or trace templates first and cut them). 
3. Draw patterns on hat and mittens with a marker. The patterns on both mittens should be similar, as well as the patterns on the hat.
4. Paste hat and mittens on the drawing. Make sure the thumbs point to each other!

Drawings made by students of grade 2. 

Snowman close ups

What do you need?

• grey drawing paper 15 by 15 cm
• oil pastels
• glue
• scissors
• colored construction paper for background 

What should you do?

1. Take three pieces of grey drawing paper. 
2. Draw a snowman's face or part of the face from different points of view: frontal, of the side, from above, from the bottom, upside down etc. 
3. Color with oil pastels. Of course the colors of all drawings have to be the same. 
4. Outline everything with black oil pastel.
5. Pate the close ups on a colored background.

Drawings made by students of grade 6.  

Stormy winter night

Inspired by Vincent van Gogh's painting Starry Night students make their own stormy winter night! 

What do you need? 

• drawing sheet 
• pencil
• oil pastels 
• liquid watercolor paint
• brush

What should you do? 

1. Lay the drawing sheet widthwise in front of you.
2. Draw the head of a surprised looking snowman's in the corner. 
3. Draw his scarf fluttering in the wind.
4. Draw his blown-off hat floating through the air.  
5. Color everything with oil pastels
   
6. Draw spiral shapes in the air with oil pastels. 
7. Paint the drawing with liquid watercolor but leave the edges white.  

Drawings made by students of grade 4. 

Come on, let's make a snowman!

In advance: 

By choosing an incomplete snowman, students are forced to draw big. An additional advantage is that there remains some to imagine: what would your snowman look like if he filled the complete sheet?

Students have to start coloring with white. This is to prevent other colors will mix with white and to be sure the white crayons will remain white! 

What do you need?

• blue construction paper 
• oil pastels
• pencil
• white tempera
• stencil brush

What should you do?

1. Sketch a part of a snowman. 
2. Sketch the hat and scarf and other items too. 
3. Color the drawing, starting with white oil pastel. 
4. Outline everything with black oil pastel. 
5. Make snowflakes around the snowman with white tempera paint and a stencil brush.

Drawings made by students of grade 7.