Happy new year!

What do you need?

1. white drawing sheet 
2. water paint color
3. brushes
4. liquid water color paint
5. crayons

What should you do?

1. Draw some Dutch canal houses. 
2. Color them with water color paint. 
3. Use crayons to draw fireworks. 
4. Paint the sky dark blue with liquid water color leaving the edges white. 

Works of art are made by students of grade 6.

Happy new year

What do you need? 

• white drawing sheet 
• blue liquid water color paint 
• brush
• crayons
• black construction paper
• leftovers of yellow and orange paper
• yellow chalk pastel

What should you do? 

1. Draw fireworks with crayons on a white sheet. 
2. Paint the whole sheet with blue liquid water color paint. 
3. Let dry.
4. Cut a skyline out of half a sheet of black paper. 
5. Paste the skyline on the blue sheet. 
6. Cut windows from yellow or orange paper.
7. Draw a yellow chalk line on the roofs and smudge it.   
   

Works of art made by students of grade 3, 4 and 5.

Snowmen

What do you need?

• blue construction paper
• oil pastels

What should you do?

1. Draw three or more overlapping snowmen wearing colorful scarves. 
2. Color with oil pastel.
3. Outline with black.
4. Draw snowflakes around the snowmen.  

Drawings made by students of grade 4. 

Winter tree in warm-cool colors

 What do you need?

• drawing paper
• crayons
• watercolor paint
• black tempera 
• brushes
• jar with water

What should you do?

1. With crayon: draw a horizon line.
2. Draw a tree trunk from the bottom of the sheet. 
3. Draw branches that touch the edges of the sheet. 
4. Draw a pattern in the landscape below the horizon line. 
5. With watercolor paint: paint the sky. 
6. Paint the surfaces between the branches in warm or cool colors. 
7. Paint the surfaces in the landscape: warm if you first chose cool, cool if you first chose warm. 
8. With tempera: paint the branches and trunk black. 

Works of art made by students of grade 4.

Elements of art: color (warm and cool), space, line (pattern)

Christmas carolers

What do you need? 

1. green construction paper A2 size
2. scissors and glue
3. leftovers paper or Christmas scrapbook paper
4. fine markers in black and silver

Before:
Christmas carolers are individuals or groups who sing traditional holiday songs, known as carols, during the Christmas season, often traveling from house to house or performing in public spaces.

What should you do? 

1. Cut the parts of the singers: head with the nose up and open mouth, thin arms and legs, dress or suit and black shoes or boots.
2. Cut a music book and fold it. 
3. Draw the title on it: Christmas Carols.
4. Draw some staves with musical notes.
5. Glue the parts on the large green sheet. Paste three-dimensional if possible: paste the dress with folds; arms come out of sleeves holding the 3D pasted music book. 
6. Draw nostrils with a black marker and shoe laces with the silver one.
7. Make a large group work of these Christmas carolers!

Works of art made by students of grade 6. 

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. 

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.