Half chicken

In this lesson students draw one chicken together. 

What do you need? 

• drawing sheet 
• oil pastels
• blue liquid water color
• brush
• jar with water

What should you do? 

1. Fold a sheet in half.
2. Draw  half a chicken against the fold. 
3. Color with oil pastels. 
4. Draw with white oil pastel one or more eggs. 
5. Mark with two little lines the places where your classmate has to connect and draw a mark for the hight of the horizon line.
6. Give the sheet folded to your classmate; be sure he doesn't see your drawing. Tell him whether he should draw a head or a body. 
7. When your classmate is ready, unfold the sheet. Hilarious!
8. Paint the whole drawing with blue water color paint and lots of water. The oil pastels will resist the water.

Artworks made by students of grade 3.

Fancy chicken

 What do you need?

• drawing sheet A3 
• oil pastels
• tempera paint
• brushes
• colored paper for background 

What should you do?

1. Draw a horizon line on the drawing sheet. 
2. Draw a chicken.
3. Color with oil pastels in bright colors. 
4. Paint a background with tempera paint.

Works of art made  by students of grade 6.

What's in your egg?

 

What do you need?

1. white drawing sheet A5 
2. charcoal
3. yellow sheet for background 
4. hairspray

Surprise!
Imagine you crack your egg on Easter Sunday and it turns out to contain something completely different than egg white and egg yolk ... Draw this fantasy with charcoal on a white sheet. 

Practice first 
Never worked with charcoal? Then practice on a scrap paper first. 

Draw lines, blur them by swiping with your fingers, create shadows, erase the charcoal with a kneaded eraser. Charcoal stains quickly, so clean your  fingers regularly.

What should you do?

1. Draw two halves of an egg. 
2. Draw in between what you imagine is in the egg.  
3. Draw the surrounding. 
4. Fix your drawing with hairspray. 
5. Paste the drawing on a yellow sheet. 

Made by students of grade 3.

Charming chicken

What do you need?

• blue and yellow construction 
• oil pastels
• glue

What should you do?

1. Draw a chicken on the blue sheet, using the tutorial on How to draw a chicken. 
2. Color in bright colours. 
3. Draw a horizon line and color the ground. 
4. Draw something on the horizon line, for example a fence or farm. 
5. Tear the edges of the blue sheet and paste the chicken on a yellow sheet. 

Drawings made by students of grade 6.

Henhouse

Made by students from kindergarten

You need:

1. box
2. brown tempera paint
3. brush
4. paper plate
5. white paper 
6. red paper
7. black marker
8. straw

Paint the outside of the box with brown tempera paint. Fold the plate. Outline your hand and cut it twice out of a white sheet. Paste the hands on both sides of the chicken. Cut a comb and a beak out of red paper and paste them. Paste some feathers for the tail. 
Put the box on its side. Put some straw in the box and put the chicken in it. Stack the boxes of several students for a big hen house!

Easter eggs with lines

You need:

1. cardboard egg shape 10 cm high
2. pencil
3. white drawing sheet
4. several colour materials, like markers, colour pencils, crayons, chalk pastel 
5. coloured paper 20 by 14 cm
6. gekleurd papier 14 cm hoog, 20 cm breed
7. glue
8. scissors
9. fine black marker 

What kind of lines do we know? Let students draw them on the blackboard: straight - horizontal, vertical, diagonal; angular, like zig-zag and curved lines.
Students have to make four Easter eggs. Ouline the template with a pencil. Draw straight lines in the first egg, curved lines in the second one and zig-zag lines in the third one. The fourth egg may is made with lines of their own choice. Trace the lines with a fine black marker. Colour them with four different materials: colour pencils, markers, chalk pastel and crayons. Cut the eggs and paste them on a coloured sheet.

Made by students of grade 3

Patterned chicken

Benodigdheden:

1. white drawing sheet
2. piece of cardboard
3. black fine marker
4. red marker
5. scissors and glue

Cut a piece of cardboard from 7 by 7 cm. Draw a chicken and cut it out. Draw six squares (or less or more) on the drawing sheet from 7 by 7 cm.

Trace the chicken within the six squares. Colour the chicken, wing and background with patterns in black. Colour the beak and comb with red. Paste the chickens on a red background and decorate the edges with white eggs.

Easter bunny window

You need:

1. cardboard A4 size
2. carbon paper
3. cutter
4. cutting mat
5. glue
6. tissue paper
7. pattern (download)

Use carbon paper to copy the pattern on the cardboard. Cut the grey parts away. Paste tissue paper on the backside. Hang your bunny in the window.

Chickens like Andy Warhol

You need:

1. white drawing paper 21 by 14 cm
2. markers
3. piece of cardboard
4. scissors
5. pencil

Tell about Andy Warhol and show some of his artwork. 

Divide the sheet in six rectangles from 7 by 7 cm. Draw a chicken on cardboard and cut it out. Trace it six times. Colour everyting with markers in bright colours. Outline tall parts with a fine black marker. Draw legs and eyes.

Easter bunny

You need:

1. white drawing sheet A4 size
2. colour pencils
3. template for easter egg

Scetch an Easter bunny in the middle of the sheet. Cut an egg out of a piece of cardboard. Trace this egg so many times on your drawing sheet - also over the bunny - till it's competely full. Overlapping is required. Colour the bunny parts in warm colours, the background in cool colours.