Hungry Caterpillar Drawing
Project Title: Hungry Caterpillar Drawing
Medium: Watercolor Pastel drawing & Painting
Narrative Project Grade Theme: Pollinators
Overview: Students will draw Fruits, flowers and food on outer folds and then a big caterpillar on the inside, they will practice brush work and add glue google eyes
Art Skills: Drawing, brushwork
Process: Students will draw pictures of food (fruit, flowers, other food) on the outer flaps of folded mixed media paper with watercolor pastels, then draw a BIG caterpillar on the inside. Students will gently blend the watercolor pastels with brushes and water, then glue on google eyes
Materials: folded mixed media paper, watercolor pastels, brushes, water, google eyes Tools Provided by Classroom: pencils, school glue
Vocabulary: pollinators, pests, metamorphosis
Multiple Subject Integration: natural science, color theory
*Please note that samples were made by teaching artists. Students will be encouraged to make their own versions of this project. Please DO NOT show students these samples in advance of the art lesson.
Description Summary: Today students had a special art lesson making very hungry caterpillars.