Candy Cane Drawings

This is a great end of year/Christmas activity for older students. Inspired by this post at 'A Faithful Attempt', I had my grade 6 and 7 students create a tonal drawing of a candy cane using coloured pencils. This was a great project to review drawing techniques like using curved lines and implying light and shade by creating tonal variance to describe a rounded object.

Students love seeing these take form and appear to pop out from the page. Handing out some real candy canes as inspiration is also sure sweeten the deal!

Sunburst Snowflakes

 

Around Christmas time I showed grade ones how to make paper snowflakes. As it doesn't snow in Australia, paper snowflakes are about as close as it gets. To more closely reflect an Australian Christmas, I decided ours would be sunbursts rather than snowflakes.

I asked the children to trace a circle onto white paper and then paint their circle using warm colours like the sun. After folding and cutting we glued these onto black paper and added glitter. 

I like these just as much as the traditional white snowflakes - what do you think?