created by Madison18328 in Grade 2 at
Becky-David Elementary School
from school project "Design Your Own Treehouse"
art id #44130422
About this School Project (Design Your Own Treehouse)
We are working on the learning objective: I can design a building that includes a roof, walls, door, windows and surface materials. With this drawing assignment I asked my second graders to design the tree house of their dreams. We looked at a number of different types of homes and tree houses so they had some ideas to start with. We looked at the materials that they were made from, the colors, roof, door and window styles. We then sketched our design while practicing using a ruler for all straight lines. Once the sketch was complete, we talked individually about the style and surface materials before redrawing the design onto large white paper. The structure was drawn near the top of the paper and colored with colored pencils. A tree was added second. The branches were traced from tag-board patterns. The tree trunk and additional items like a ladder and background were drawn last. Payons or watercolor crayons were used to add color to the outline of the tree. Plain water was used to drag the color from the edges of the tree to the inside to fill in completely. This lesson idea was shared with me by Sherry Sanning from Garrett Elementary.
