Chicken challenge

Use shapes to create your own artwork

Student visual arts resource developed by The Arts Unit

Kindergarten to Year 2 visual arts

You will:

Welcome to the class

Duration: 00:19

You'll need:

paper to draw on
scrap paper with different colours and textures
pencils, textas, crayons or paints
glue stick
materials to add detail to your artwork: feathers, leaves, or ribbon – be creative!

Watch The Shapes Song and sing along to the words as you get to know them.

The Shapes Song

Duration: 01:50

Look around the room you are in.

How many shapes can you find?

Shapes: arrow, circle, heart, star, square, triangle, diamond and rectangle

Look at this 2019 Operation Art artwork by Kindergarten student, Oliver Rossington, titled 'Chicken'.

What shapes do you see?

Chicken

Oliver RossingtonOperation Art 2019

Look at the chicken below.

Can you find 3 different shapes?

Create your own chicken artwork

Using simple shapes like circles, triangles, rectangles, ovals, squares and diamonds, create your own chicken drawing.
Colour in your drawing. You might like to use coloured pencils, crayons, textas or paint.
You could also use leaves, feathers, ribbon or other craft supplies you have to add texture to your artwork.

Here are some examples to get you started.