If you are drawing at home, choose one of videos to draw along with! Use whatever supplies you can find! If you have time, do more than one!
If you are drawing at home, choose one of videos to draw along with! Use whatever supplies you can find! If you have time, do more than one!
If you are creating art at home, you could also choose to do the lesson below! Watch the video of the book under the mittens before you start your project, and follow the steps below to create your project with whatever materials you have at home.
If you are creating art at home, you could also choose to do the lesson below! Watch the video of the book under the mittens before you start your project, and follow the steps below to create your project with whatever materials you have at home.
Lesson: The Mitten
Lesson: The Mitten
Trace your hand to create a mitten shape.
Decorate your mitten using shapes, lines and patterns.
Add your critter and begin to color your drawing.
Finish coloring and add swirls and snowflakes for final details in the background.
Lesson Examples and resources
Lesson Examples and resources
Click to watch our inspirational story!
Click to watch our inspirational story!
Our finished project!
Our finished project!
Learning target: I can create a drawing based on the book, The Mitten, by Jan Brett. I know that I can create pictures using shapes and lines.
Learning target: I can create a drawing based on the book, The Mitten, by Jan Brett. I know that I can create pictures using shapes and lines.
Success criteria:
Success criteria:
- I can trace my hand to create a mitten shape
- I can add designs to my mitten using shapes and lines
- I can add my critters
- I can color my design using markers, crayons and/or colored pencils
Colorado State Standards for the visual arts
Colorado State Standards for the visual arts
Standard 1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend / Standard 2. Envision and Critique to Reflect / Standard 3. Invent and Discover to Create / Standard 4. Relate and Connect to Transfer
Standard 1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend / Standard 2. Envision and Critique to Reflect / Standard 3. Invent and Discover to Create / Standard 4. Relate and Connect to Transfer
To view the Colorado state standards for the arts in more detail by grade level click on the link below