Step 1: Gather Supplies

• A piece of paper
• Crayons

Step 2: Begin Drawing Yourself

• For this project, you are going to use your imagination to turn yourself into something else!
• Begin drawing yourself, look at how I’m using shapes and lines to create a person
• What shape is my head? My neck and arms?

Step 3: Finish Drawing Yourself

• Continue drawing yourself, adding legs and feet
• When you have your body all done, start adding your face and hair
• Remember, you’re going to be using your imagination so you can change your hair if you want! I gave myself some purple hair

Step 4: Use your imagination!

• Julian used his imagination to turn himself into a mermaid. What will you turn yourself into?
• I decided to be an astronaut, someone who explores outer space.
• Once you figure out what you want to be, begin adding clothes, maybe even a mermaid tail or dragon wings!

Step 5: Getting Ready to Color

• Before you begin coloring, remember, three important things while you color

• 1. Color in the lines
• 2. Fill in the space
• 3. Color in one direction

Step 6: Begin to Color

• Now you can start to color yourself!
• As you color, think about what you’re going add in the background. Where will your imagination take you?

Step 7: Add Your Background

• Once you finish coloring yourself, create your background.
• Where does your imagination take you? Are you flying, underwater, in a volcano, at a friends house?
• I drew myself in outer space with some spaceships and stars

Step 1: Gather Supplies

• A piece of paper
• A pencil and markers (you can use coloring pencils or markers if you don’t have markers)
• 1 or 2 objects
• A ruler (you can also use the side of a book or any other straight edge)

Step 2: Create Sections and Place Your Object(s)

• Using your ruler, divide your paper into sections
• I used mostly triangle and square shaped sections
• Once you have at least ten or so lines, go ahead and put your objects on your table

Step 3: Draw your objects

• Think of each section like a puzzle piece. Each part is different but they will all come together to form your object
• I started drawing my flower pot in one section, but stopped when I reached my line
• I started drawing my flower pot again when I reached a different section, and drew it slightly from a different angle

Step 4: Keep drawing your objects

• Keep drawing!
• I added my flowers and leaves
• Now I’m ready to draw my sneaker

Step 5: Getting Ready to Color

• Before you begin coloring, remember, three important things while you color

• 1. Color in the lines

• 2. Fill in the space

• 3. Color in one direction

Step 6: Begin Coloring in Your Objects

• As you color in your objects, try to color in one direction.
• This will help your colors to stay neat and not streak or scribble.

Step 1: Gather Supplies

• A piece of paper
• A pencil, crayons, markers, or colored pencils
• 3 objects (Make sure you as a grown-up if you use something that is not yours! I chose a small box, a plant, and a watering can)
• A table to put your objects on

Step 2: Place your objects

• Put your objects on the table in way that they overlap
• This means some might be in the front, some might be in the back, one might be on the left, one might be on the right
• Can you tell which object is the closest? Which one is the furthest? What is my background? What is my foreground?

Step 4: Place your objects on your paper

• As you are drawing, make sure you are looking at your paper AND at your objects! That’s an important step when you draw from real life.
• If one object is in front of the other, you won’t be able to see the whole thing, so don’t draw it!
• Look at where the objects are. The front? Back? Left? Right?

A Helpful Tip!

• Remember, you want to overlap!
• I placed my objects close together on the table, one in front of the other so that’s how they need to be drawn
• Yours might not be as close together, but make sure you overlap!

Step 5: Finish your drawing in pencil

• Once you have drawn your three objects on the table, now you can go back and add details.
• Use your eraser to erase any of the table line that goes through your objects

Step 6: Color your drawing

• Now you can finish your drawing, color it in!
• Don’t forget to color in your table too, and if you have something in the background, you can it in
• Don’t forget to submit your art when you’re done!

• Scissors (make sure you ask a grown-up
• Paper
• Crayons or markers
• Stapler (make sure you ask a grown-up to help you) OR tape

• After you fold your paper, grab a crayon and make a line on the side of your folded paper, NOT the folded side

• This will help guide you as you cut
• Cut ON the folded side, up until the line you drew and stop
• Make small cuts, about 10 or so small sections, about an inch thick

• After you've cut your sections, unfold your paper. Grab your markers and crayons and begin decorating!

• I decided to create a spring theme, choosing lots of bright colors and using things found in nature such as flowers, sun, clouds, etc.
• Try creating patterns using shapes, colors, different kinds of lines
• Once you have your sections, you can also decorate the area in the line you drew earlier to mark your scissors stopped cutting.

• Begin folding/rolling your lantern together, going the opposite way, width wise
• Ask an adult to help you staple (or tape) the top of the lantern, connecting each edge together
• Do the same for the bottom

• On another sheet of paper, cut a small thin strap for your handle
• Decorate it as well!
• Ask an adult to help staple or tape it to the top of your lantern, attach the other side of your handle to the other side of the top of your lantern

On the top half of your paper, draw your buildings and other objects that you might see in the sky.

On the bottom half of your paper, draw the ground.

In my drawing I drew a side walk and grass.

Cut your second sheet of paper in half and begin drawing buildings on this sheet.

I also added some trees in front of my buildings.

Using scissors, cut out the buildings on your second sheet of paper.

• Fold the bottom of your second sheet of paper. Make your fold as long as the tip of your thumb. You want your paper to be able to stand up on its own.

• Practice standing your paper up on a table to see if it will stand. If it does not stand on its own, make your fold larger.

• When your paper is folded, add glue to your fold.

• Attach your second paper to the ground of your first paper and hold it for 5 seconds.

• Remember, you do not need a lot of glue to stick your paper down. Less is more!

Wait for your paper to completely dry.

Now you are finished!

What a cool 3-D city!

Remember to submit a picture of your work.