How to Draw a Rhino

Week of April 20 - 24

Hello My Most Amazing Parents & Artists,

Thank you for sending me all the amazing pictures of your artist's spring bunnies. I love your creativity and imaginations!

The accommodation and enrichment activities from my last email and those listed below are just suggestions to help your child with age appropriate skills for their level. Some students need more, but you are not required to do any of them. I’m just looking for pictures of their drawings that they make from my videos, so follow along with me for this week's sketchbook art activity (inspired by Earth Day on Wednesday, April 22).

Connecting students to science, reading, math, and social studies (art history)

Elements of Art: line, shape, color, space

Principles of Design: pattern

Follow along with me for this week's sketchbook art activity:

How to Draw a Rhino

K3 & K4

tape your rhino drawing to a window, tape your child's paper to the window on top of yours, allow your child to trace the outlines, remove their picture so they can add patterns & color to their shapes (skills: tracing, identifying shapes, coloring neatly, fine motor, focus, patience)
use your imagination to draw & color your own rhino
read facts about rhinoceroses or a picture book about a rhino from the list below

Rhino's Great Big Itch by Natalie Chivers
Lulu is a Rhinoceros by Jason Flom
I Know a Rhino by Charles Fuge
A Rhino to the Rescue by Cleve Hicks
How the Rhino got his Skin by John Joven
Rhino in the House: The True Story of Saving Samia by Daniel Kirk

K5-3rd Grades

choose from the above
draw a rhino from any of the books listed above
make a rhino picture using only crayons, another in colored pencils, just markers, try oil pastels or paint
use your imagination to add your own colors and/or background details

4th-6th Grades

choose from all of the above
try drawing a realistic rhinoceros
draw a landscape with a rhino in Africa or at the zoo using crayons, markers, colored pencils, oil pastels or paint
read about the German artist Albrecht Durer and his woodcut, The Rhinoceros, 1515 and draw or paint a picture inspired by him

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