3rd Grade - Close-Up Insects

3rd grade students learned about close-up works of art. Using oil pastels and watercolors, they created fantastic insect drawings.

Objectives:

• Identify a close-up view
• Understand how to create a wax resist
• Create an artwork of a close-up view of an insect using oil pastels and watercolor

Vocabulary: close-up view, wax resist, habitat

Lesson:

• Draw an insect almost as large as the paper
• Add the insect's habitat around it. Remind the students that the insect is large, because it's close to the viewer. This means the habitat has to be large too.
• Color some details with oil pastels
• Paint with watercolor