After seeing Eric Carle's artwork in the book Mr. Seahorse, my 3rd graders made their own seahorses. Since we are in the middle of a unit on color, I used this lesson to teach the students about warm and cool colors. The students made warm color seahorses on cool color backgrounds. I did have seahorse templates available to trace if the students didn't feel comfortable drawing one on their own, but I encouraged them to only trace the hard parts. For example, if they struggled with drawing the head, they could trace a seahorse head, and then draw the body on their own.
Here is an image of Eric Carle's book. I think it's beautifully illustrated, and tells unique facts about seahorses in the text.
And, yes, I did get this idea on Pinterest! The pin that inspired my lesson has the seahorse decorated with beads and buttons, which I thought added some nice visual interest, so I let my students put sparkles on their seahorses. I know that sequins are craft supplies, and don't generally have a place in the fine arts world, but the kids enjoyed it, and it provided one last assessment of their learning of the warm/cool color concept, because they had to pick out the warm color sequins from a large tub of various colors.
Here is an image of Eric Carle's book. I think it's beautifully illustrated, and tells unique facts about seahorses in the text.
And, yes, I did get this idea on Pinterest! The pin that inspired my lesson has the seahorse decorated with beads and buttons, which I thought added some nice visual interest, so I let my students put sparkles on their seahorses. I know that sequins are craft supplies, and don't generally have a place in the fine arts world, but the kids enjoyed it, and it provided one last assessment of their learning of the warm/cool color concept, because they had to pick out the warm color sequins from a large tub of various colors.
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