I got the idea for this lesson from the MaryMaking blog, and wanted to give it a try! My second graders loved this. The only change I made was painting the backgrounds. We learned about Wayne Thiebaud- there are some good books Delicious (I will post author soon!) and Counting with Wayne Thiebaud. There is also a video from CBS Sunday morning about Thiebaud- I googled it. After looking at his work and brainstorming as many "sweet treats" as we could, I had the students chose one paint color mixed with a big glob of white paint (good way to introduce tints too!). We talked about how the thick paint looked like frosting. They filled their entire page that first day. Second day, we learned contour line drawing and drew an outline of our sweet treat on a notecard. Next we cut it out and used it as a tracer on our background. Lastly, they used oil pastels to color in and add the cast shadow. (one of my demos)