This week, we're finishing up day 1 of our precious lil penguins! I found this beautiful idea on Mary Making's blog! This project incorporates watercolor painting, drawing, value, and oil pastels. Here's how we created ours! Materials: Solo by Paul Geraghty Crayola Watercolors or Sax Liquid watercolors Sax 90lb paper Sax 70lb paper Crayola Oil pastel Day 1: Paint background and draw penguin! Before I gave them 90lb paper, I demonstrated how to turn their paper vertical, draw a line across, and use the wet on wet watercolor technique to paint the sky. They love how the colors spread because of the wet background. I tell them to wet their paper all the way down to their ground line, so the ground will stay white. After they finish painting, I go around and sprinkle salt on their paintings to create a beautiful, snowy affect! After the class is done with their backgrounds, we wipe off our area, and get a new piece of paper to draw their penguins. We draw them with pencil and trace with a black pastel. That's about all we accomplished in one day! Here's some examples from one of my 1st grade classes! Day 2: We'll add the black oil pastel, cut out our penguins and glue them to our background! Mrs. Ross' class did a fabulous job!!