Warm-up: 10 mins
A textural story line →
see awareness exercises, p.26
Introduction: 15 mins
- Introduce the project challenge to the students: ask them
to create drawing tools using a selection of materials. Each
student will be given a tree branch or twig as the basis for
their tool.
- Discuss with the students the range of materials on display. Talk about the possibilities of different materials: “how
could you use an egg carton as a drawing tool? What would
happen if we cut the carton into strips?” How could we
attach the strips to our branch? Etc.
- Give one long, think stick (between 50 and 80 cm) for each
two children. Ask them to attach their pencil to this stick
with masking tape.
- Flip the pages the children used for the warm-up activity
and ask children to make some quick drawings holding the
stick at the top. This will be difficult to use. There are several variations they can try: attaching 2 pencils/markers or
any combination of drawing tools to the stick.