Gingerbread Man Art Project
Help your learners create a bright happy picture after reading The Gingerbread Man with the step by step drawing directions we provided here on the blog: Drawing The Gingerbread Man
What you need:
- art paper
- black marker
- watercolor
- drawing steps
Directions
- Read the story. Discuss the Gingerbread Man character and ask your learners to recall the basic story outline. Challenge them to order the event or series of characters in order.
- Tell students you would like them to create an art project of the Gingerbread Man.
- Ask them to watch you draw first. Go through the steps, verbalizing each stroke and giving page position reference cues etc.
- Give your students the option of following you again and copying your directed steps, or to go ahead and draw their own representation of the Gingerbread Man character.
- Remind your students that artworks are not photographs and drawing with real life detail or proportions is not at all required - that in fact a more fluid and energetic interpretation can often be more expressive and appealing.
- Draw the steps again, pausing between each for students who are following you.
- Use watercolors or similar to add color and movement to the artworks.
