Thing 1 and Thing 2 Guided Drawing Project

A couple years ago, I was goofing around and did a "fly by the seat of my pants" hand print activity. I had the kiddo's trace their hands and then at that moment, caught a glimpse of my "Thing 2" classroom pointer. This game me a great idea! From this point on, I was going to make it a guided drawing lesson.

I had the children write a C in each of their hand prints then  draw a backward C next to it. Next, make a big black dot in each of the C's. ...The list went on and then at the very end, I had them draw their traced fingers blue. And all of the sudden, THING 1 and THING 2 came to life for them! They were so thrilled that they just drew a Dr. Seuss character...or should I say characters with an S since there were two of them! This is what the final product looked like!

This year, many of my colleagues used the Art series that we use to make The Cat in the Hat but I wanted to do something different. So again, I put on my thinking cap and went to work. How could I make this a guided drawing lesson so that these little fellas ACTUALLY look like Thing 1 and Thing 2. There was no better way to try than to just go for it...if they turned out horrible...well, we could try again.
So, again, I began with hand prints for the head. I reminded students that what ever we did on one hand print, we would do to the other. Next I  made sure we had a neck and a round-oval shaped body. The legs we wrote the letter L and then wrote another one next to it and closed it up. Then a backward L for the next leg and repeated the process. The arms were done very similar to the legs. This time I told students to draw a straight line out then a short line down. Then close them up. One of the students said "hey, that is a side-ways L"! So, we drew a side-ways L on the other side and closed it up.

Then we started to color their hair...AKA the students' fingers...

After coloring their hair, I realized that I almost forgot to draw the circles on their bellies!!! So, we stopped and drew a circle in the center of their bellies and wrote Thing 1 and Thing 2! 

 

Last but not least...I had students color the bodies red and then had them trace over the facial features with a black crayon. Then VIOLA...they turned out like THIS!!!!

 So, for trying a guided drawing lesson from scratch, I thought they turned out pretty good if I don't say so myself! 

You can pick up the directions at my TpT store! Just click the picture above!!!

Have a Seusstastic Weekend!!!

100 Days Smarter!

  Celebrating the 100th Day of school in Mrs. Ramirez's kindergarten classroom!!!!! We know how to have some fun! 

Welcoming in my smarties...100 days of school means 100 days smarter! 

We then made 10 paper chains with 10 links...so 100 links in all! I hung them from the door so the students could be reminded how much smarter they are each time they walk through the door! 

Students also did 100 day art work where they used the numerals 1-0-0 to design masterpieces all of their own! Here are some examples :) 

Students also made 100 year old portraits of themselves! They turned out adorable! 

Then, because we hadn't done enough 100th day Art...we painted 100 dots (10 dots of 10 different colors)!! The best part about the painting, was that the kiddos got to use their fingers AND...they got to wipe off the paint right on to their paint shirt! I think that was the highlight of the day for them! haha

We also did some dressing up! Because what would the 100th day of school be like without 100 year old men and women?!?!?! Some of our teachers dressed up and so did some of the students!

At the end of the day, I took the kiddo's pictures and put them into my "old fart booth" app to make the kiddos look like they were truly 100 years old in the face...here is an example! Before (dressed up like she is 100) and After (put through a time warp)! 

I did this for every student! It was comical! and the kiddos loved it! 

I even did a before and after of myself just for fun! 

 

100 Days of school = 100 days of fun, 100 days of love, 100 days of learning, 100 days of knowledge and 100 days of getting to know one another! 

Happy 100 Days to you!