Lesson Ideas for Grade Five!
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Windswept Coastline

Beautiful Brish Columbia!
RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Watercolour
1.5hrs

Sea Otter

Indigenous wildlife! Adorable as well!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Charcoal
1.5hrs
or less

Sledding Snowkid
Whooooosh!
RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Oil Pastel:
1.5hrs

Wild Horse

Explosive action!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Charcoal
1.5hrs

Robin's Nest

Robin mom with eggs!
RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Oil Pastel:
1.5hrs

Tree House

Simple perspective and a cool treehouse too!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Charcoal:
1.5 hrs

Charcoal & Chalk:
1.5 hrs

Polar Bears

Mother & cub!
RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Pen & Ink:
1.5hrs

Bouquet A beautiful bouquet! Maybe for Mom? RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH Oil Pastel: 1.5 hrs

Great Blue Heron

Wetland paradise!
RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Watercolour or Oil Pastel:
1.5hrs

Santa

The jolly old elf himself! Create your version of Santa... how do you imagine he looks? Grade 1's will create a more basic Santa.

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Oil Pastel/Charcoal/Pencil:
1.5hrs

Swans

Swan & cygnets!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Charcoal & Chalk:
1.5 hrs

Tree Frog

Green, orange & white!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Oil Pastel:
1.5hrs

Snail

Snail but not so slow!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Oil Pastel:
1.5 hrs

Self-portrait

Mountain Lion

Native wild cat!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Oil Pastel:
1.5 hrs

Owls

These owls are AMAZING! Learn shape and colour! (And really big eyes!)

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Oil Pastel:
1.5hrs

Autumn Maple Tree

Autumn leaves, shaded tree trunk and a beautiful background scene!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Oil Pastel/Watercolour:
1.5hrs

Gray Wolf

Every colour BUT gray!
RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Oil Pastel:
1.5hrs

Orca

Lovely introduction to watercolour painting! A beautiful whale in a peaceful setting! Quite simple to draw a bit more complex when painting... an excellent lesson!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Watercolour/Oil Pastel:
Gr.5=1.5hrs

Waterscape

A really good introduction to watercolour painting. Intermediate students will learn the benefits of simplification and editing, as well as using basic lines and skills to give the illusion of distance. This lesson would also work for pencil, charcoal sketching or tempera painting.

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Watercolour/Oil Pastel:
Gr.5=2hrs

Garry Point Lighthouse

Garry Point park in Richmond!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Watercolour or Oil Pastel:
1.5hrs

Tutankhamun's Mask

Learn how to draw & shade Tutankhamun's mask!

OIL PASTEL:
1.5hrs

Chilly Penguin

A cute alternative to the always popular snowman! VARY popular with all age groups! Learn basic drawing & shading skills.

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Gr.5=1.5hrs

Snowman

A whole glacier worth of snowmen were created last Winter! We sketched 'em, we painted 'em, we oil pasteled 'em as well! These turn out wonderfully no matter what medium you choose!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
1.5hrs

Still Life Fruit

A classic art lesson! Learn observation skills, basic perspective and overlapping. Choosing watercolour will teach 'quick sketch' skills as well as painting techniques while pencil, charcoal, or oil pastel will allow more time for detail. You provide the fruit!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Watercolour:
Gr.5=2hrs
Oil Pastel/Charcoal:
Gr.5=1.5hrs

 Cartoon Characters

Poinsettia

'Tis the season! The poinsettia is an excellent shading lesson. Learn to 'pop' the lighter shades out from the darker shades! An excellent lesson in colour blending... you'd never know that 7 colours of oil pastel are blended together in the sample above!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Watercolour/Oil Pastel:
Gr.5=1.5hrs

Salmon

Learn how to draw and paint them at any stage in their life cycle. Let me know what kind of salmon and what stage you would like to focus on! This lesson would also work well in oil pastel or sketching.

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Watercolour/Oil Pastel:
Gr.5=2hrs

Beachscape

Can’t wait to get to the beach? Learn to draw or paint a sparkling summer beachscape… Create sand, waves, rocks and maybe even a sailboat! Need more of a challenge? Add people! Or a pier! Watercolour or tempera paintings will be more successful with a simple image. Pencil, charcoal or oil pastel allow for more detail.

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Oil Pastel:
Gr.5=1.5hrs
Watercolour:
Gr.5=2hrs

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Charcoal
or
Charcoal & Chalk:
1.5hrs

Blossoming Cherry Tree

Feel the softness of the petals as they drift gently in the spring breeze. Learn to paint or draw a cherry tree in full blossom. The simplicity of the subject allows more time to explore detail and colour!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Watercolour/Oil Pastel:
Gr.5=1.5hrs

Pacific Dogwood

Older students will go into more detail in drawing realistic flowers, leaves and branches! Learn shading techniques. B.C.'s Provincial Flower... well, it's actually modified white leaves surrounding a tiny orangish blossom cluster but we can draw it! Paint it, too! Oil pastel would be lovely.

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Pencil/Charcoal/Oil Pastel:
Gr.5=1.5hrs
Watercolour:
Gr.5=2hrs

Easter Bunny

The Easter Bunny has a great big delivery for your class! An 'egg'cellent shading lesson in a variety of bright spring colours. Cute & Simple to draw. (Bunny can hold flowers for students who don't celebrate Easter. )

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
Watercolour/Oil Pastel:
Gr.5=1.5hrs

 

 

 

Sculpture
Only available when all classes do clay that day!

Sculpture
Dragons

Fabulous!.

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
1.5hrs

Sculpture
Animals

Animals are a great introduction to sculpture. Works well with clay, air dry clay or plastiscene etc. Only a small amount needed per student.

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
1.5hrs

Sculpture
Pinch Pot Fish

It can also be a fancy fish or a pretty fish or whatever kind of fish you can imagine! In fact... it might not be a fish at all!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
1.5hrs

Sculpture
First Nations Masks

A variety of west coast first nations masks!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
1.5hrs

Sculpture
Clay Boxes

Tiny gift boxes are wonderfully cute and make creative gifts for Mother’s or Father’s day! Only a small amount of clay is needed for a ring sized box. These boxes can be made larger if cost of more air-dry clay is not an issue or you have a kiln available - potter's clay is relatively cheap!

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
1.5hrs

Sculpture
Animal Masks

Woof! or possibly meow! Grrrrrr? :-)

RECOMMENDED WORKSHOP LENGTH
1.5hrs