1st Grade Art Sketchbook Challenges

1st GRADE Art Sketchbook Challenges

 

Keep your drawings and activities in a sketchbook! Have some EXTRA fun!

 

#1 Draw a cookie that has eyeballs instead of chocolate chips

 

#2 Draw a dinosaur who feels confused

 

#3 Try making a marbled print with shaving cream and food coloring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65e5hKRPEnA

 

#4 Draw your name where each letter is made of a different thing (Example: “J” could a candy cane upside down or the handle of an umbrella, “S” could be a snake, “M” could be a double rainbow, etc.)

Check out this video for some ideas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvIqKOTvTsA

 

#5 Draw a birthday party for your favorite animal (or stuffed animal)

 

#6 watch “The Dot” and create your own Dot inspired picture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5mGeR4AQdM&list=PLX11caOZtHXYt1ANmpu74vPC0C7_Oc8I-

 

#7 Watch these videos about Georgia O’Keeffe.  Draw something you love really really close up and fill the whole page!  I love to use oil pastel or watercolor for this but you can use anything you have (markers, markers and water, chalk, crayons.)  you can even use your phone or camera on your tablet to take pictures of things really close up to help you out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyRzUii-pSc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyKvDJug70E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFxYV5ki_z4&list=PLX11caOZtHXYt1ANmpu74vPC0C7_Oc8I-&index=11

 

#8 Stuck at home?  Take a virtual tour of a museum from around the world!

 

#9 Draw your pet wearing funny makeup

 

#10 Make a Print like Andy Warhol!

#11 Loving POP ART? Try this Pop Art Hat Making Project!

https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/cut-paste/make-pop-art-hat

 

#12 Draw a picture of anything, it could be simple shapes or a picture of something.  Outline your spaces with washable markers.  Use water and a paintbrush to turn your markers into watercolor paint.

 

#13 Create a chalk drawing outside.  Don’t forget to take some photos. Get some inspiration from these awesome street artists!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtCEe8ssRVc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Qppy6ejCY

 

#14 Why not check out #8 again and take another museum tour.  You can go anywhere with the click of a button and you don’t even have to pay to visit!

 

#15 Draw your favorite animal doing something a human does (going out to dinner, brushing his teeth in his pajamas, watching TV on the couch, etc.).  Be super creative, it could be an everyday activity like going to work or school or something crazy like scuba diving.

 

#16 Check out these YouTube videos of amazing humans making crazy DOMINO sculptures and then watching them fall!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE9yGOaF-ao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo6x4eulY9g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO3do77Y9cY

Make your own Domino set up. Videotape it falling!

 

#17 The Kindness Rock Project  

#18 Do a pendulum painting with your parents!

Do you love art?  Do you love math? Do you love science?  Try out this STEAM challenge where you will need all 3.  It’s fun, it’s MESSY, and it looks really neat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCB2txYLyxc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EakwlVrX_Q&list=RDCMUC7Q21sJbaAVOIylhu3E7row&index=1

 

#19 Choose a lesson from Deep Space Sparkle.  Your pick.  Post your final project!

https://www.deepspacesparkle.com/category/art-lessons/

 

#20 Try a crayon resist!  Crayons are made of wax that repels water, this means that when you draw with crayon first, and then paint over it with watercolor paint, the crayon will push the paint away keeping the color in the spaces you want.  Remember to push hard with your crayons to get a good wax coating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtrZteCCofY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czbxop_pCl8

 

#21 Nature Art

#22 Create a Found Object Color Wheel Inspired by Artist Caroline South.

#23 Love art but can’t afford the original?  Make your own!  Recreate your favorite painting or sculpture by dressing up with things you have in your house.

 

These are so fun and creative.  Check it out!

https://www.sadanduseless.com/recreated-art/

#25  Field Day is coming up, why not combine Field Day and Art?!  If you choose the “Paper Plane Corn Hole” activity for Field Day you will need to create and decorate 3 paper airplanes to use for your game. Design your paper, fold your planes, add any additional decorations, photograph them, and use them for Field Day.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+fold+paperplane

 

#26 Create a THANK YOU card for a teacher or school staff member who really influenced you or who you want to say “thank you” to.  If can be a current teacher, past teacher, custodian, nurse, lunch aide, classroom aide, special subject area teacher, secretary, or an administrator. Make 1 or more than 1 to spread the love.

 

These can be dropped off when your parents pick up your classroom supply bags during the last week of school.  No photographs of Thank You cards need to be taken, emailed, or uploaded to Artsonia, these are for the recipient's eyes only.  Also, I'd advise that no gifts, gift cards, or personal items be included in these cards as they will not be secured at night and teachers may not receive them until later in the summer. 

#27 Special Assignment: Medical Heroes Thank You Cards for Mrs. Davis