2nd Grade Art Sketchbook Challenges
2nd GRADE Art Sketchbook Challenges
Keep your drawings and activities in a sketchbook! Have some EXTRA fun!
#1 Draw someone sneezing something crazy (what in the world could be coming out their nose?!?! Flowers? Fire? Money? Who knows!
#2 Draw a “Folding Surprise Puppet” following the instruction from this video. You DON’T have to make a shark or pizza. You can turn it into anything following these steps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy2-3BxdtYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNpJCgOA1Xc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATEKkx159RY
#3 Draw a Rockstar taco!
#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 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
#6 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.
#7 Combine two (or more) animals to make a new animal! You can draw it, paint it, build it out of playdough or model magic… the possibilities are endless.
#8 Stuck at home? Take a virtual tour of a museum from around the world!
Virtual Museum Tour Links!
#9 Draw a Pop-Tart lifting weights. What kind of Pop-Tart is it? What colors will you need to make it? Will it have a design on it? What flavor is your Pop-Tart? What are the weights made of?
#10 Make a Print like Andy Warhol!
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ANDY WARHOL HERE! * Andy Warhol Print Resources*
#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 Do you LOVE Internet quizzes? Good because here are a bunch of them! Pick one (or more) and have fun!
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes
#13 Draw your pet wearing funny makeup
#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 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
#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 Find a video on How to Fold Origami. Try to fold something.
***When choosing from YouTube, please make sure your choice is "school appropriate," no weapons please :)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+fold+origami
#18 Create the most disgusting ice cream sundae you can think of.
#19 Choose a lesson from Deep Space Sparkle. Your pick. Post your final project!
https://www.deepspacesparkle.com/category/art-lessons/
#20 The Kindness Rock Project
The Kindness Rock Project
#21 Nature Art
Check Out Nature Art HERE!
#22 Create a Found Object Color Wheel Inspired by Artist Caroline South.
Check Out Caroline South's Artwork HERE!
#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!
#24 Create a Stop Motion video on your iPhone or tablet using the free StopMotion app (try adding sounds, music, and credits)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVL0Cm1HyIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF9-sEbqDvU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td2DgP56DP0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjOimVW7HIw&list=PLk9ClP0VesjM3jsRktlUY5t0bkQfHY3Un&index=7
#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
Check out the Special Assignment HERE