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!

 

#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!

#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  

#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