yearbook contest 1st grade art lesson

Yearbook contest 1st grade art lesson 

Every year we have a contest to design the yearbook cover with my 1st graders. This year's theme was a school house. 

I provided card stock with the name of our school and year and then the students made their own designs. I did demonstrate how to draw a couple of school houses to give them some ideas. 

We used sharpies, colored pencils and crayons to design the covers. 

 Our school secretaries picked the winner. As you can see if was a hard choice!

1st grade Yearbook contest cover

1st grade yearbook design contest

This year I decided to go with a Hornet theme since we are the Monroe Hornets. Last year we drew children for the cover. Here is the link if you want to have a look  http://mrsharrisart.blogspot.com/search?q=yearbook
I demonstrated various ways to draw bees and bee hives and we discussed what we could add to our drawings (flowers, bee hives, trees etc.). I provided each student a piece of card stock with the words  "Monroe Primary School, 2017-2018" copied onto the bottom. 

Students sketched their designs with pencils and then outlined them with black fine tip markers. 

Their designs were colored with color sticks and then the sky was painted with liquid watercolors.

The office staff picked the winners.

The one above was the winner for the front of the yearbook and the one below was picked for the back  of the cover.

The  office staff had such a hard time picking a winner. They decided to pick others to add as clip art and placed through out the yearbook.

1st grade art lesson for yearbook contest

1st grade yearbook contest

I was approached to come up with an idea for our primary school yearbook cover. We decided to have a contest and the winner would be chosen by the office staff.  I found "United We Stand" from a google search and then went from there. I have nine classes of 1st graders with each class having 24 students. On the first class I demonstrated how to draw ovals for heads and then instructed them on how to draw bodies. This did not work for this grade level. Developmentally they weren't ready for this. I decided to provide oval patterns for their heads for the remaining classes.  This was much better!!

I copied "United We Stand" on card stock since the requirements had to be 11" x 8.5". 

Students were then provided with an oval pattern. I instructed them on how to draw the bodies and how to extend the bodies past the "United We Stand" bubble if they needed to. 

Students traced the people with sharpies and used color sticks (colored pencils without the casing) to color. 

Lastly they painted the background and the "United We Stand" bubble with watercolors. 

Not sure of the winner yet! They were awesome!