Imagination Drawing

For our next peer lesson, our teachers topic was drawing. To start of the lesson they showed us a power point of artists who made creations out of lines, colors, and shapes. They then had us draw a line on a piece of paper. Once we were finished they had us switch with our neighbors. We got to draw a line on another piece of paper and again switch with our neighbors. Once our neighbors and us had drawn our two different papers we got to choose which paper we wanted to create a design on. The paper I chose had a swirly line on it so I thought it looked like rope tied to a balloon. We had to use two medias to complete the picture, so I used crayons and colored pencils and drew a pictures of a balloon floating in the sky with clouds and a kite. At the end of the lesson we had to write a short story to explain what our drawing meant. I think this was a good lesson because it teaches students that everyone has a different perception on things.

For an extension activity, I would have my 2nd grade class draw different lines on a big piece of paper. They would have to draw a picture story with all the different lines their classmates and they had drawn. Underneath the drawing I would have them brainstorm together and think of a story that went with their drawings above. I think this would provide the students with an opportunity to work together and be open to others ideas, because we don't all see things the same.