1st Grade Robots- using rulers
Using rulers is not as easy as you would think for the littles. They wiggle around while trying to make a straight line… This lesson is all about holding the ruler still while truing to make the lines for their robot drawing.
This lesson is an intro to the perspective lessons I teach in the upper grades. It goes over using the ruler to create straight horizontal and vertical lines.
I spend the first part of the lesson just showing them how to hold the ruler while drawing a line along it. The key is to press down in the center of the ruler to hold it in place. Also showing them how to check the ruler with the edge of the paper before the make their line, to be sure the ruler is perfectly horizontal or vertical.
Materials: rulers, paper, Crayola Construction Paper Crayons, pencil, eraser
We start by using the ruler to draw a rectangle at the bottom of the page for the body. Then on to the head, which they can choose square or circle. We add the neck the shoulder circles. Then the arms and on to details of the face and hands.
We all use gray to color in the body, head and arms. I have small broken pieces of Construction paper crayons that I’ve shown them how to use the sides to fill in lightly.
Then they can use any colors for the rest of the robot.