CHALK CAKE ART LESSON in stunning colors on black paper.
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Chalk Cake Lesson was of course, inspired by Wayne Thiebaud’s art. I tie it into lessons on values and shading. This has been posted before but, I’ve tweaked it, the more times I’ve taught it, to make it easier to teach to grades 4-8th.
Materials: black card stock, pencil & eraser, Crayola color chalk, white chalk.
We draw our chalk cakes with a focus on symmetry. Start with an oval for the top of the cake and build the rest from there. We add a plate and a horizon line to create a background. The wonderful thing about the Crayola Chalk sets is, most of the colors have a light and dark shade. For the cake part they can use brown or white. One side they press hard with the chalk to make a brighter value and the other side softly coloring in, so the black paper is showing through to make a darker shade. They can pick any color for the line of frosting inside and do it the same steps. They get to choose a set for the cake frosting. Light on the top of the cake, dark on the sides. Then another set of light and dark color for the plate. At that point we color in the ground and if time permits we use the black chalk and add a shadow from the plate and details on the cakes. I have them use their eraser to clean up any smudges and I spray with aqua net hair spray as a fixative. These look so fantastic hanging in the classrooms.
