Chalk Cake Art Lesson for Kids

CHALK CAKE ART LESSON was inspired by Wayne Thiebaud’s art. I tie it in to lessons on values and shading. This has been posted before but, I’ve tweaked it a bit the more times I’ve taught it to make it easier to teach. 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 a 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 in 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.