BICYCLE PAINTINGS- STEAM ART LESSON
This Bicycle Painting- Art Lesson incorporates engineering thinking with drawing & painting for grades 5-8. Makes a great STEAM ART LESSON or a beautiful art display for the classroom or art show.
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MATERIALS
pencil, eraser, sharpie, watercolor, watercolor brush, water cup, paper towel, paintbrush, watercolor paper, scratch paper
***Royal Langnickel is my go-to for brushes. These are great for watercolor and acrylic.
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DIRECTIONS
Start the lesson by giving the kids a few minutes to draw a bicycle on scratch paper. No instructions, no pictures of bicycles. Just from their imagination, draw a bicycle.
Then show an example a bicycle. This leads to a great discussion of the working parts of a bicycle. This exercise in itself can be a fun mini-lesson.
On watercolor paper, go step by step through a drawing of the bicycle in pencil and go over it in sharpie. Watercolor in the background, leaving the bicycle the white of the paper.
VARIATIONS
This bicycle art lesson can be painted with acrylic or tempera. Colored markers would also work to create the background.
As an added dimension, I have had students collage a larger paper with city maps and glued the bicycle painting in the center
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One day to draw the bicycle and one day to paint? Do you have a step by step to draw the bike? I am new to steam and have no art teaching background. Help. I love this!
I used this plan with my seventh graders this week. They were really into the process; what a success! Some students invented their own type of bicycle, making sure the mechanisms could work. So much fun for them. Thank you for posting this effective lesson plan 🙂