Paul Klee: Castle and Sun

Grade: 2nd
Theme: measurement, communities/Around the Town

Materials: oil pastels/construction paper crayons, black paper, pencil, ruler

Step 1: using a ruler and a pencil draw lines that will create buildings.  Straight and diagonal lines.
Step 2: trace the pencil lines with a white crayon/pastels
Step 3: include windows and doors in the buildings
Step 4: using the other crayons/pastels color in the buildings
Step 5: draw and fill the moon.

Chalk Cityscape

Grade level: 2nd
Theme: Communities and Around the Town

Materials: Black construction paper, white/yellow construction paper crayons, chalk (white or colored), card stock, scissors, and a pencil

Step 1: on the card stock draw a cityscape using a varied box line design.

Step 2: cut out the cityscape

step 3: place the card stock cityscape on the black paper, using a piece of chalk draw on the card stock.  (If you look at my example the bottom line I traced the stencil.  The top two lines I drew directly onto the stencil)

step 4: using your finger push the chalk dust off the stencil onto the black paper.  Be sure to hold the stencil down or it will wiggle.

Repeat this step until your paper is full.

* for each layer you can flip your stencil over to add variety.  You can also have another cityscape cut out of the opposite side giving another option.  My students love to share their stencils.

Finally, use the construction paper crayons to add a moon and windows to your buildings.