Kindergarten Arlo Drawings

In Kindergarten, we looked at the book Arlo Needs Glasses, which is about a dog (Arlo) who needs glasses.  We looked at the texture of Arlo and discussed how he would feel in real life.  Then, we looked at a Power Point that displayed various artworks where artists utilized a soft texture for animals in their drawings.  Kindergarteners came to the conclusion that in artwork, artists use different lines to display soft textures.

After our discussion, we began to create our very own Arlo the dog using oil pastels on our paper.  We chose to use short, repetitive straight lines or zig-zag lines for our dog's soft texture. The students had a lot of fun creating their dogs and putting the texture onto them!