Kindergarten Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Art

Kindergarten Pigeon Art

Lesson Background

My kindergarten class read the fabulous book, "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" by Mo Willems. We were learning about the difference between short and long i sounds, so we went through the story and hunted for them and looked at how these sounds were made. We then made these beautiful artworks based on those I discovered on https://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/2018/02/in-art-room-kindergarten-mo-willems.html

Lesson Materials (per student)

1 sheet A4 white art paper

Watercolour palette

1 thin and 1 medium-thickness brush

Oil pastels

Water pot 

1 black sharpie

Lesson Steps:

1.  We read the book, then discussed the shapes involved in the drawing of the main pigeon character.

2.  We watched the video in the above link to watch how the drawing is done.

3.  I modelled each step of drawing the bird and the children followed along with their own paper and pencil.

4.  After drawing the bird, I demonstrated how they could draw some big shapes in the background (I took suggestions from the kids- hearts, stars, confetti, stripes, spots).

5.  The children drew the big background shapes in and coloured them with oil pastel.

6.  We painted our birds and then I showed them how to make little "confetti-like" flicks on the page with the paint to fill out the background.

7.  When dry, we outlined in black sharpie.

Student Artworks: