Watercolour Castles

Par Mawi's gorgeous castle

Lesson Background:
I have been teaching art to our senior IEC (Introductory English Centre) students (Grades 4-6) for one morning each week.  I have SUCH fun working with these beautiful kids!  They had been learning about fairy tales so we painted some castles together.

Lesson Materials:
1 sheet A3 trimmed art paper
lead pencil
watercolour paints and brushes

Lesson Steps:
1.  We began by looking at pictures of castles and using English vocabulary to practise naming parts and the shapes we could see.
2.  We drew our castles with me guiding the drawing in a step-by-step process, offering lots of opportunities for adding their own styles and ideas to make their castles unique.
3.  We painted the castles.
4.  We outlined them with black sharpies when dry.

Student Artworks:

Alex's castle

David's castle