Third Grade Paper Sculpture and Drawing - Tints and Shades

The Third Grade standards for art call for a lesson on tints and shades.

This lesson combines sculpture and drawing and shows the students how to see

and draw shades on an object.

Each student is given an 8x 10 piece of white paper and is asked to

fold it into any shape they feel creating an abstract form.

The children then use pencils to shade in the different values exhibited in the paper sculpture.

Some students finished early, so I asked them to create multiple drawings that overlap each other. I feel that this was easier for some students to do because of an overlapping

drawing they did last year in second grade.

One student really wanted to show half of the paper neat and clean, then the other half crumpled and messy.