Fourth grade symmetry drawings

This project allows the younger students to be free about creating,
and opens up the idea of abstract art.
Each student is given a blank piece of paper and a piece of string approximately
a foot and a half long.
They drop the string onto the paper.
Wherever it lands, they trace with crayon, then building into oil pastels
and finally regular pastel.

Fourth grade acrylic landscape paintings

First grade: Continuous line drawings

Each student gets a piece of white paper and a set of oil pastels.
I read prompts to the students such as,
"Draw a line that does loops like a roller coaster"
or
"Draw a really thick line. Draw a soft line."
After I read ten different prompts, I gave the class a new piece of white paper.
The students were instructed to join this new piece of paper with the drawing,
then continue the lines onto the new paper.