Plan and reflect
Plan My Drawing
Before you draw: choose your idea, shapes and colors. After you draw: look back and set a goal.
Thinking sheet · Plan and reflect
My Art Timeline
Draw how your drawings changed: a scribble from when you were little, up to the art you make now.
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 20 minutes
- Topic
- Plan and reflect
- Kids practice
- seeing growth, sequencing, setting goals
What kids do
“You’ve been an artist since you were tiny. Show how your art has grown!”
- From little me to me now
- The biggest change in my art:
- What I’ll be able to draw next year
- What will help me get there?
How to run it
- Kids draw the way they think they drew at each age: scribbles, tadpole people, houses.
- Ask families for an old drawing if they have one.
- Talk about how every artist starts with scribbles.
Talk about it
- What could you draw at 4 that you couldn’t at 2?
- Do you remember learning to draw something?
- What will future you be able to draw?
Take it further
Look at drawing milestones by age with the class.
Pairs well with
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Climb the “Yet” Ladder
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Be a Kind Art Critic
Look at a friend’s drawing like a museum critic: describe it, praise it, ask a question and give it a title.
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Then and Now Drawing
Draw the same thing today and again in a few weeks. Compare them and spot what improved.
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