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Thinking sheet · Art and artists
One-Minute Sketches
Six things, one minute each. Quick sketches train your eye and your hand.
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 10 minutes
- Topic
- Art and artists
- Kids practice
- gesture drawing, speed, simplifying
What kids do
“Ready, set, draw! You only get one minute for each box.”
- One minute each: a shoe, a cup, a hand, a chair, a pet, a plant
- What did you leave out to finish in time?
How to run it
- Call out each object and start a one-minute timer.
- Pencils down when the timer ends, finished or not.
- Do this as a weekly warm-up and compare over time.
Talk about it
- Which sketch do you like best?
- Did speed make you braver?
- What is the most important line in a shoe?
Take it further
Try 30-second sketches of the same six things.
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