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Thinking sheet · Art and artists
Design My Sketchbook Cover
Design the cover of your own sketchbook: a title, your name and a picture that says “this is me.”
- Grades
- K–5
- Time
- about 25 minutes
- Topic
- Art and artists
- Kids practice
- design, identity, planning
What kids do
“Your sketchbook needs a cover. Make it say something about you!”
- My sketchbook cover
- The title of my sketchbook:
- The first thing I will draw inside:
How to run it
- Use it for a real sketchbook: glue it to the front.
- Talk about what kinds of things kids want to draw this year.
- Encourage a title that is more fun than “Sketchbook.”
Talk about it
- What does your cover say about you?
- What would you love to fill your sketchbook with?
- How often should we draw in it?
Take it further
Plan the first five pages of your sketchbook.
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