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
When I Get Stuck
Collect your best tricks for getting unstuck, then draw yourself using one.
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 15 minutes
- Topic
- Plan and reflect
- Kids practice
- problem solving, perseverance, self-help strategies
What kids do
“Every artist gets stuck. What can you do about it?”
- Tricks I can try
- Draw yourself using your favorite trick
- The last time I got stuck, I…
How to run it
- Ask kids to circle their top two tricks after ticking.
- Hang a class poster of the most popular tricks.
- Works for math and writing, too.
Talk about it
- Which trick works best for you?
- Is being stuck a bad thing?
- What do you say to a friend who is stuck?
Take it further
Add a new trick the class invents to the poster.
Pairs well with
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More thinking sheets
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Climb the “Yet” Ladder
Name something you can’t do yet, then plan the small steps that get you to the top.
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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.
Plan and reflect
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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