"Owl Moon" Tempera Paintings by 2nd graders

This is a great project found on DEEP SPACE SPARKLE.  She includes detailed directions on how to draw an owl that makes it easy for 2nd graders to be very successful with their painting.

 They can draw an owl on a branch, or by making the wings outstretched have a flying owl.
After drawing step by step with me using white crayons, the 2nd graders were given pale yellow paint. The moon, stars, inside of eyes, beak and feet were painted and left to dry until the next art period.

 

This week we painted our owls using brown, tan, white and gray tempera paint.  Some artists followed the photos of owls to paint actual colors of a barn owl, gray owl, snow owl or great horned owl.  As they painted, students listened to an audio recording of the book "Owl Moon", which they really enjoyed.  Some were excited to see that the great horned owl in the book was a lot like their owl. Everyone is excited to see these wonderful paintings hanging in the hallway! 

Some of the owls are so cute and fuzzy, others look very wise!