Polar Bears Second Grade Lesson

We talked about the weather we had this week and how very snowy and cold it was.  We decided mostly only Polar bears like this kind of weather!  We learned how to draw polar bears in Art and the 2nd graders did a great job.   

We started with blue paper and a black crayon. We drew a rounded edge square about 1/3 of the way up our paper.  We filled it in black and added a mouth line underneath. 
Next we drew the sides of the snout going up from the nose and added the eyes outside those lines.  Last we measured three fingers out from the eyes going diagonally and made the inside of the ears.

 
A white spot on each eye made them look real.  We used white construction paper crayons to draw around the face and then begin making the fur with short or longer strokes.

 Kids added a background of snow, mountains or even the northern lights.

 These bears turned out looking realistic and the 2nd grade artists were very proud of their drawings.