Crayons Up Close

This project turned out to be a real success. I made it up to fill time while kids waited for the glue gun and blow dryer when we did our crayon drip project.
(http://artteajannell.blogspot.com/2011/09/color-art-blown-away.html) This was one of my most successful projects. The results were better than I expected. I told the kids that we were going to imagine that we were looking at a crayon very close up. We made a circle with our thumb and finger to frame a section of a crayon, the tried to translate that to a page. They could do any section of the crayon they chose, and could arrange it on the page any way they wished, as long as it was a large "close-up" of it. They could use any color they wanted.They drew with pencil, copied over with black marker and colored in with crayons. Very simple, very successful!