Easy Pastel Art

Do you like using pastels in your classroom?

I used to avoid them because they tend to be messy, but this year we've used them a fair bit and I'm starting to LOVE them.

The colours are just so vibrant and the pastels themselves are so soft and easy to work with.

I read my class this gorgeous book called Happy. I blogged about it earlier and suggested a couple of activities to be done with the book (you can find that post here).

After we read and talked about Happy, I had the kids turn and face each other. We remembered the different emotion words together as a class and I asked the kids to demonstrate that feeling with their faces only. They did a great job and had lots fun with it. There were tons of giggles:)

After we did that I had each child think of one emotion word that they were going to use in their own picture.

Everyone received a piece of black construction paper and some pastels and went to work creating their fish.

I walked around and asked which emotion their fish would be expressing and printed the word in pencil on their sheets.

And here's what they came up with!  I just love them:)

Happy Sunday, friends!