DRAWING Set-up Guide for Independent Art Station or Early Finishers Center

Do you run exploratory art stations or fast finishers art centers in your classroom or art room? Then you need these sets of art station guide cards for students to use independently. Created for my classroom and suitable for students in 2nd - 5th grades. This art station guide was created for your drawing center, and includes 10x square shaped slides for:

1. The guide cover
2. What is Drawing
3. History of Drawing x2
4. Drawing steps & techniques
5. Materials List
6. What is in our drawing tools
7. Can you make a value scale and shade a sphere
8. Drawing clean-up
9. Teacher Information
10. Teacher instructions
11. Blanks slides for you to add your own instructions x2

And a slide with recommended lessons for your next whole class Drawing project, with links.

❤️ If you would like more topic cards added to these guides, or a guide created for a specific center, please message me in Q & A. Then follow the store so that you don't miss the new set when it's added.

Praise from teachers who have already used:

→ CLAY, COLLAGE and PAPIER-MÂCHÉ BUNDLE 1

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Thank you for creating this art lesson, my students were engaged in this project and the outcomes were great"

✅ Use to build independent prior knowledge before starting a whole class DRAWING project.

✅ Guides new learning for students who have not experienced DRAWING before

✅ Consolidates knowledge for students who have made DRAWING in the past.

More Art station guide cards are available for your art centers HERE, more being added all the time:

→ What is Collage

→ What is Papier-mâché

→ What is Clay

→ CLAY, COLLAGE and PAPIER-MÂCHÉ BUNDLE 1

→ What is Wax Resist

→ What is Sculpture

→ What is Paint

→ WAX RESIST, SCULPTURE and PAINT BUNDLE 2

Each station also has companion Visual Guides added all the time. These scaffold students through independent exploration of each medium.

Explore Visual Guides HERE

❤️ Why should I run art centers in my classroom? Isn't that just for art teachers?

The short answer is NO.

We can no longer omit art explorations from our classrooms.

Art can make a powerful contribution to our students' mental health

In addition to helping students develop a number of important skills, free expression (like using art stations or art centers) is also good for overall health and well-being. Giving young children a creative outlet can help relieve stress and work through things happening in their lives. By encouraging artistic expression, you can help facilitate further learning and engagement. Making art can help children to deal with a wide range of mental health issues and psychological stress, like anxiety.

View further information about this topic from Michigan State University HERE

✅ With these Art station guides, you can either print and file into clear sleeves, with blank spaces on either side of the images where you can add your own notes, or...

print 2/page, laminate and add cards to a jump ring for students to use.

View the video & PDF preview to fully understand the potential of this art station guide for your early finisher art center.

✅ Introduce the art station guide to you students by sharing the PDF slides on your large screen, explaining your expectations and answering questions. Then leave them to it and watch them grow in responsibility and self management. You can even put some students in charge of the clean up section on a rotation basis.

Select VIEW > enter full screen for presentation mode. Then use the arrow keys on your keyboard to drive a smooth slideshow experience, like a pro :)

❤️ Take the stress out of prepping art stations,

❤️ Avoid endless hours of research and resource creation

❤️ Avoid possible frustrations for students working on your guided art projects, that result from not having time to explore a media or technique, beforehand, and build that crucial prior knowledge and confidence with this medium.

❤️ why should you trust my lessons?

I am both a general ed. classroom teacher and currently practising as a Visual Art and Digital Media specialist educator, teaching students from ages 4-12, at a primary school. I do this every day, just like you! I’ve done it all for you and trialed these art station guides in my own fast finishers art centers.

❤️ How will this resource help busy teachers, who are nervous about teaching art?

No worries - I’ve got you covered.

This guide comes with illustrated cards & teacher information, giving you the confidence to run art centers in your own classrooms.

⏰ How long should I run an art station for? 

If you are an art teacher, then you can make that call based on your programme. For classroom teachers, I recommend that an art center stays open for at least a week, prior to starting a guided, whole class art project with that medium.

Then for another week after completing that project, so students can further experiment independently. The perfect option for your early finishers.

View the PDF & Video previews above, then add to cart and smile, knowing you can set up & run your art station with confidence.

❤️ So what is special about this resource?

This art station guide introduces students to the medium and technique of drawing. It introduces the history of drawing and lists the materials that students can use. A starter project is included, to foster further independence. The clean-up card will encourage responsibility and blanks cards have been included for you to add further resources and personalise this resource for your own needs. The teacher information card will up-skill your knowledge about drawing so that you can wow your students.

Students get to express their unique ideas through personal choices and modifications, while working at the drawing art center, bringing personal creative ideas to the activity.

Praise from teachers who have used one of my drawing lesson plans:

→ Zebra, Elephant, Giraffe AFRICA Art Project with video guided lessons 3rd - 6th

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "My students loved this resource! It was great to have 3 different components to the art piece that the students needed to consider in their planning. The drawing tutorials were brilliant. All the students were proud as punch of their animal drawings. Thank you!"

View the PDF & Video Previews above, then add to cart and smile, knowing you have just saved yourself heaps of time and effort!

✅ Where can I find more art lessons like this one?

Click the links in the description above, click the links in the product or...

→ You can browse all my Art Stations / Early Finishers / Sub support resources HERE

→ Browse all my comprehensive art lessons provided as PDF presentation lesson HERE: VISUAL ART STORE

→ If you would prefer the added support of guided video tutorials, browse my growing collection in this custom category HERE: ART LESSONS WITH VIDEO TUTORIALS

→ For my Elements of Art lessons, click HERE: ART ELEMENTS

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