Leaf art

We did a little leaf art project...

Each group of students had a plate of different leaves.  They picked one, traced around it, then picked another one to trace.  The idea was to overlap them and not draw the overlapped section. 

You can see on Aarin's drawing how part of the yellow leaf is overlapping the one already drawn on her paper.  That part of the yellow leaf will not be traced...it gives it a more 3D look!

The next step was to trace every pencil mark with crayon...

Then we watercolored!

This was a pretty short project, but a lot of fun!