This excellent drawing and painting lesson comes to you from Carolina Freitas, an elementary school teacher at Deutsche Schule Porto in Portugal.

Objectives:

What You Need:

• glue
• white drawing paper
• tempera paint
• brush / sponge

What You Do:

1. The students take the tube of glue and use the glue to draw something easy to outline (a flower, a mountain, a candle, a tree).

2. Let it dry.

3. After the glue has dried, color the paper with the paint. It works best with one color only. Let it dry for some time.

4. Dip the whole paper in water, so that the paint dilutes and gathers different lighter shades. Hang to dry.

5. While the students are waiting for the first paper to dry, have them cover a second sheet of white paper with paint. Let it be a dark color. Let it dry.

6. When this paper is dry, draw something else on it (same technique as above).

7. When the glue has dried, "wash" this paper too, and compare the results.