Despicable Me!

This week we are going to draw some Minions from the move, Despicable Me.  At first, I thought I'd just have the Division One kids draw the Minions, but when I looked through their suggestion basket with things they were interested in drawing, I found that so many kids wanted to learn to draw a Minion, so the whole school will do this lesson in TED!

If you'd like to draw a Minion, here are the steps:

After we draw our Minions, we are going to make them doing something that reflects our own Minion personality.  Since I am a huge Disney fan, of course I chose to make my Minion with a Mickey Mouse suit!

Scaredy Squirrel

So many of our students love Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt.  We decided to do a tribute to Scaredy Squirrel in our TED class last week.  The students were taught to draw Scaredy in "Melanie Watt" style and then added their own details to make him their own.

Here are the steps to draw Scaredy Squirrel:

May the force be with you!

My first week of TED was amazing!  Teaching around 75 kids at once sometimes and absolutely no behaviour problems because the students were so engaged!  Let's hope this week is just as exciting!

This week, we are working on drawing characters who display Stephen Covey's Habit #2 - Begin with the end in mind.  The Div. 2 students are drawing Yoda.  Yoda begins with the end in mind because he is a Jedi Master who uses past experiences to shape future decisions.  Here are the steps to draw Yoda:

To make Yoda a little more interesting for some of the girls, I designed a Yoda that used what I like to call a "doodle fill".  I paint it first with watercolours and then I use a Sharpie to add all kinds of doodles.  This is how he turned out:

May the force be with you!