This is a well-known lesson that has been done forever to help students learn to see. 4th Graders and up can probably do it.
Aim: To learn to see by studying the parts of a sneaker and drawing it simply with a contour drawing.
Materials: sneaker, pencil (or pen), eraser, white paper or sketchbook/journal. Use BABY SHOES if you can gather enough of them. Your students will respond favorably!
Motivation: Putting their shoes on the table to draw will create excitement and moans of "his is stinky" even when it isn't.
Vocabulary: contour, linear
Procedure: Explain that something like a shoe has small dips and bends that we usually don't see. When we do a contour drawing we look deeply at the object and try to draw these subtleties. The key is to try to look at the show more than your paper. You almost pretend you are touching the edges and contours of the shoe with your pencil. Look back at your paper only to place the beginning of the next section of shoe. The drawings will be very linear (no shading allowed).Go slowly and make sure you see the inside of the shoe if it is visible. Doing several of these will really begin to help our students to see clearly.
Follow-up: Have your students draw a chair that has rungs (negative shapes). Put it up high and follow the same procedure of close looking.
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