Do you study polar bears or arctic animals with your class?
We love doing this fun art project!
Each year while studying the Arctic, we make these cute polar bears with chalk pastel and construction paper. When I have younger students, we work step by step as a directed drawing. If you’d like to try it, follow the pictures below! You can also download your own copy of the step by step photos for your files (below).
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You are sooo clever Susanna! This is such a great idea. Thank you for sharing 🙂
Kylie
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Susanna, I cannot WAIT to make these and show you! I am so excited. Thank you so much. I'm going to put them over the kids' lockers and leave them there all winter! LOVE them (and you!)
Carolyn
Love these! I can't wait to try this with my kinders!!
These are fantastic!
OH thank you for such nice feedback! I hope the kids are so proud of their creations! xox
Love this post, Susanna! I am so doing this 🙂
I just did this project with my 4 year old son and it was amazing! So easy and fun!
I did this today. They look amazing and the kiddos enjoyed!
That’s wonderful! Thank you for letting me know!
Hello. I am not sure what “chalk pastels” are you and have been unsuccessful with a Google search. Is the white just chalk and the black a pastel?
Absolutely adorable art project!
Hi Marie! Yes, it is just chalk, but true chalk pastel is a bit softer so blends more easily. It is sometimes called “soft pastel” as opposed to oil pastels. I used chalk and black charcoal sticks this year, and it turned out well! Good luck!
Thank you for your quick reply! I bought regular white chalk!
Yay! I’d love to see how it turns out! 🙂
Sorry I don’t have a photo, but we did them today and they turned out so well! Adorable. I teach 3rd grade and we worked on non-fiction text about polar bears and ended the unit with this darling art project. The kids loved them, too. Thanks!
Hello,
Thanks for the wonderful art project! My class loved it, and the polar bears turned out so cute! I didn’t have chalk pastels, so I used regular white chalk and black crayon. The substitute materials worked quite well.
Thanks again!
Thanks Lisa! Glad they turned out so well, and good thinking with the substitution supplies! 🙂