How To Draw A Groundhog

Teach your students how to draw a groundhog! This Groundhog Day directed cartoon of a groundhog is adorably cute and perfect for your February 2nd lessons and celebration.

How to Depict a Groundhog

Need a fun Groundhog Day art activeness? Teach your students how to draw a groundhog! They'll honey this easy activity that but requires a few materials. Nonetheless, the result is cute, colorful artwork to brandish on your classroom walls and bulletin boards.

Materials Needed for How to Draw a Groundhog

This directed drawing tin exist adapted for any primary classroom or completed at home with a few uncomplicated materials. You will need white art paper, pencils, erasers, fine black markers or Sharpie pens, and watercolor paints. I recommend proper paper meant for fine art because information technology can handle the water and paint and shouldn't tear the paper if used properly.

When education this art lesson to a form, I recommend continuing front and centre and using a large easel and chart newspaper to draw on. Students can sit at their desks with their supplies. I accept things slow and describe each pace and give each didactics ane at a time. I requite my students enough of time to follow along and ask questions. You will have the nearly success if y'all model the lesson this way and accept your fourth dimension.

How to Draw a Groundhog: Directions

Below are all the steps for how to draw a groundhog.

Place a large white piece of art paper in portrait orientation. Starting in the middle of the page, draw a big circle for the head. Add 2 ear shapes as arches with a smaller curvation inside.

Draw a circle in the middle of the face circle for a nose. Add two round shapes connecting to the nose.

Draw two big circles for eyes connecting to the nose. Add arches within each eye circumvolve for the pupils.

Draw a rectangle coming downwardly from oral fissure circles. Add a line downwards the center of the rectangle to make teeth. Draw three curved lines on each half of the mouth as whiskers.

At the bottom of the page, depict two half-circles for paws. Add 2 short lines going upward and down within the half circles.

Describe a long curved line down, starting under the caput and connecting with a paw. Repeat for the other side to create a body shape. Add another curved line from the caput, above the body alive, and connect it with the body to create an arm. Echo on the other side.

For the hands or forepart paws, draw a half-circle shape with a bubble for the thumb from the arm upward. Repeat on the other side.

Use a fine point black marker or Sharpie pen to trace all the lines of your groundhog. Erase the pencil lines with a skillful white eraser.

I unremarkably consummate the activity over two days or periods. On solar day 1, we consummate the drawing and the tracing with a blackness marker. One day two we pigment. If your form hasn't used watercolor paints before, you should demonstrate how to make proper brush strokes with a paintbrush and the water to pigment ratio. I usually use larger paintbrushes instead of the small ones that are typically included with watercolor paint sets.

Use watercolor paints to paint the trunk of the groundhog first, starting in the center and working your mode outward. Brownish is not the most exciting color, so the background is extra of import.

Paint the groundwork backside the groundhog in a bright color. I suggest using bright, contrasting colors, like yellowish, pinkish, green, blue. Paint all the groundhog details (body, pupils, background).

Once anybody completes their Groundhog Twenty-four hours directed drawing, they place them somewhere to dry completely. Don't make the mistake of hanging them or putting them upright. Paint and water would drip down onto the groundhogs. In one case dry, I recommend hanging them up or creating a fun bulletin board brandish for Groundhog Day.

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