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Hi, I'm Patty Fernandez and I'm an art teacher. And today's activity is how to recreate Egyptian art for kids. Now before I ever start a unit I always like to give the kids some background photos. So I usually go online, go to one of the museums, pull off some of the images that are definitely my content Egyptian art. And show it to the children so they have an idea of exactly where we are going with this project. Once we've done that we move into trying to recreate our own. Now the easiest project to make is a cartouche. The second easiest project to make is anything with a pyramid. And you can always extend the lesson and make it more difficult in an art sense by adding more elements of art to your picture. So in this case we've added palm trees beyond the pyramids along with lines and made it more of a graphic. So the one that I would like to show you right now is how to draw a pyramid. Take a piece of paper draw a beginning line. And I always tell the kids draw me one triangle. Draw me a straight diagonal out, connect. Draw me a baby triangle. Draw me a straight diagonal out and connect. Now we want to try and make sure that we show all those bricks that those Egyptians put together. So we draw our diagonal lines. And I tell the kids there's no mistakes in art so I never give them an eraser and they only get one piece of paper. And I come back in and I divide up my lines. And we talk a little bit about how hot it is in Egypt. And how difficult it must have been to build these pyramids. And no I don't think aliens did it. So we go ahead and draw our pyramids. And then I say I don't want these floating in outer space so this is how I add my horizon lines. And we'll go all the way across. Okay. I take my brown crayon and using this side I color the inside of my pyramids. If you go out the lines it's ok because we are going to color the rest of the picture too. And we talk, I'm turning my picture sideways. And we talk about how sandy it is there so we don't want a dark, dark brown. That's why we are using this side of our crayon. Bring it all the way across. And this is interesting in that if you are talking about pyramids you can also talk about how that ties into math. Once you've done that you go back and get your crayon. I'm going to add some more black lines. This is going to make a pattern. Kids will recognize a pattern all the way across. Sometimes it's easier to do it this way. I turn it upside down and I do straight, wavy line, wavy line. Straight line, wavy line, wavy line, wavy line. Straight line, wavy line, wavy line. All the way up. You want to make sure it's balanced. You might end up with a uneven number which is usually what I like. And this is very simple little kids can do this. Big kids can do it also. And once you finished that you get a blue watercolor marker which is standard issue. And you draw lines. Just to add a little bit of color, not a lot. See it's a little bit of color. And this is also a preliminary lesson if you are going to do watercolor wash. Do it first with marker so the kids get the idea of using watercolor with crayon cause it won't stick. And then you can break out the watercolors and the brushes at a later time. Go all the way across. And this is the easiest one to do. The pyramid is very simple and yet extremely recognizable. And you are done. Pyramids. Egyptian art. My name is Patty Fernandez. Visit my website pattyfernandezaratist.com. And I'll see you later.