- STEP 1: Use the tip of your pencil to draw any letter of the alphabet.
- STEP 2: Try drawing that letter very small. Try drawing it very large.
- STEP 3: If you had chosen to draw a lower case letter, draw it capital. If you had drawn a capital letter, draw it lower case.
- STEP 4: Can you draw this letter in cursive? Can you draw this letter in a different font?
- STEP 5: Serifs are the little lines or flourishes that go on the ends of letters. Can you add serifs to your letter? Sans Serif fonts do not have little lines or flourishes at the edges of the letters. Can you draw your letter in a sans serif font?
LESSON IDEA:
Although this lesson works specifically with letters, the real purpose it serves is just to provide students with an accessible item to practice drawing.
EXTENSION:
This warm-up helps students consider how to represent one thing in different ways. Consider using this to connect with math and look at how a math problem could be represented or solved in multiple ways.
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