This mixed media snow cone lesson is always a favorite for third grade. It’s a playful way to teach value, shading, and form while keeping students fully engaged. They spray liquid watercolors to create the “shaved ice,” draw the cone with crayons and permanent markers, build bold neon backgrounds from tempera paint and construction paper, and outline with bingo dabbers filled with black tempera. It’s colorful, messy in the best way, and gives students real practice with light, shadow, and how f

Self-shading windows draw solely on the power of the pine cone