2nd Cakes

2nd Grade: Thiebaud Cakes

2nd graders looked at Thiebaud's work and then set to work on creating their own cake art. I did this project 2 years ago with 2nd grade. Only difference this time around, was I photocopied a single vertical line (for the center of the cake) on each cardstock piece. This way, students had a good starting point. This saves a lot of time I found in correct placement of the intial line and eliminates line length issues. We did a step-by-step of the rest of the cake (triangular prism). Students were encouraged to use values, tints, blending and creativity. "Toppings" for cakes were made from colored paper. Students also named their creative cakes and glued the title to their project. Some of these names were quite unusual!

Great job 2nd grade! Spectacular!