Australian Baru Crocodiles

First grade artists learned about Aboriginal dot painting and some of the unique wildlife of Australia as they created these cool saltwater Baru Crocodiles!

They began by tracing circles with a large marker, coloring the background with Warm Wanda colors, and carefully making white dots with a q-tip.

  

We drew our crocodiles step-by-step with Mrs. Brouwer, then painted them with watercolors, adding dots for detail with the the end of a paintbrush.  Cutting the crocs out was tricky – first graders got in some good practice using scissors!

     

See more of our cool crocs in our ARTSONIA Art Museum!