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!