I hope you enjoy watching my new video! I had a lot of fun making it!

*****NEW! I just added my step-by-step drawing guide (PDF) on how to draw the cake to my TpT store (4/15/26) for only $1.25*****

Link to my TpT is  HEREHERE  

In my video, I first give an introduction on Wayne Thiebaud and talk about his artwork while showing a variety of his paintings with the titles of the art listed at the bottom, and share some fun facts kids will love! (2 minutes), then during the drawing I show how to hold a ruler correctly when drawing any straight lines—-how to use crayon to create a “barrier” or wall, to prevent watercolors from seeping into other wet sections, —and “wet-wet woops!”Something I came up with when wet paint next to wet paint merges together where you don’t want it to 🙂

Suitable for grades 3-5 

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Materials needed: 

• Good quality white drawing paper (I used 9×12” 80# paper) 
• Black fine point sharpie permanent marker 
• Crayons 
• Ruler
• Watercolors 
• Puffy paint (or oil pastels) for the sprinkles 

3 day lesson (40 minute art classes each) 

Day 1: 

Draw and sharpie cake (include frosting dripping over edge, wavy frosting on top around perimeter, strawberry (or other cake topping like chocolates, candles, or cherries), diagonally striped frosting on the inside, plate, table and 5 vertical stripes for rainbow inside the cake (if you want to include that part) *omit sharpie on those lines 

Day 2: 

1. Color strawberry with crayon 
2. Color wavy frosting on top of cake with crayon 
3. Draw a thick line of crayon at edge of frosting drips
4. Color in the diagonal stripe of inside frosting with crayon 
5. Trace over vertical stripes inside cake (just tracing over lines) to create a “barrier” for paint, with crayons, pressing hard
6. Color in the plate with crayon 
7. Add crayon tablecloth design / pattern on table
8. Paint the sides of cake (from drips down) not the inside slice taken out yet 
9. Paint the top of cake and frosting drips

Day 3: 

1. Paint the inside of cake (just be careful near the top and don’t use too much water on your brush) rainbow vertical stripes starting with red at outermost edge of cake going to purple in the center on both sides 
2. Add puffy paint sprinkles on top of cake (or once the top is completely dry) or use oil pastels 

LEARNING GOALS: 

1. Students learn about the artist Wayne Thiebaud and can identify his work 
2. Students understand how art and other disciplines, like math can be interdisciplinary and helps generate new ideas and supports creative thinking
3. Students utilize the elements of art: line, shape, form, space, texture and color to create a cake and can identify those elements in their work 
4. Students can create, identify and define crayon wax resist techniques 

*****NEW! I just added my step-by-step drawing guide (PDF) on how to draw the cake to my TpT store (4/15/26) for only $1.25

Link to my TpT is  HEREHERE  

This handout would be great for any absent students on day 1 of the lesson. Also great for any early finishers on any given day! And useful to add to your sub binder!

I hope you enjoy my new video!!

I know in my last post “Springtime Art Lessons” I mentioned that I’d be creating a new video for 2nd grade “April Showers brings May Flowers” but I just really wanted to create this video first! I will still be creating that one though sometime very soon!

I’m also thinking about creating a YouTube tutorial on Georgia O’Keeffe inspired Enlarged flower drawings (oil pastel) — you can view them under my 4th grade Art Lessons page —-would you be interested in something like that? With a bit of Art history and talking about her art and life in the intro? Let me know your thoughts!

Please check out my new video when you can! Also be sure to check out my post below on “Springtime Art Lessons” —there’s a ton listed from grades K-5 as well as special education with links back to my original posts on many of them that have detailed step-by-step directions with lots of photos. I plan on making a permanent spot for all of those on a dedicated page under my main menu in the next day or so.

Thank you so much for visiting my website today!