Stuffed Animal Still Life Drawings with 1st Grade

Do you want to know what will really get first graders excited about drawing still lifes?  Have them bring in their own stuffed animals!  I invited the kids to bring in their favorite stuffed animals to draw.  I also had a garbage bag full of my own stuffed animals from home in case someone forgot to bring in one.

A collage of 1st Grade children's colorful still life drawings of various stuffed animals, arranged around the text "Stuffed Animal Still Lifes" in a light blue circle.

I demonstrated how to observe the shapes and positioning of the stuffed animals and then I let the kids get to work.  They each had a sheet of 12″x18″ paper and sketched their arrangement first with pencil.

A colorful 1st Grade drawing of four cartoon animals, a butterfly, and a tree on green grass under a blue sky with a yellow sun, resembling cheerful still life drawings.

Some of the kids taped their drawings together to make one large drawing and worked together to arrange their stuffed animals.

A 1st Grade still life drawing featuring a blue and gray fish, a white cat, a red snake, a white sheep, a white panda, and two green turtles with checkered shells on a white background.

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  1. I just love this idea!!!!!!! I’m a ceramics teacher for k-8. I will bring in a bunch of stuffed animals and they can reproduce them as sculptures. They will just have so much fun with this. Thank you!!!!!!!

  2. These are fun. Did they use crayon or color pencils for the stuffed animals. Looks like draw in pencil, then Sharpie then color. And were they able to finish in one class period? THanjks