Second Graders Draw Concentric Hearts

Drawing hearts is easy, but can you draw concentric hearts?

Second graders in Ana Correia’s class at Todd Elementary learned how to draw hearts (“The letter ‘V’ with a small ‘m’ above it”) and also learned the definition of the word “concentric.”

In art class with Paul Villanueva, students created artwork that featured “repeating” hearts on it.

“Those are concentric hearts,” Mr. Villanueva said. “It means to make a shape repeating around the original shape over and over.”

“After you draw one heart, you will draw many hearts around it until you run out of space,” Mr. Villanueva told the students.

Inside the first heart, students could draw their favorite people, such as family or friends, or even pets or stuffed animals.

“Inside the other hearts you can draw things that you love like hobbies or favorite food,” Mr. Villanueva said, as he showed the students an example of his own work. “Choose only three markers and color the concentric hearts in a pattern.”

After teaching the students to draw the hearts, students got to work and began drawing more hearts and adding details that represent them and their interests.

“One of the things I like to do is draw lines, so I’m putting lines in one of the hearts,” Jake said.” I might also draw sushi. I love sushi. The California roll is the best!”

“I drew a Jewish Star because I’m half Jewish,” Addy said.

Travis and Riley drew Gameboy and Nintedo Switch devices, respectively, inside their hearts.

“I love everything about school,” Kennedy said, “so I drew math and art and I’ll draw a book, too. It’s one of my favorite things. I read 14 chapter books in one hour! That’s how much I love to read!”

“The students will use crayons to do the detail work,” Mr. Villanueva. “For the last step, we will use wet brushes to go over the water-soluble markers to turn it into a cool painting.”