Blog Post
Amazing Eye Diagrams
January 28, 2024
By Linda Hong and Breccan Wilson
Shamrock School
In our Grade one-two classrooms, we created a 3-D diagram of the eye as part of our Five Senses unit in science.
Follow the steps below to create these amazing diagrams with your students!
Materials:
White cardstock, manilla tag, black construction paper, pink tissue paper, skin tone markers, water colour pencils (or other medium), black marker
1. Pre-trace and/or pre-cut the following pieces, depending on your students’ abilities.
a. White cardstock circle with a slit to the middle (for the eyeball)
b. Smaller white cardstock circle for the iris, trace a glue stick lid for the pupil
c. Half sheet of manilla tag with an eye shape traced on it
d. Banana shape on manilla tag for the eyelid
e. Rectangle on black construction paper for the eyelashes
2. Have your students study their irises in a mirror and use water colour pencils to draw and paint them.
3. When they are dry, colour the pupil with a black marker.
4. Colour the skin around the eye and the eyelid with Crayola colours of the world (skin tone) markers.
5. Cut out the eye shape.
6. Make the 3-D eyeball and iris by making a slit to the centre and overlapping one side slightly to make short cones.
7. Glue the iris onto the eyeball.
8. Fold the edge of the black paper and cut to the fold to make eyelashes. Curl them around a pencil.
9. Assemble all pieces as in photo.
10. Use pink tissue paper for the tear duct.
11. Mount on cardstock and label.
