I do this project every year with Kindergarten, it is one of my favorites! It covers so much! First we read the book "The very hungry caterpillar" by Eric Carle. We talk about the elements of the story and identify characters and setting. Then we discuss colors and the primary colors. Students learn that the primary colors make all other colors of the rainbow. Students get the primary colors and a sheet with a sun, leaves, flower, tree branch, and tree trunk on it. Students learn to mix their primary colors to paint the sun orange, leaves green, and flower purple. Then we talk about how the tree trunk and branch need to be brown. But WAIT! We don't have brown! We mix all the primary colors up to create brown. The kids LOVE LOVE LOVE this part. There are many ooooos and awwwwws. After we paint, we cut everything out and glue it down to blue paper. Then we talk about printmaking and use our fingers and green and red to create our caterpillar. The final step of this project is to give our caterpillar legs and a face. The kids all really love this project and I really look forward to it each year.
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Wow this was an incredible one day project! I drew a square on laminated white computer paper then rolled printmaking ink in the box. I showed the students how to draw with Qtips then how to print. Needless to say they were blown away and excited to start. We talked about a single interesting image and how to fill up the rest of the space of their work. I really enjoyed this project, its simplicity yet creativity really gave each and every student a chance to shine. Job well done Kindergarten!
Kindergarten learned all about different types of lines in this easy and wonderful one day project. You will find the lesson under my lessons page or here. We talked about how line is the most basic element of art and that there are many different types of lines. We learned about and drew five of them: straight, zig zag, broken, bumpy, and my personal favorite loop-de-loop! After we drew our lines, we learned all the colors of the rainbow in the order they go. We painted our colors in that order from left to right. We connected this direction to when they read a book, they read from left to right! What a fun and easy project! |
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