Starry Night

I saw this lesson in Arts and Activities years ago.  I do some version of it every year with Kindergarten.  We look at van Gogh's "Starry Night" and name what we see.  During the first class we Glue shapes for the houses, moon, and the cypress tree.  The cypress is cut from a 6x9 rectangle of green paper.  I show kids how to draw a tall triangle, but cut a crazy line to give the tree a wild texture like van Gogh's tree.  If time allows they can draw details with marker.

 

 

Jordan

 

 

 

Brodie

Week two, we made our stars shine by adding them in glitter.  Then we painted the wind!

Triangle Tree

Here is an easy one shot lesson plan that makes me and the kids happy.  They love to paint, I love the whimsical shapes and lines they create.  Today's class is using a magenta background and a chartreuse colored tree for even more whimsy!

Materials: 9x12 background paper, green square or rectangle (6x6 or 6x9), brown scrap for trunk, white paint and q-tip for painting.

I show students how to draw an X on their green paper: from corner to corner.  When you cut it out, you get four triangles.  A little geometry never hurt anyone.  As we stack them into a tree and glue them down, we do some trimming so the top is smaller than the bottom.



Immy

This tree took two and a half squares.  It is ready to paint.


When others look at our paint they will see snow.  But the artist who paints the picture is thinking of interesting lines to show a gust of wind, snow on the branches, piles of snow on the ground.