Square 1 Art Project
First Grade: Collage
Garden Scenes
First grade students began with the Art Hunt on day one and
then watched the animated video of Eric Carle’s book ‘The Very Hungry
Caterpillar.’
(find out
more about these two activities in THIS post)
Students first painted the background for their garden
scenes. Blue and white paint were mixed directly on their papers. Adding white
to a color makes a tint. Students mixed the paint on their paper to look
like a sky and clouds.
The next art class, students paint ‘art papers’ to be used
for the grass and flowers for the garden collages Yellow, Red, Purple and Green
construction papers were painted, letting some of the paper show through, then
plastic forks were run through the still wet paint. Students also practiced
drawing flowers.
Over the course of the last two art classes students cut
stems and leaves from the green, flowers from the others, used some green paint
to add grass, extra ‘art papers’ to add a butterfly, bee or lady bug and then
sharpie markers for extra detail.
4-5 Classes
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