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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Kindergarten still life Van Gogh sunflowers

Kindergarten Van Gogh Sunflowers
This lesson is based on Vincent Van Gogh's beautiful still life paintings of sunflowers.

 I introduced the lesson with showing students the many paintings of Van Gogh's sunflowers and the video on YouTube titled "Art With Mati and Dad-Van Gogh". The video is only around seven minutes long and it is perfect for this age.


I gave each student 4, 4 1/2" x 6" pieces of brown construction paper and demonstrated how to make sunflowers using orange, yellow, black and white tempera paint. 

 On the next day I  demonstrated how to fold a 12' x 9" piece of yellow construction paper to make a vase. Make sure you walk around the room and check each vase before they cut!  They glued the vase to a 12" x 18" piece of blue construction paper that I had glued a strip of orange 4 1/2" x 12" paper to the bottom. This saved so much time!



 I provided brown strips of paper for the stems. Students cut out their flowers and assembled them into a beautiful  still life! The last part was to add a little highlight with an oil pastel.






















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