First Grade

Starry Night, one of my absolute favorites until one kid says "Is Van Gogh the guy that chopped off his own ear?" This project was really fun. The kids used koosh balls to paint the swirls of orange and yellow in the sky. Then they dipped their fingers in white and blue paint to make different tints of blue for the rest of the sky. We used a wet-in-wet watercolor technique for the land beneath the horizon line. I also had them brainstorm ideas of what kinds of things we would find in a community and then they cut out buildings to create a community of their own.