Reece's Purplicious Painting and Parfait Party

Reece decided to have a Purplicious birthday party, based off the book "Purplicious". Everyone wore purple (it also happened to be on a KSU game day!) and we painted with different shades of purple for her party craft. Later on they made ice cream parfaits, so cute! Here are a few photos of the kids painting on small canvases using a bunch of different objects like starfish, yarn, and q-tips to paint and stamp with.

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Handprint Rainbows

In honor of St. Patrick's Day we made rainbows using our fingerprints and the side of our fist to create the rainbow and clouds. This was a great way to direct finger painting into an image.

Ice-Cream SUNDAY

We made ice-cream sundae's with watercolor on Sunday. Pattern was emphasized with this project as well as contour lines. The kids had the most fun picking out what kind of ice-cream went in their bowls. The most popular flavors were pinkilious bubblegum, blueberry, and mint chocolate chip! Here is just one of the sundae's.

Gustav Klimt Inspired Collages

This is a fun lesson on Gustav Klimt that I found online. Kiersten had the idea to use her own head. Great idea! I turned Karli's "mess up" into a mermaid while she worked on some waves. Little brother had a side painting going on behind us so he wasn't left out! We used all kinds of media and lots of glitter and most importantly had a blast.

Pointillism

Tuesday I did a lesson on Pointillism and Seurat with a preschooler at her home. We used q-tips and tempera paint to fill in a "coloring book" page I drew with black marker. We also learned how to make green, purple, orange, pink, and brown! To make this lesson work for older kids I would have them draw their own scenes.

For a rainy Fall day...

School was out on a rainy Fall day close to Halloween so we made some pumpkins! These are made from paper grocery sacks stuffed with newspaper and painted orange. It was a great alternative to carving actual pumpkins.


Later on we made Starry Night inspired Halloween scenes with black construction paper, chalk pastels, glitter, and construction paper.