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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Monet Water Lilies

I love, love, love doing this lesson with my students.  They seem to enjoy it equally too.  Since kids love glitter I always mix some glitter into our paints. 

We start the lesson by talking about Claude Monet and Impressionism.  We talk about how he painted and what he painted.  Since the Carnegie Museum is right around the corner, many of the kids have seen some of Monet's work and recognize it.  The first part of the lesson I give the kids green, turquoise, blue and white paint mixed with glitter of course.  I ask the students to fill an entire 12 x 18 inch piece of paper with the paint but they are supposed to dab the paint on, allowing it to mix together.  We let these dry and complete the painting during the next class.

The next class, I give the kids white, pink, yellow and green paint.  We start by making about 7-10 white flowers.  Again we dab the paint on in a circle.  Next we dab the yellow on the white, allowing the colors to mix.  Then we dab some pink on top of those colors.  Finally, we paint a green smile below the flowers for the lily pad. 

These always turn out so well.  Plus, we always get lots of compliments on them!














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