Doesn’t everyone have a Snowmen at Night lesson these days??? This is one of my favorite books- it has a great wintry vibe, but without Santa! The illustrations are beautiful! The story has a great rhyming pattern to it. I have read this book to so many classes that I know it by heart. The kids seems quite intrigued by the fact that I can read the story without looking at the pages!
For this project I began by reading the kiddos (2nd grade) the story. On the first day of the lesson I have them a piece of 9×12 watercolor paper. They wrote their names in the back with pencil and then came over to my tray of water and dipped their paper. They did a wet on wet painting using the cool colors. They sprinkled a little salt on their paintings to give them a really cool added effect. The next class we looked at the beautiful illustrations and I demonstrated how to use oil pastels to shade the snowmen so they appeared to have a shadow on one side. The kids did a great job adding lots of little details to bring their paintings to life. I love the little cups of cocoa in their hands!
No comments:
Post a Comment