Sunflowers
Last year, when the 1st graders were in kindergarten, they planted sunflower seeds in the garden in the back of the school. Over the summer, these flowers grew tall and bloomed radiantly. Each child also brought home a small pot with a sunflower seed in it. Many of the students watched their sunflower grow big and strong.
When we returned to school this year, some of the sunflowers were cut from the garden and placed around the art room to draw. The students drew and painted these sunflowers.
We also tied in Vincent Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings. A book about VanGogh’s life was read and they saw pictures of his paintings.
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I LOVE the continuity of this- they plant the seeds that grow into flowers for them to paint, wonderful- also their work is great too, I really like the way they did the water!
What a lovely idea about planting the seeds for their own artwork. Wish I had space at my school to try this!
[…] beautiful sunflower paintings and I have approached the art making in a couple different ways: planting flowers and creating observational paintings (which turned out lovely also) and a more step-by-step painted sunflower collage. This time, I […]
Looks like sharpie marker and pan water color? Did you let them draw in pencil first? Also, what size paper is this? Thanks. these are lovely.
It was pencil, then Sharpie and watercolor paints. The paper was 9″x12″. 🙂