The kindergarteners have been working on drawing what they see, not what their brain tells them to draw. This is a surprisingly hard thing to do! Resisting the urge to draw "typical" flowers, we looked at large sunflower plants over 2 classes and drew what we saw. We also learned all about Vincent van Gogh and the characteristics of his paintings (including, of course, The Sunflowers). The students colored their sunflowers with construction paper crayons and added some of van Gogh's signature dashed lines and swirls in the back. Then they painted watercolor for the background. Some of the paintings achieved the geometric shape patterns using none other than... saran wrap! Only the paintings that were really wet pulled this off. You might be wondering if van Gogh himself created these sunflowers, but no, actually they were made by our talented kinders! :)
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