Rainbow in Bloom

Lois Ehlert's book, " Planting a Rainbow," was the inspiration for this art project. In this book, flowers of the colors of the rainbow were planting. The children painted rainbow gardens after reading this book.
We used large pale green paper that was donated by a business to our school.
Each child was given a paper plate to be used as a palette.
We started with green paint and painted stems and leaves about a third of the way up the paper.
Then went back to the left side of the paper and painted a red bloom.
We continued with orange, yellow, green ferns, blue, and purple flowers.
Then added Sunshine and clouds to complete our pictures.
Some students mixed the colors on the palette together to create "dirt."
The results: beautiful rainbow gardens!

Crawling Caterpillars

All kids love Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillars. I decided that this was the perfect inspiration to teach kids to draw movement.
1. Draw a horizontal squiggly line across a piece of horizontal white paper.
2. Glue a precut oval shape for the head at the left side of the paper. This should be glued over the squiggly line.
3. Paint green ovals over the squiggly line until you get to the end.
I gave each child a palette of yellow and green, so they could have different shades on the caterpillar segments.