PreK Mouse Paint

Mouse Paint  by Ellen Walsh

After reading ,Mouse Paint;” we learned about mixing paint colors.
Supplies: white paper, red, yellow, and blue paint, glue stick, peach or pink crayons.cotton swabs
Prep: Make a mouse on white construction paper for each child

1. Glue the mouse on your paper.
2. Color the ears and nose.
3.The teacher gives each child red and yellow paint on the paper. The students mix with the cotton swab to make orange. Do the same with red and blue, blue and yellow.
4. Read the book again and leave out words for the students to say.

Sunflowers preK

I am teaching preK -8th grade art this school year. I brought sunflowers in from my garden for my pre K class. We examined the sunflowers and then we were ready to create. We started my drawing a circle in the middle of the white paper. For some children it was helpful to draw a dot in the middle of their paper and then they would draw a circle around the dot. They children colored the circle black and brown. We talked about how the Sunflower looked like a sun and then painted yellow and gold petals around the circle. The children added green painted stems. Voila, our first masterpieces.

Picture books to Inspire Art Lessons

Picture books provide great inspiration for art projects. Here are my favorites:
Anything by Eric Carle or Lois Ehlert.
Giraffes Can’t Dance -Andreae
Big Fat Hen - Baker
The Runaway Bunny- Wise Brown
That Pesky Rat- Lauren Child
The Biggest, Best Snowman-Cuyler
Chicken Little- Rebecca Emberley
Blue Chicken- Freedman
When it Starts to Snow-Gershater
Bug Bear- Hegarty
The Alphabet of Bugs-Gates
Pete the Cat-Litwin
Chameleons are Cool- Jenkins
Swirl by Swirl-Sidman
Snail Trail- Jo Saxon
Owl Babies- Waddell
I will be showing art projects inspired by picture books in future posts.