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.