Kirsten's class did this really cute project. They made blossoming trees! It was a 3-day project.
Day 1- Paint the 8x10 board
Day 2- Paint the tree on the painted background
Day 3- Make blossoms and glue onto the tree
Add a mat background and glue painting onto mat.
Make a simple poem about Spring and tape onto mat.
In case you can't read the poem, it says...
Spring is like
Little girls.
Sugar and spice
And everything nice
Then hand over hand I had Kirsten write her name to autograph her painting. I absolutely love it!
Kirsten's tutor and I worked with Kirsten here a home on this art project. Kirsten hates anything on her hands; she's OCD about that! She didn't want to paint with the brush, so I had her put her fingers 'in' the paint and we moved her fingers about on the board. I loved the texture and it turned out cute. The picture I took didn't do it justice. What can I say, I am not a good photographer. Someday I'll work on that talent.
The blossoms can be made by shredding small pieces of tissue paper and rolling them up. I chose the hard way. I cute 1-inch squares of tissue paper, 2 layers at a time, and trimmed off the corners and twisted them into blooms. I made about 150 blooms! It took 2 hours! It was worth it! We put the glue on the painting and would lay the blooms down and have Kirsten 'press' the blooms on with her fingers. As soon as the glue got on her fingers, she recoiled! It was fun doing this with her. We had her look at different colors and had her chose her mat background. She needed a little help. When the picture was put together and finished we showed her and she seemed very pleased with her work! I need to find a picture frame that will allow for the blooms and not smash them.
3 comments:
That is a very beautiful picture. Good job Kirsten. I love the colors.
Good work Kirsten, that's very pretty! And way to go with all the cutting of squares mom, it looks great!
Kirsten is quite the artistic girl! It looks like a lot of work went into making such a great work of art.
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