Just to share in the thread about favorite Monet
lessons: I have done a Monet Mural with 1st grade.
But, it's also appropriate for K-4. On white
mural paper have groups of children take turns
blending cool colors with very watered down tempera.
Water colors work also but are not as vivid as the
tempera. I fill coffee cans with the watered down
tempera paint and give the kids those big 1/12" cheap
brushes. They must paint the paper horizontally
and blend the colors. Vocabulary I stress is blending,
horizontal, cool colors, lily pad.
While each group is working on the "pond", the rest of
the class is creating a water lily. I give the kids
coffee filters and they paint the centers with
yellow or pink paint. Each one also cuts out a lily
pad out of green construction paper.
We glue the lilies on top of their lily pads to the
mural paper when it dries. The 3-D flowers is kinda
nice and makes a wonderful display. This
project requires only one 40-45 minute class. Susan on
Long Island
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There are other ideas from the thread...More threads
come up when you search Monet Lesson artsednet.
Christine Sumner Lyman did one with pink cup cake
papers as the flowers.
