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I LOVE these flowers!!!  I besides call back this may exist my new favorite fine art lesson to teach!

2nd Graders did such a fabulous chore creating them– SO proud of their work!!

Step-by-step directions with photos below! As well equally a YouTube Tutorial (listed nether menu driblet downwards) and you can download a gratuitous printable water lily petal tracing template. Read more below!

The art display (almost consummate! Waiting on another 2 classes to end and so will add the rest!!)

CLICK HERE TO Go TO MY TEACHERS PAY TEACHERS Page TO DOWNLOAD A FREE TRACING TEMPLATE FOR THE 3 PETALS (Big, MEDIUM AND SMALL)

This lesson incorporates focusing on v of the vii elements of art! – ( line, shape, colour, form, texture) and is inspired past artist Claude Monet and his h2o Lilies.

This lesson took (4) 40 minute fine art classes.

ON 24-hour interval i students learned about Claude Monet and looked at a slideshow of some of his paintings- Especially (of class ) his water lilies!

Students and then painted a canvas of ten×10" heavy weight tagboard with turquoise liquid watercolors, adding salt while wet!! This becomes the water background, and the salt, (once dry), will make it look like lite is reflecting off of the water.

The blue paper is set aside to dry.

Then, students painted an entire sheet of 12×18" heavyweight tagboard either fuchsia or orange using liquid watercolors.

Kids had a choice of ii colors to keep clean up unproblematic—(did I mention I don't have a sink or admission to h2o inside my fine art room at one schoolhouse, and teach off a cart at another???)

ON DAY ii -Create the lily pad

To create the lily pad, students glue diverse shades of light-green and yellow and lite blue tissue paper (pre-cut into squares) using watered down white schoolhouse glue (or watered down mod podge)  on an 80# 10×x" piece of drawing newspaper.

I pre-draw the circles for the lily pads with sharpie to save fourth dimension.

I use watered downward glue (just a smidge of h2o per glue container) to thin it out to make it more than easily spreadable. Kids use information technology with a regular tempera paint castor.

Students practical a thin layer of watered down glue, then a slice of tissue, so some other thin layer of watered down mucilage to brand the tissue smooth and flat. Students repeated this procedure until the entire circle was filled, overlapping tissue a petty as they glued.

Permit dry

ON Mean solar day iii – Adhere lily pad to bluish h2o background, and then cut out petals.

Students cut out their greenish lily pad and and then cut out a triangle from their lily pad

Then they glued their lily pad onto their blue newspaper with a glue stick (using lots of glue) and pressed for 5 seconds to make sure it was apartment and glued on securely.

So after setting aside, students cut out their flower petals.

(Prior to class, I traced 6 large, 6 medium, and half dozen small petals using tracers I created, on anybody's pinkish or orange painted sheets, to save art making time).

As kids cut EACH petal out, they wrote their names on the backs of each one with a pencil, then put information technology in a zip lock baggie, with their name on the baggie in sharpie, and was ready aside for the following art class.

Students thought it wasn't necessary to accept them write their names on the backs of their petals since the naught lock numberless would have their name, but I only wanted to exist actress cautious in case petals were misplaced/mixed up with someone else's or fell on the flooring…. Which did happen a few times–  So I'thousand glad I had them do that extra stride!

These baggies were then ready aside in a box for subsequently. Each course had information technology's ain box.

ON Mean solar day 4:Gather the flower!

Students finish cutting out petals (if needed) then glue down all the large petals beginning, then medium, then small-scale.

I show students under the document camera,  how to stack the fish "tail" of each petal (we talked about how the shape of the petals looked like fish)  right on top of each other like when making a sandwich –stacking the next rectangular  fish tail over the previous 1 each time.

I used "Aleene's" quick dry out (and other types of Aleene's tacky glue) to attach the petals. It's of import to use quick drying glue that is stronger than regular school gum in social club to support the weight of the petals and it helps them pop up.

Another bonus—The glue dries articulate!

I bought packs of 5 for $5 at A.C.Moore, (also sold at Michael'south). Each educatee had their own glue canteen.

(Since the bottles are small, I re-filled the same small bottles with a larger sized one for the following classes).

Students put a dot of glue per petal's "fish tail"  (about the size of a pea). I have students count to 5 for each petal, while pressing.

After applying gum and pressing the "tail" downwards for 5 seconds, bend the petal dorsum at its base of operations with one hand, while pressing the "fish tail" down securely with your other finger. This makes the petal stand up up and pop out rather than laying flat. (Encounter photograph below— I think this pic explains information technology amend)

Once all petals are fastened, then add the xanthous felt fringe to the flowers center!

Students coil the fringe, starting from one stop —keeping it tight as they scroll it up.

Glue the bottom of the rolled fringe (heavily), with the aforementioned tacky glue.

Put some gum on the center of the flower also.

Attach fringe curlicue to center and hold for 20-xxx  seconds. Don't worry if the fringe is squished – you tin can adjust it once totally dry (xx-30 minutes later).

I had students ready the finished flowers in the hallway to dry flat for awhile– and hung after at the finish of that mean solar day!

I could Non westward-a-i-t! To hang these beauties up!!

LOVE, Love, LOVE them!!

We haven't watched it Nonetheless, but I plan on showing my second graders one of the cutest videos on Claude Monet that I plant via Pinterest, side by side art class. It'due south narrated by an 8 twelvemonth former girl, a chip long (x min.)  but so stinkin cute and full of info! I might bear witness merely a portion of it

If interested check it out on my Pinterest page nether "Art Videos"

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