Inspired by Monet's Waterlillies paintings, we wanted to create our own!
Materials needed:
-Heavy weight water color paper
-Tempera paint, only blues, greens, and white for mixing
-Paint brushes
-Green construction paper
-Tissue paper
-Pencils
-Glue
Directions:
1. Show examples of Monet's Waterlillies. Talk about the softness of the paintings, soft edges, soft colors.
2. Have the students paint the water first. Encourage color mixing; shades of blues, greens.
3. While the paper is drying, have students draw and cut out 3 lily pads. You can offer them a template to trace, if needed.
4. For the lily pad flowers, have little scraps of tissue paper that students can wrap around the eraser end of a pencil, dip in a little glue and then stick it to the middle of the lily pad. A few tissue paper flowers per lily pad is perfect.
5. Once painting is dry, then glue the lily pads to the painting and voila! A mini-masterpiece!
