Friday, March 1, 2013

Catch a Snowflake Mittens Kindergarten

I cannot remember where I found this project but it is a great winter lesson for Kindergarten.
The original lesson was a mono print with paint but we chose to do it as an oil pastel resist with watercolor instead.
First we traced around one hand of each student with a pencil on 1/2 a 9 x 12" white paper in a mitten shape, not hand shape.
Then the kids went over the pencil mitten with a dark colored oil pastel making sure their lines were thick.
We folded the paper closed and had the kids rub it HARD with the top of a closed glue stick.

When they opened the paper there were TWO matching mittens. Magic in the art room!
Then they colored designs with oil pastels, making sure the mittens were a matching pair, both the same. 
Next they painted with watercolors over the oil pastel designs.  
2nd art period we cut out the mittens, made snowflakes all over a background paper with crayon and glued our mittens on top of "wrists". 
Last touch was a glitter snowflake sticker to catch!

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