Umbrellas for a Rainy Day Kindergarten Lesson

I saw a cute project with a large umbrella on an art project website but cannot find it again to give proper credit.  Added some of my own touches to come up with this rainy day project.  The kids really enjoyed walking into the artroom to find 5 colorful umbrellas open and on display for them to look at for inspiration!   Thanks to the AI room for loaning me the extra umbrellas for the project.

 
First students traced an umbrella shape and added lines for sections.Then we talked about how to make the umbrellas colorful and we colored with markers and crayons.  We passed out "rainy"paper which we had prepped with sprinkled liquid watercolor paint on gray paper. The paper needed to be dry before the project.
 

The kinders cut out their umbrellas and glued them onto the rainy paper.

We looked at a model to see how much of a Kindergartener we could see under such a big umbrella.

    

We drew legs, shoes and made shiny puddles with plastic wrap to complete our rainy day pictures.  Nice job Kindergarteners!