This is a beautiful Fall lesson incorporating various media. Students learned all about supermoons and we had a supermoon the day we were finishing these last week!
I found the lesson HERE on the "Kids and Glitter" website.
She shows all the steps so it was very helpful!
I taught this to my mixed class of Grade 4,5,6 students.
It was the perfect level of challenge for all of them.
Start with basket style coffee filters (from Dollarama).
Kids crumple them up then gently flatten them. Paint them in a mottled technique, mixing colours, using watercolours. Let dry. Doesn't take too long.
On 12x18" construction paper, lay down a bunch of chalk pastels in
whatever 'twilight' colour they want. Blend it all out gently using a tissue.
Then, using the same size green and black construction paper, slowly tear those into landscape hills.
Do the same with black construction paper but tear it a bit shorter than the green.
Glue down the green first.
Students starting deciding where they wanted their supermoon.
Glue down the black layer on top pf the green layer. Glue down the supermoon- it's trickier to glue because it's so thin and textured and a bit fragile. We used glue sticks for this step.
Then draw on some tree trunks and branches in pencil.
We painted our trees using black acrylic paint and thin brushes for the branches.
Using a Q-tip and tempera paint, students dabbed on fall coloured leaves.
I gave them the choice of yellow/orange or burgundy/purple.
95% chose burgundy/purple!
Some early finished artworks:
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