This is a new poppy project I tried this year wiht my Grade 4-6 students. In all honesty, it was too easy for them, but we needed a quick project we could do in one period (80 minutes) and this fit the bill.
The only part that needed to be completed the class before was the students making the textured grey background paper.
I altered this project slightly from the one I saw on the fellow Canadian website 'That Artist Woman".
See her post with all the steps HERE.
We used really watered down grey tempera paint mixed with silver metallic paint.
Water it down to a runny cream consistency.
Cover with plastic wrap, make lots of wrinkles and let dry a few hours.
When you peel of the plastic wrap, you get a really cool textured pattern.
Using painted green paper, students cut out long, thin, wobbly stems as well as jagged leaves.
Glue those down.
Using red tissue paper, students cut out three different sized circles and
layered them together and glued them down.
Cut out black paper and glue in the center.
You can see the bouquet of poppies that we looked at beforehand, to get a good sense of what poppies look like in real life.
Grade 4-6 results!
