a faithful attempt: Van Gogh Starry Night Snowglobes

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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Van Gogh Starry Night Snowglobes

This is a wonderful December lesson that incoprorates the holiday season as well as an art history component with Van Gogh's Starry Night painting.

I found this lesson HERE on the Painted Paper website.

For the villages, we used these amazing village drawing booklets found HERE on the art blog Art with Mrs. E. Totally worth the money and I am CHEAP, so you know it's good.

I pre-traced a large circle on heavy white 9 x 12" paper. Grade 4-6 students looked at Van Gogh's "Starry Night" painting and drew their own village. It could anything they wanted. They added swirls in the sky to mimic his style. They also drew their own base for the snow globe.