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| My friend Jenna and I at Kristin's Pumpkin Patch in Springfield. |
It's the time of the year for pumpkins! A pumpkin is the perfect subject matter for our first kindergarten painting. This project itself only takes about 15-20 minutes, but there is so much to explain prior that it still takes most of the hour long class. Usually I have enough time to read a fall themed book to my students. This year I read Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins, by Dianne Ochiltree.
Materials:
18x24
white paper, tempera paint (orange, red-orange, and green), paint brushes,
cups, paint shirts.
Procedure:
Discuss
and demonstrate a basic color wheel of primary colors, how to mix secondary
colors, and add them to the color wheel. Discuss and demonstrate basic painting
procedures. Using orange paint, demonstrate painting a basic pumpkin (round)
shape and filling it in. Once the pumpkin is entirely filled in with orange
paint, demonstrate adding ridges (red-orange or yellow orange), and adding a green
rectangular stem. Students will put on their paint shirts and paint their own
pumpkin.
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| Jenna demonstrating how to paint the outline of a pumpkin. |
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| Pumpkins on display! |
-Miss Scannura
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