Project Titles: Butterflies, Oysters, Spider Webs
Description: Children learn the color wheel when painting butterflies, oysters, and spider webs
Author: Liza
Grade Level or Target Age Range: Preschool to early elementary
Historical Art Examples or References: Discussion on benefits of Oysters and facts of spiders
Vocabulary: Antennas, yellow, green, blue, purple, red, orange
Anticipatory Set:Discussion on benefits of Oysters and facts of spiders
Demo/Direction:
- Make butterfly by fan folding a coffee filter and using a pipe cleaner in the middle to act as center and make antennas
- Make Oyster by paper maching to form an oyster
- Make a spider web using a white crayon to draw web on white paper
- Start with any color on the color wheel and follow it around having the children apply one color at a time to all three projects.
Discussion:
1. What is symmetry?
2. Is this butterfly symmetric
3. What are benefits of the oysters
Instructional Reflection:
It was great when the children discovered the spider web. They were surprised with their findings.