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Watercolor Poppy Art by Grade 4 students. These beautiful paintings can be replicated in YOUR classroom. Directions included.
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Save time with EYFS and KS1 Remembrance Day crafts and teaching resources. Find lesson plans, ideas, and inspiration for teaching about Remembrance Day. | Mrs Mactivity
In Canada we honor Remembrance Day on Nov. 11th. The poppy is the national symbol we use in recognition of the poem "In Flander's Fields" written by John McCrae. At school we incorporate the poppy into our Art projects. This is a Poppy watercolor painting project that I have done with Grades 1 and 2. Materials Required: watercolor paper or heavy sketch paper, tempera paint in green, blue and red, paintbrush, painter's masking tape, scissors, glue stick, Black marker, red paper (optional) Tape down your paper on an artboard or piece of cardboard. I always like to tape a painting project as it leaves a nice clean mat for presentation. Using a pencil mark off horizon. In this project we used rolling hills. Using the painter's masking tape (low tack masking tape) we cut pieces in half and create crosses. You can help cut the tape for the kids or let them give it a go. I find that some get quite frustrated cutting the tape while others enjoy doing it themselves. I asked the kids to mask off at least 3 crosses. They can do more as long as it was an odd number (3,5,7...). Odd numbers just look better visually. Press down all the tape edges to make sure your tape will resist the paint. Start painting. We started with the sky. We wet the paper with plain water to the horizon line and then added our paint starting at the top. This is called a graded wash and mimics the sky in real life. It will be darker at the top and will get lighter as it approaches the horizon. Using the green paint paint in the rolling hills. paint right over the tape. We mixed a little brown with our green to get a darker shade of green and to add some depth to our hills. If you want some clouds in your sky you can lift off some color while it's still wet with a kleenex to form some realistic looking clouds. To further add some texture to your painting you can sprinkle on some salt when the paint is just about dry, right before it loses its shine. Let dry. Don't remove the salt until it is completely dry or it will smear. While you are waiting for your painting to dry work on your poppies. You can paint some paper red while you have your paints out or you can use some red construction paper. Cut out some poppy shapes and then using your black marker put in the centers. You need quite a few poppies if you want drifts of flowers. When your painting has dried rub off the salt. I usually hold it over the sink to do this step. Now the magic....remove the tape to reveal the white crosses. Using a glue stick, attach the poppies to your painting. This is the painting my son completed last year. The kids were amazed when they took off the tape and the white crosses appeared. I will be posting more Remembrance Day projects so check back. see you next time gail
The following is excerpted from the Prince Edward Island Lighthouse Society's "Lighthouses of Prince Edward Island" brochure. Many thanks to the Society for sharing this with us. The first mode of transportation for early settlers was the sea. Lighthouses were as important to them in their trade and commerce, particularly in shipbuilding, as the railway was after Confederation. Many colonial or "first-generation" lighthouses – those built before 1873 – are octagonal shaped, and were constructed when timber was abundant in this province.
I recently completed these Poppy inchies with a Grade 5/6 class in honour of Remembrance Day. The students made all 4 and then picked their 3 favourite to be mounted on 1"x 4" boards that are cut in 12" lengths. Here they are up on the bulletin board. We completed them in two 1hr. sessions. Please note: Like all my inchie projects each one of these squares can be done as a large project. MATERIALS REQUIRED: - 1"x 4" fence board cut into 12" lengths, you could also use black paper - 4 watercolour paper inchies, we used 3"x 3" inchies - cereal or cracker box cardboard, about 3" square - scraps of corrugated cardboard - drywall filler - masking tape - acrylic or tempera paint in red, blue, black, green, yellow and white - disk tempera in red - black and red paper scraps - white paper, about 3" square - old book pages - tacky glue - black button - black pony bead - black pencil crayon and/or fine black sharpie - oil pastels in yellow and orange PROCEDURE: We started by painting our boards with black acrylic paint. We painted the front and the 4 sides. Set aside to dry. Now when I do inchies with the kids we work on several at once, when one stage is drying we are working on another step/inchie. But it's easier for me to explain the steps for each inchie one at a time. We will start with our Georgia O'Keeffe inchie. I tell the kids that O'Keeffe took a bee's eye view when painting flowers. Give each student a length of masking tape, about 6 inches or so. Have them cut it into 3 pieces. Have them cut each piece in half lengthwise using a wavy or curvy line. Choose 3 and tape off 3 corners. Make sure the tape goes from one side to the other. It's OK if a white corner peeks out. Take the orange and yellow oil pastels. Make a outline next to the tape. Then do a inner outline. Using disk tempera paint inside the tape. The kids can mix up a second shade of red to add. Just add a touch of blue for a darker red or a touch of yellow for a lighter red. Set aside to dry. Remove the tape. Use a sponge and add some black acrylic to the one corner that had no tape. Using black pencil crayon add the stamens. Now we will do the inchie based on Irish painter John Nolan's work. Draw a horizon line in the upper 3rd of the inchie. Paint the upper portion with blue acrylic. We used a nice electric blue. Paint the bottom portion with green acrylic. Let dry. Mix a lighter blue (original colour + white). Add some of this to the upper edge of the inchie. Add some yellow and lighter green (original green + yellow) to the meadow. Let dry. Using a very small brush add some poppies to the meadow. I asked the kids to make tiny ones in the distance, a few medium ones and then a few large ones in foreground. Let dry. Using a fine sharpie add the stems and a few buds. This inchie is based on a project I did 2 years ago. I gave the kids 2 small pieces from a newspaper or phone book. They glued them randomly to our next inchie. With the leftover paint from the last inchie dilute it a bit with some water and then paint this wash over the square. You want to still see the bits of paper. Let dry. Take the piece of white paper and paint red. Using a little piece of cardboard (this is not that 3" piece), add some lines to the red paper with dark red acrylic paint. With the red and black papers cut 2 circles out for the flower (1 large than the other) and a stem for the poppy. Glue onto the inchie. Glue the black pony bead into the centre. I printed "is for poppy" off the computer and we added a P stamp to our inchies. Our final inchie. Take the 3" or so piece of cardboard and cut out a poppy shape. Add some drywall to the front for texture. Let dry, it takes about 4 - 6 hrs. Cut your old book page in half. Spread some glue on your inchie. Stick your book page on the inchie. Trim to fit. Take some black acrylic paint (maybe the leftover paint from the O'Keeffe poppy), water it down a bit and give your book page a wash. You can also splatter a bit of that black paint as well. Let dry. When your drywalled poppy is dry paint with red acrylic. We used 2 different reds. Cut a circle out pif a scrap of black paper, glue to the center. Add a black button on top of the black circle. Pick your 3 best and glue on your black board. Great work Grade 5/6! Gail
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