ItвЂ™s also a good idea to set out some flowers on the table while the children paint.Д¬hildren make a seed mosaic by first drawing a simple line drawing with a pencil. Before asking them to paint flowers, make sure theyвЂ™ve had many experiences observing flowers and touching flowers.

To keep from wasting any paint, each child can mix a different hue and all of the paints can be shared.

I let them mix various hues of each color. They chose the tempera paint colors they wanted and mixed in some white paint. Day 2: Coloring in our drawings Finished flower art Painting Flowers with Tempera PaintД¬hildren mixed their own pastel paints for flower paintings. Day 1: Drawing with ink pensДЄnother day, we used colored pencils to color in our black line drawings. The child decided on one part to draw first. When children hit a stumbling block, I told them to look at the flower for a moment, and we talked about how the flower looked its lines, its curves, its shapes. The first day we worked on this project, we focused only on drawing the flowers by observing them. We took clipboards and thin black ink pens for drawing lines. Flowers Observational DrawingДuring our study of plants, we went outside to the garden to draw flowers. Because of cost, I am only able to do this during years that IвЂ™m able to find the small clay flower pots on sale. (You will not need to put a finishing coat on the pots.) These also make nice MotherвЂ™s Day gifts.Д¬heck the craft supply stores to see if they have these flower pots on sale. The oil pastels will work much better than crayons or paint, and will not wash off if the flower pot gets wet. Obtain a small clay flower pot for each child and have them draw pictures or designs to decorate the flower pot using oil pastels. Here are five Plants & Seeds art activities to go with your Plants & Seeds Theme unit.

Pre cut mosaic shapes