Kindergarten rainbow paintings

For the past couple of weeks, kindergarten has been working on this precious little piece of art! I got this adorable idea, yet again, from the fabulous art teacher, Cassie Stephens. Click on her name to get a little sample of her amazing art teacherin' talent! 

Earlier in the year, we made a cute little cloud with rainbow paper, so this lesson is a review on rainbow order, and works on all kinds of other skills!!

Here's how we made ours! 

Materials:

Sax 80lb paper

Jack Richeson Semi-Moist tempera cakes

Sargent Art Chalk pastels

Tru-Ray Construction paper

Fiskar Scissors

Day 1: Paint the rainbow. This sounds easy right? Haha! Y'all try getting 20 something tiny humans to paint for the first time, and get back with me! 😂 It's super fun!! 😄We talk about how to hold a paintbrush, we talk about how to use our paint cup and tempera cakes "we dip,wipe, and swirl", and then we paint one color at a time. Dip, wipe, swirl is repeated  A LOT while we paint. What that is referring to is, I tell the kids to DIP their paintbrush in the water, WIPE it on the rim of the cup, and gently SWIRL it on the tempera cake.

Now on to painting! It's like doing a directed drawing. When I paint red, you paint red, and so on. Between each color, I'm walking about the room making sure everyone is following directions, and not painting something they're not supposed to! 😆

Notice I have no pictures for this process! No time!! lol

Day 2: We add blue chalk for the sky, a sun with rays, and a little happy cloud. It's fun to see the little expressions the kinders put on their suns and clouds!

Here's an example of what I passed out for them to use.

Here's Mrs. Garcia's class, hard at work on day 2! Bravo!! 

We still have a few that need to glue things on and curl or crinkle our sun's rays,paint our cloud gray, and then they'll be finished!
🌈🌈Stay tuned for some awesome art! 🌈🌈