Claude Monet

For this Monet activity we learned about his famous Water Lilies. We painted our water background with watercolors, and then we sprinkled salt on the wet paint. Once we were done painting, we set it a side to dry. Then we began to make our flower and lily pad. We used green construction paper and different shapes of green crayons/markers. We drew the outline of our flower on white paper and cut it out, then used a pencil to curl the petals. Then we made the middle of the flower using pink paper and cutting and then rolling up the strip of paper. Then we glued it into the middle of the write flower and then on to the lily pad. Once our background dried, we glued the lily pad on the paper.

Extension activity: I would have students write a story about their artwork. This would tie into language arts nicely.