At Home Art Lessons for Kids | Vincent Van Gogh
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“I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” - Vincent Van Gogh
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Lesson 1 | Sunflower
Kinder - 2nd Grade
Supplies:
Foam or Paper Plate
Paint
Paint Brush
Fork
Scissors
Glue or tape
Cardboard or paper towel roll
Green construction paper
Steps:
Cut the plate into a sunflower shape. You can freehand it or printout the pattern.
Paint the center of the sunflower brown, and the petals yellow and orange.
While the paint is still wet, use a fork to drag through the paint, making swirly patterns in the paint.
Let dry.
Cut out a stem out of the cardboard or using the paper towel roll.
Paint green (add different shades of green if you'd like).
While the paint is still wet, repeat the fork process, and let dry.
While the paint is drying you can cut out a few leafs out of the green construction paper.
Once everything is dry, glue or tape your sunflower together.
Lesson 2 | My Town Starry Night
3rd - 6th Grade
Supplies:
Black Paper
Pencil
Glue
Pastels (if you don't have pastels on hand you can switch it out for paint)
Steps:
On the bottom third of your paper (make sure it is horizontal) draw out the skyline of your city, or a famous part of your city.
With the glue, trace over your pencil drawing. Also make a few circles in the sky for the stars. Then make swirls all over the rest of the sky.
Let the glue dry completely.
Once dry, use the pastels to add color. make sure to use different shade of blue in the sky and yellows, oranges, and whites for the stars. Since this is a night time scene uses darker and cool toned colors for the city part. Make sure when you are coloring in that you are following the glue lines and making small strokes to create that streaky look like Van Gogh.
