I love Fall! The colors, the smells, the crisp (ish...we are in Texas after all) air. I have been looking forward to Fall since August 1st and have been itching to start Fall themes since Labor Day. Cynthia managed to get me to hold off but the time has finally come... Sort of.
Today is Monday Funday (on Mondays we go to the park with our homeschool friends, I host an art class for the big kids, and Lil has Pilates class at the Y.). It's a busy day and we don't have time for many projects. Tomorrow we will begin the Fall fun but today was a little preview during art class (which Lil popped in and out of).
For our little art class we looked at some of Van Gogh's landscapes and discussed the use of movement and line. Then the kids used oil pastels to create fall landscapes in a similar style.
Lil was interested in creating a picture too and drew a fall landscape with an apple tree to kick off our fall apple unit.
Lil is 4 and the kids in my "art class" are between 9-11, so there is quite a bit of differentiation but they all made it work for themselves. We used yellow construction paper to avoid having any white space on the page.
I'm excited for more fall fun to come! Happy Fall!
Love the tip of using yellow paper!
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