Sunflower Art Part II

LESSON 6

Children finish and assemble their Van Gogh-inspired art project.

  • The plates and papers you painted in lesson 5

  • Scissors

  • Glue

  • Crayons

Optional

It is up to you how you’d like to complete your sunflowers for this activity. Here are the supplies you will need for each one:

  • Sunflower seeds

  • Yarn for sunflower weaving (I recommend a thicker yarn for small children)

  • Q-tips and additional paint

Materials

  • Gather materials

  • Cut out paper plates (if you plan to do sunflower weaving, you will need an odd number of petals)

  • Cut out vase.

  • Read through the story beforehand.

Preparations

  • Guide and support children in painting sunflower centers on paper plates and coffee filters.

  • Demonstrate the addition of sunflower seeds using glue and offer guidance during the weaving process with yarn.

  • Encourage children to make individual decisions on how they would like to complete their sunflowers.

  • Assist children in gluing the vase and sunflowers into place.

  • Acknowledge and celebrate each child's completed sunflower artwork.

Objectives for Teachers

  • Children participate in the creative process, painting sunflower centers on paper plates and coffee filters.

  • Children explore various art techniques, such as adding sunflower seeds with glue and attempting weaving with yarn.

  • Children engage in fine motor skills by positioning and gluing the vase and sunflowers.

  • Children express pride and accomplishment as they find a suitable place to display their beautiful sunflower artwork.

Objectives for Children

Collect and Connect

  • Do some fun animal exercises together!

  • Practice saying the poem with the actions you created.

A Little Seed

A little seed for me to sow

A little soil to make it grow

A little hole, a little pat

A little wish, and that is that

A little sun, a little shower

A little while-

And then, a flower

Activity Flow

  1. It is time to complete your sunflowers. Feel free to take creative liberty and complete them how you would like. This is how we did ours, first we painted centers on 3 paper plates and 3 coffee filters. We chose to do a dark brown on the coffee filters and a reddish brown for the paper plates.

  2. Next we added sunflower seeds using glue to a couple of the paper plates we painted reddish brown. We left one without sunflower seeds for variation.

  3. We chose to weave a few sunflower centers using yarn, but only ended up attaching two to our final project. Follow the weaving tutorial here.

  4. Now that the sunflowers are complete, it is time to assemble! We decided to use a crayon to outline the vase and the table in the background. We positioned everything to our liking first, and then glued the vase and sunflowers into place.

  5. Once finished, find a place to display your beautiful artwork.