The tiny seed

As it was an ace spring day the other day, Mrs Kowalski let us do a fun art activity.
First we needed to paint our paper. We needed to layer up to 3 colours of paint onto an A3 sheet of paper, green onto one half of another piece of paper and up to 2 colours on the other half of the paper.

Whilst we waited for our paper to try, we read The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. Mrs Kowalski explained to us that Eric Carle goes through the same process when creating his artwork, except for the fact that he paints on tissue paper. As we didn't have any tissue paper at the time we used regular paper.

After the paintings were dry, we cut out petals from our largest coloured painting. We used the green painting to create the stem and leaves and the smaller coloured part to create the middle of the flower.

 

 

Rather than wasting the left over pieces of painted paper, we used them to create a border around our flower. Here are some of our paintings