One of the first lessons for kindergarten is learning about lines. We go on a line and shape walk and look for straight, curvy, zig zag lines and the shapes all these lines makes. This year we stopped by our school community garden a picked some beautiful vegetables. The children looked like fairies darting in and out of the plants - they were overjoyed with being allowed to pick the vegetables. We came back to the art room with an arm load of beautiful egg plants, little cherry tomatoes and beautiful green peppers. We talked about the lines in the the vegetables, the shapes those lines made and looked at the layers and layers of georgous colors.
I gave each child a black sharpie marker and told them that they would be making their own coloring book page. I demonstrated the basic lines and shapes that were in each vegetable and showed them how to layer colors of crayon. The result was stunning. The photos that are posted here are the works in progress but you can already see how well these were turing out. I wish I could draw like a kindergartner.
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