Making our own Snowflakes! I wasn't sure how these would turn out because cutting through mulitple sheets of papers is somewhat difficult but I loved the results.
In January we read "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats and we learned about his style of illustration. We discussed how he uses watercolors to paint pieces of paper and then uses a collage technique to create the pictures in his book. We decided to try this out ourselves. First the kids painted paper using watercolor (some of the kids went for a more abstract approach...this was popular with the younger crowd and some chose to paint people and other things to create a whole scene). We let them dry and then the following preschool day they kids helpe to cut and rip up the paintings during our centers and then they used the cut-up pieces to make their own collage. I think my favorite part was the interpretation of their collage. We have such an imaginative class!
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