One rainy afternoon last week my grandchildren were at my
house. Since I had planned on making examples for a jack o’lantern art project
for my store on Teachers Pay Teachers, I had art supplies ready to make the art
project.
The supplies are simple Styrofoam balls from Walmart,
Crayola kids paint (washable tempera), and Apply Barrel black craft paint that
I had previously purchased and green chenille stems.
We covered the breakfast room table with newspaper and put
on our paint aprons.
I began by showing them a pumpkin and asking them what
colors do they see and shape is the pumpkin.
Next I gave them their Styrofoam balls which we pounded on
the table to flatten the bottom and the top.
Painting is the next step. They were given a paintbrush each
and shared the orange paint, no water because there was no need to rinse the
brush. Older children could be given yellow and red and orange and a cup of water
for rinsing the brush and a sponge to dry the brush. The ball could be painted
orange with yellow paint spattered on and red painted for shading in the
grooves of the pumpkin.
After the orange paint dried, we looked at jack o’lanterns
to see what shapes to use to paint the face of the jack o’lantern. The children
and I painted our jack o’lantern faces with black paint.
When thoroughly dry, we fold the green chenille stems in
half and twisted them to look like the stems on the pumpkin and inserted the
stems into our jack o’lanterns.
Lots of fun for a rainy afternoon activity!! Mizz Mac
For more easy Halloween art projects, visit my store on www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/Gena-Mcwilliams.
