Thank you to Katie Morris here for this fun and beautiful lesson! Students loved it and the results are wonderful. :) I had students choose blue or purple background paper and gave them each a blue permanent marker. (I get a lot of "my mom and dad don't even let me USE permanent markers at home!" at that point. :)) I begin by drawing the center oval and then they do the same, then we draw the stem, and add the other sections to the pumpkin. I let them add leaves, and vines if they wanted to. I just love love love the vines they add on. They really go crazy with those! Then we color in order from top to bottom with construction paper crayons. I try to get them to overlap the color to make it look blended, but it doesn't always happen. The order of coloring is white, yellow, peach, orange, and red-orange. Some of the classes we had time to add the blue shadow at the bottom. Then they color the stem and leaves and voila! Cute little pumpkins!
And here is one more little pumpkin I must introduce! ...And the reason I haven't posted in about a million years! I've been quite busy spending most of my hours with my little baby boy, Wyatt! :)
What a beautiful project! The students did a great job!
ReplyDeleteYour little guy is adorable! Some of my students give me the "not allowed at home" excuse for everything from sharpies to scissors!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! I also just taught Katie's lesson plan to our third graders. I liked how you used the blue marker, colored in the vines and used different colored papers. Thanks for posting!
ReplyDeleteLove the color intensity. I see you mention using construction paper crayons. Which brand do you prefer for color intensity and contrast? I want to purchase but Prang was disappointing. Does the end result also involve a particular brand of construction paper as well? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI use crayola crayons and try-ray paper.
DeleteOops meant Tru-ray!
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