Folk Art Lighthouses.

 

(Fourth grade work)

This is another lighthouse themed lesson. I chose this one this year from Deep Space Sparkle. We just added a healthy dose of Modge Podge and some real sea shells collected for me from a coworker's trip to the beach.

First we look at some folk art and discuss how artists simplified images into symbols to create a child-like world.

Next we drew the island, waves, and some clouds and painted them with tempera cakes.

We drew a tiny lighthouse and a whale with Sharpie and colored and pasted to the picture. The children added their own details, like boats, swimmers, and of course sharks to the scene. 

We pasted on a handful of seashells. For the first couple of classes I set out dishes of Modge Podge for the children to coat on their paintings. It makes them look like acrylic art. I stopped using it because of poor classroom ventilation. Even with both doors to my art trailer open the smell was pretty awful and chemically. I won't be using any more Modge Podge. But the one's who managed to get it on have beautiful shiny artwork. This was a favorite lesson of many of the children. They all turned out quite nice.
Fourth Grade work: