Reflections

This a lesson straight off the deep space sparkle website.  Pattie from the site recommends this lesson for kindergarteners, but I adapted it for first grade.

The first day we drew the ground line and the waves. We then used pre-cut squares to make the buildings. The paper left over from the buildings we used for roofs, doors, windows, etc.

The second day of class we drew the reflections under the buildings and painted them the color that matched the buildings. The rest got painted blue!

First grade work:

 

I also did a shortened version of this lesson for a class that had missed a day of art. We used smaller paper and only painted:

First grade work: