Little “E” made spirals in white on the paper after I painted the snowman’s head and body. I said the words “Head” and “Body” and told her they were circles.
On the picture below you can see she painted her own snowman on the second picture and I added stick arms on the picture in the place she indicated.
I asked her if it had a nose and she used the orange paint to make one on the page.
“X” is now 4 and approached his observational paintings in a different way. Here is a fantastic picture of him looking at the snowman and trying to decide what he might need to add to his picture.
He offered much more to the conversation and pointed parts out to me that he thought should be added. He talked about the colours that he could use, the winter clothes that were added on the snowman.
We had many different types of snowmen painted. It was lovely to watch the children look at the same object and paint their own interpretation of it.
- Paint a picture using a real visual prompt
- Make observations about objects and talk about details.
- Look at some other items linked to children’s individual interests that they could use for observational drawing and painting.
- Offer different materials to make observational sketches, paintings, crayoning, models etc
Little “X” was very focused in this activity and noticed small details on the snowman. He made links and worked hard at painting his picture and making it as complete as possible.
- Communication and language
- Understanding the world.
- Expressive Art and Design.