Claude Monet is well known for his beautiful water scenes! This Monet Art Project
Monet Art Project Materials:
- Cardstock Paper
- Fingerpaint
- Painters Tape or Masking Tape
Monet Art Project for Kids:
Step 1: Build Your Bridge
For this craft, you’ll need some masking tape to make your bridge shape. I cut our tape in half to get thinner strips. You want to form the shape of the bridge using your masking tape. You can do this ahead of time for younger children if needed.
Continue building your bridge using small sections of tape for the slats. Try to add five or six of them across the bridge at equal intervals.
Step 2: Monet Finger Paint Art
Time to fingerpaint! Provide students with a rainbow of colors for them to dip their fingers in, then show them how to dab their finger multiple times to start filling in the canvas.
This is a great time to teach children about color blending and using similar colors (hues) together to create depth. Show children how to overlap their fingerprints to blend the different colors together.
Continue to fill in your canvas with a multitude of colors and blends. Don’t worry about painting over the tape. As long as it’s securly fixed to your paper the paint will not seep through.
Add more fingerprints over the bridge and below until your entire canvas is filled up.
Step 3: Allow to Dry
As tempting as it is to peel off the tape, set your art
Step 4: Peel to Reveal Your Masterpiece!
Once your art project has dried, carefully peel back the sections of tape to reveal Monet’s bridge! Mount these masterpieces to colored construction paper and hang up in your homeschool classroom or in your classroom bulletin board.
I’m going to do this with my class. If you have difficulty getting masking tape off, iron over it. It’s worth bringing your iron to school to get crisp results. I had to do this for another project.
Interesting Tip Edith, Thanks for sharing it!
Do you have an artist card for Monet?
Heating up masking tape with a hairdryer will also get it to come off without ripping! I learned this tip doing printmaking in college!
If you use painters tape (green) it will come off no problem.
green masking tape or the painters tape comes off easily