crafts for kids

This week we revisited our Famous Artist studies,
and added Monet to our list!

If you’re new to our blog we’ve been using The World’s Greatest Artist series to
take a mini-survey of various artists and their work.

It’s a pretty low-key approach.
We read the book. Look at the art.
Then we make our own.

The real learning occurs over the following weeks/months/years
in which I bring up things like;

“Hey Bubba, Look at those water lilies, they look just like that artist….” or
“Hey Sissy, check out that billboard! They are using that cool Pop-Art style…..”

And the conversations and natural learning run wild from there.
You just can’t keep them from telling you what they remember.

way better then a paper test if you ask me ;)

Well, this week we broke out the masking tape
(inspiration via: Frugal Family Fun Blog)

And we broke out the paint.

We tried our best to be patient:

And we were rewarded with these beautiful representations of
Monet’s Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies

These are keepers for sure!

Check out the Full PhotoTutorial,
and more Famous Artist Crafts here