Dyed Flower Garden

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Grade Level

• Kindergarten

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Subject

• Art

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Length of Time

• 50 Minutes To An Hour

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Description

• In this lesson, you will teach students to create a dyed flower garden, discuss how plants grow and read Eric Carle's "Tiny Seed."

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Goals

• Students will learn:
  
  * How to cut a flower, leaf, stem and sun out of tissue paper.
  
  * How to draw dye from colored tissue paper by using vinegar.
  
  * Facts about how plants grow.

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Materials Needed

• * Large sheet of heavy, white art paper.
  
  * Colored tissue paper.
  
  * Vinegar.
  
  * Blunt scissors.
  
  * Paintbrushes.
  
  * One copy of Eric Carle's "A Tiny Seed."

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Procedure

• * Have students cut a flower, leaf, stem and sun out of colored tissue paper.
  
  * Give one sheet of art paper to each student.
  
  * Show students how to lay the tissue paper flower, leaf, stem and sun on the art paper.
  
  * Give each student a container of vinegar.
  
  * Show students how to hold the tissue paper cutouts with one hand and paint over them with vinegar with the paintbrush.
  
  * The dye from the colored tissue paper will stain the shapes on the white art paper.
  
  * While students are creating their dyed flower garden, discuss how plants grow. For instance they need soil, water and sun.
  
  * When the students have completed their project read Eric Carle's "A Tiny Seed."
  
  * Ask questions about plants and how they grow.

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Grading

• Students will be graded on participation in the project, attentiveness during the story and their answers to the questions on plants.
  
  Students may be given a small reward or a sticker can be placed on their dyed flower garden art project.

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