Nighttime Pumpkins

Love this project! We read Lio Lionni's book, Little Blue and Little Yellow, about two best friends. One day when they snuck out to be together they hugged and Little Blue and Little Yellow turned green! Our painting challenge involved drawing realistic looking pumpkins and painting them using only red, yellow and blue paint! 

This excited them and they were anxious to begin. The mixing was not to happen in the paint palette rather on their paper! Working on using long brushstrokes or ribbons of paint, they blended the red and yellow to make beautiful shades of orange. For the leaves, they dipped into the tiniest amount of blue and layered yellow to create varying shades of green. The stem was a mix of all three colours. 

The following day, they cut out their leaves and pumpkins and glued them on black construction paper. Using chalk pastels soft, glowing moons and stars were added to illuminate the night skies. Tendrils were created by rolling long strips of green paper and pipe cleaners around their pencils.