Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh

 

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SUNFLOWERS by Vincent Van Gogh

Shared by Verónica Huerga:

This activity was aimed at my three, four and five year-old kids from nursery school.
It was planned as a cross-curricular activity as they were studying Van Gogh with their nursery teacher.

First, they watched a video for kids about Van Gogh, in this way, we had our first approach to his life and his works of art.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lGEvm1Lve0&t=32s

Then, we chose some of his flower paintings to talk mainly about colours, asking simple questions like: 

-what colours can you see? 

-can you see blue? 

-where? 

and help them with the short answers:

-"Yes, I can// No, I can´t " or "I can see blue", etc.

Then, we carried on talking about the name of the flowers represented on the pictures like the sunflowers, lilies, poppies, to finally ask them:

- Do you like it? why? 

- what´s your favourite one? ",

 helping them with their answers.

The final activity was making a handcraft. 

Using finger paint and coffee filters they made their own versions of the paintings.