Claude monet water lilies art projects

Below you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for a Monet art project for kids. Watercolor paint and crayons can make some very pretty water lilies.Save

More about Monet and his Water Lilies

Claude Monet was a French artist in the late 1800s. He was one of the first who wanted to share more of the impression of things he was painting, and how a particular painting might make you feel when you looked at it. This tutorial makes for an easy Monet art project for kids in that his loose and colorful look can be captured with just simple crayons and watercolors.

This is called a watercolor resist project, because the drawing that is made with crayons, will resist the paint that is brushed over it at the end. Though the process is simple (draw with crayons and then paint) there are a few tips I’d like to pass along so your students have the most success with their painting.

• Do use watercolor paper. It will make the paint colors look at least twice as bright as drawing paper. It’s the reason why it costs more than regular paper.

• Draw ONLY with crayons, no planning with a pencil first. The gray lines will show through the light crayon colors, and take away from the delicate look of the painting.

• Encourage students to press EXTRA hard when coloring. The flowers need to be filled in really well, so they don’t turn blue when the paint goes over them. And the white wave lines need to be really thick too so they show up well at the end.

That’s it! This is a great project for special events like fundraisers or art shows. The process is a simple one that all ages can enjoy, and the art that is created is bound to have a pretty and delicate look, thanks to just a few simple art supplies that happen to work together really well!

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“Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule” – Claude Monet

Our Claude Monet Water Lilies Art Project for Kids is open to breaking the rules. Using a piece of card and spoon for colour mixing, children can recreate their own impressionist water lily painting. And while our tool of choice is the spoon, children can explore and experiment with their hands, brushes, a sponge, scrap card or anything else they fancy trying to add texture and movement to the pond.

A spoon could be considered an unusual tool for exploring the works of famous artists. However, as you will soon find out, it blends the colours beautifully and smooths the paint as it spreads across the cardboard canvas, creating a ‘reflective’ surface that was key to Monet’s exploration of capturing patterns of changing light. The spoon can create swirls and movement, that naturally flows, almost like water.

Although a simple twist, it’s one that lends itself to adaption and can be easily applied within the home or classroom.

So let’s gather some old cardboard, paint, and a spoon, and get started!

Claude Monet Water Lilies Art Project for Kids: Materials

Thick Cardboard from an old box
Paint (Blue, White, Yellow)
A Spoon
Tissue Paper
Green Stockcard
Button
Scissors
PVA Glue

Claude Monet Water Lilies Art Project for Kids: Tutorial 

Step 1: Using a piece of cardboard, cut it into a pond like shape and add sporadically add blobs of blue, yellow and white paint across the surface.

Step 2: Spread the spoon across the surface, capturing the paint and blending, while spreading to across the surface.

Step 3: Swirl and move the paint across until the cardboard is completely covered.

Step 4: To add texture to smooth surface, try tearing the top layer of the cardboard to reveal the corrugated card to create prints across the ‘pond’.

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This Claude Monet Art Project is part of my second grade art curriculum. Introduce children to famous artworks and details about Claude Monet as they engage in their own outdoor drawing experience and create a Monet-inspired water garden studio art project.

Famous Artist Series from Kids Art Projects 101

This approach is awesome because it layers art history connections with guided instruction about the elements of art and principles of design. The scripted PowerPoint format can be easily utilized in a variety of settings. In this video, I share specific tips and considerations to help you implement the unit with ease.

Watch the video, or read the transcript below if you prefer.

~VIDEO TRANSCRIPT~

Hi Everyone,

I am excited to present to you the ninth installation in our famous artist series. This one is all about Claude Monet. The purpose of this video is to give you an overview of how I’ve set up this unit so that when you start it with your kiddos, you can hit the ground running. So let’s dive right in!

CLAUDE MONET ART PROJECT SESSION 1

I’ve organized the unit into four sessions, ideally 40 minutes each. Of course, if your setting has a different amount of time, just get a layout of how it works and then see how you can make it work for your setting.

So for the first session, you will be presenting a digital storybook. In the digital storybook, you’ll present a ton of paintings by Claude Monet. You’ll be giving kids just a general overview of what his interests were as an artist.

They will learn that he was incredibly interested in how light, the weather, and the season affect the way things look. He was notorious for painting the same things over and over in different lighting, like the haystacks that were near his house in France. You’ll also learn that he painted outside a lot. Get the kids familiar with the term “plein air painting

Beautiful Monet’s Water Lilies Level: 1-2

Instructions

Monet’s Water Lilies

Art Lesson Plan by Renee Ellenberger

BACKGROUND:

Oscar-Claude Monet, better known as Claude Monet, was a famous French painter in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He is best known for founding Impressionism. Impressionism is an art movement that focuses on small yet visible brushstrokes and a natural depiction of light. Monet’s Water Lilies is a collection of paintings of water lilies which captured the essence of the Impressionist movement. Monet pays special attention to how the water reflects lights in his oil paintings. Monet’s Water Lilies, along with some of his other works, can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and various other museums all over the world.

OBJECTIVE:

Each student will use different colored tissue paper and muffin liners to create a work of art based on Monet’s Water Lilies with a score of 3 or better on a 4 point rubric. Students will work on fine motor skills while using scissors and glue. Students will learn about a famous artist and art movement.

NATIONAL CORE ART STANDARDS:

Anchor Standard #2
-Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Anchor Standard #3
-Refine and Complete artistic work.

Anchor Standard #4
-Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for
presentation

INSTRUCTIONS:

Students have displayed sufficient skill in using scissors and glue. They have further engaged in other lesson where their fine motor skills have been proven to be at the appropriate level. They have also explored other types of art while displaying an understanding of the art elements. Reinforcement of the idea that artists experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches. With the skills and lessons they have learned, they will create a piece based on a famous painting. They will cut tissue paper, glue