Kindergarten- ABC Butterfly

I wanted to do a basic watercolor project for kindergarten and this was the result. Most of the students have not used watercolor before, so I had to teach them about wetting your brush beforehand, twirling it on the paint pallet gently (I"twirl your brush like a ballerina"), making sure the brush stays wet ("don't let your brush get crazy hair"), and how to rinse their brushes when switching colors ("bounce it in the water like a po-go stick 10 times").

To start the project, we read ABC Animal Jamboree as a class. The students loved this book especially the shark. We then drew the butterfly step by step with a crayon, staring with a circle head, adding the body, and then the wings. I reminded the students to draw big because the bigger they draw, the more they get to paint. After the butterfly was draw students wrote all the letters they knew inside the wings.

Students then painted using tempra cakes. The colors of paint I have consist of yellow, blue, green, and red. Some students realized that they could mix to make new colors. Here are the results.