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Rainforest Art
FullName: Cheryl Email: rootswings526982@aol.com date:: 04/03/03 Area: Rain Forest- Art Idea: Rain Forest Product Collage You will need: Construction Paper, glue, paintbrushes, coffee, tea leaves (from inside tea bags), sugar. Place the items out for the children to smell and explore. Let them paint glue to construction paper and sprinkle these items onto the glue. (We use recycled items-- for example, I am quite the coffee drinker, so after brewing coffee, I place the grinds in a shallow container to dry overnight and use them for this project. I also open up the used tea bags with the children to see what is in them and use them for this project.). FullName: Cheryl Email: rootswings526982@aol.com date:: 04/03/03 Area: Rain Forest- Art Idea: Emergent Layer Art Ideas Handprint Tree Tops Put out green, yellow and white finger-paint for the children to use to create different shades of green. Hang their creations on the tops of the walls for the tops of trees. You can also hang brown paper on the wall below them to create tree trunks. Painting with Trees Roll a newspaper page, starting at one corner, to the other corner. Tape in place once rolled. Peel sections of paper from edge (like peeling a banana). Do this to a few sections and use them to paint with. When done painting, you can hang not only the children's paintings, but their freshly painted newspaper trees (they may look more like ferns!) Coffee Filter Butterflies You will need; round coffee filters, markers, colored pipe cleaners, spray bottles with water. Let children decorate filters as little or as much as they want with the markers. When done, spray with water bottle and watch the colors run, mix and create new colors. Let dry overnight. Pinch coffee filters in middle so that they resemble a bow-tie shape, wrap pipe cleaner around and leave ends out to look like antennae (I did this part as my children are very young, but they do like trying!). You can hang them from the ceilings with clear fishing line and paper clips (I actually clipped the paper clips to the curtains as well). Be sure to write the child's name on the filter in pen somewhere prior to doing this activity if you wish to send them home! Rain Forest Mural Have children paint a shower curtain in bright colors. When dry, hang on a wall for a great Rain Forest Background or Bulletin Board! FullName: Cheryl Email: rootswings526982@aol.com date:: 04/03/03 Area: Rain Forest- Art Idea: Canopy Layer Art Ideas Cheetahs and Jaguars hang out on branches of trees in the Rain Forest looking for their prey! Give children yellow and orange construction paper, scissors, black paint and 2 wiggley-eyes to create their own. Instruct them on how to make thumbprints (or index prints) onto the paper. (I prefer process art over pre-cutting the shapes, but you could do that as well). WOW! Look at those LEAVES! After reviewing Rain Forest Books, put out different white construction paper, sponges and green paint (many different shades) for creating leaves. Create a Creature Place out miscellaneous arts and crafts items you have: scrap paper, sequins, feathers, etc., and glue and have the children create their own creature. When done they can name it and give you a description that you can write on a card to hand on or place near their creature. Hanging Toucans Don't know what to do with all those extra CD's that come in the mail from certain internet providers?!! Think know more! Ask parents to donate them to you. Give them to the children with feathers, glue and wiggle eyes and you'll have some great looking toucans! FullName: Cheryl Email: rootswings526982@aol.com date:: 04/03/03 Area: Rain Forest- Art Idea: The third layer of the Rain Forest is the Understory. It is pretty much the part you would see when walking through! There are much flora and fauna to see! Bromeliads Have children decorate white construction paper with crayons or markers. Then cut one long edge of the paper with those crazy edged scissors. Cut a second one a little narrower than the first (one strip should be about 1 inch wide and the other more than an inch). Fit the large one into a paper cup, fit the next one on the outside of the first. Put some water in the paper cup and place a plastic frog in there. Let the children know that Bromeliads are very helpful to frogs. When they fill up with rain, mother frogs carry their tadpoles on their backs to a bromeliad, and put them in. They stay there until they turn into frogs. She only puts one tadpole into a flower. Forest Animal Sponge painting Using animal sponges, paint onto white paper and hang when dry. FullName: Cheryl Email: rootswings526982@aol.com date:: 04/03/03 Area: Rain Forest- Art Idea: The 4th and final layer of the Rain Forest is the Forest Floor...home to many preschoolers' favorite things...Insects and Bugs! Egg Carton Caterpillars Paint egg cartons and add pipe cleaners for legs and antennae. Ladybugs Paint Paper plates with red paint that is mixed with a little bit of white glue. Give the children a hole puncher to punch holes into black paper to stick on their ladybugs. Snakes Make snakes as many ways as you can think of! Stuff old socks and glue on fabric and wiggle or felt eyes. Twist long strips of brown paper grocery bags. Paint Green...let dry. Paint again with other colors for stripes, glue on a tongue and eyes cut out by the children. Use your favorite clay recipe and let the children develop their muscles while rolling out a snake. Bake the clay and paint the next day. Contact_FullName: Dawn FullName: Mary Ellen Email: ron.vance@att.net date:: 03/12/02 Area: Rainforest Art Idea: After reading the story the Kapok Tree and discussing what kinds of things would be found in a rainforest, the children then made drawings in crayon of something they might see in a rainforest. After completing the crayon drawing, we then took diluted liquid water colors and made it "rain" on their pictures. We used eye droppers but you could let them just paint the entire picture. After the pictures dried, the children dictated a few sentences to me about their picture and I assembled the pictures to make a class book.
7-10-00For our Rainforest week I read The Great Kapok Tree and talked about the rainforest as well as showing pictures. The next day I asked the class of Kindergarteners to draw a picture of the rainforest and boy did they turn out great. Then I traced a picture of a parrot and had them glue small scraps of different colored construction paper to it. The final outcome was a colorful parrot, like those in the rainforest!
6-13-00Teach children the concept of symmetry by placing their handprint (using washable tempura paint) on a 46 degree angle in one half of a piece of paper. Fold the other half over making the two wings of the butterfly symmetrical. Place a colorful straw in the middle for the body and use pipe cleaners for the antennae.
5-28-00This year my pre-K class constructed a Rainforest in the classroom! We used 4 carpet tubes as the trees (they fit perfectly over a child's little tykes table). All the children helped paint them brown. We used netting and crepe paper as the tree tops. We made snakes, monkeys, tree frogs, and butterflies for our rainforest. We also made a waterfall. We used a large and long piece of bulletin board paper and had the children take off their shoes and socks and step in blue paint and skate across the paper. This made a neat effect of a waterfall! They really had fun with this unit.
4-15-00Friendship Butterflies Have each child trace both of his/ her hands. Have them exchange one of their hands with another child. Tape two hand prints together to make a friendship butterfly. Paint with sponge paint or markers.
Date: 3-15-00Rain Forest trees- Use paper towel or toilet paper rolls and have the children paint them brown. After drying, I made various leave sizes and the children cut them and stuffed them so they come out of the top of the trees. Cut slits about 1 1/2 to 2" up from the bottom and the trees will stand up in your rain forest.
2-16-00Hand and feet Parrots- (I'm not sure where I got this idea but I tried it and it turned out real cute.) Trace the child's foot and have them cut it out- this will be used for the birds body. (We used green for the body.) Trace his/her hands on red, blue, yellow, orange, etc construction paper and cut out- these will be used for the wings and tail. Glue hands to the side of foot shape for wings. Kids may want to use real feathers for the tail since this requires lots of cutting. We used multi-colored feathers for the tail instead of hands since the kids got sick of cutting out so many hands and they loved it! Last, draw on a face and feet. It took some time but they turned out so pretty and colorful!
ideaPainting life size drawings of animals and stuffing them with recycled newspaper to give a 3D effect.
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