We Made A Butterfly!

Working With Preschoolers is Always So Much Fun!!!
I had a blast with this group of 3-6 year olds.  This is the process we used to create a butterfly for their classroom.

First, we talked about what a butterfly looks like.

We decided our butterfly needed an antenna.  

And our butterfly wings needed patterns.











We learned that oil pastels resist watercolor paint because oil and water don't mix.  We learned how to draw with the pastels and paint over them with the paint.








We picked colors for our butterfly (we decided to use rainbow colors), and made patterns and pictures out of those colors.

We cut our pattern paintings into pieces, and glued them down to create a patterned butterfly.

Almost done! (That's our last years project in the background)

This was the class with the finished butterfly.  I think they did a wonderful job!