The Very Hungry Artists

It is lessons like this that make any teacher just smile and pat themselves on the back, and then thank their lucky stars. My Hudson Heights class is made up of a group of siblings who all love making art. This week we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle. We looked at how he used painted paper to create his beautiful collages on each page. Then we made our own decorative paper by creating rubbings. This was so much fun once we realized that our shoes had fun patterns on the bottom! (Except for mine, I had boring grown-up shoes) Then we cut out designs from our decorative paper and glued them down to make postcards. our postcards were sheets of bristol I had cut into 6×9 inch rectangles.

I also brought some pre-cut shapes made of colorful construction paper, in case anyone wanted to add solid colored shapes to their collage as well. What was so flattering about this Sunday lesson was that no one artist wanted to stop. They were surprised when they realized I had picked up the crayons, and ecstatic that they could keep the remaining decorated paper.