Van Gogh Chairs

Materials:
Card (this could be a piece of recycled card or the back of a cereal box), Pencil, Colours (felt pen, coloured pencils, sharpies etc), Tape, Craft Knife (with adult supervision).

Watch the YouTube demo video and create your very own 3D Van Gogh Chair!

Student Samples

Van Gogh - Starry Nights

I did a lot of discussion before starting this project. We talked about how you could see the different swirls and lines of paint and how the painting created a sense of movement.
The students (year 1 and 2), then used blue, yellow, white and black acrylic paint on a sheet of A4 black paper. I asked them to cover the whole piece of paper and to not worry about the 'tree' or houses in the foreground.

The next week, we went back into the painting with black oil pastel to add to the extra details. 

I am still stunned by their amazing results!

Skye - Year 2

Humphrey - Year 2

Van Gogh Sunflower Bowls

Well, school holidays are just about to finish and this is one of my project ideas for this coming term (I will post more photos when we manage to finish them!)

Update: I have just finished this project with a group of Year 4's and 5's - the results are stunning and they really love their finished bowls!

Van Gogh's Starry Nights

I did a lot of discussion before starting this project with a Year1/2 group. We talked about the colours, shapes and the type of brush strokes used. They then used white, blue, yellow and black acrylic paint and painted onto black paper. I asked them to cover their entire paper with the swirly sky, moon and stars and not to worry about the 'tree' or houses in the foreground. In the next session they worked back into their drawings with oil pastels to add extra detail to their sky and add the 'tree' and buildings.