Ms. G-H's Art Studio: Kinder Pumpkins!

The Kinder classes took a field trip to a pumpkin patch in October, so I figured we should look at drawing and painting pumpkins! I found a neat lesson online and tried it out with the kids*. First, we looked at photos of pumpkins, and discussed how they were neither circles or ovals- instead they had segments and were rather bumpy! We talked about how "real" artists look for what's really there- that they don't pretend everything is a set shape. We drew two small ovals, one at the top of the page, and one at the bottom. Then, we drew an imaginary straight line down the middle of the page, connecting the two ovals. From then on, every line we drew had to be curved! We created the segments of the pumpkin. Finally, we reviewed mixing primary colors to get secondary colors, and began to experiment with tempera paint to find colors that reminded us of pumpkins. The kids cut the pumpkins out, and then cut and glued faces out of black and white paper, to create jack o lanterns!