Picasso's Cats

I am always looking for a new and unique lesson to use, especially for my kindergartners. They are with me for 50 minutes, instead of 30 minutes, and we have so much time to work on projects than other grades. I was searching my blog roll and stumbled across a lesson posted by Painted Paper on Picasso's Cat and Wounded Bird. Even though they are 5 and 6 I showed them the famous Picasso painting, but before I flashed a picture of a cat eating a bird we discussed the relationship between a cat and bird. I also discussed what the word wounded meant. Actually the students were not scared of the artwork and I tried to focus more on the shape of the cat and if that is how a real cat looks.

After the first day of drawing I realized I would need to create a pattern for the head of the cat to ensure they don't draw a tiny cat.

Once they traced the head I  demonstrated how to draw the remainder of the body. Student's used pencil to draw the cat then outlined it with a face permanent marker.

I gave each table a tray of black, white, brown and gray temprea paint. I demonstrated how to not mix the colors on the tray but on your paper to make a mutli colored cat or a one colored cat.



This week we cut out the cat, added detail using oil pastels and painted the background.

We took blue, green-blue and white tempra paint and sponged it on to a blue piece of construction paper. This created the sky behind the cat. The different blues looked interesting on the blue paper. Stay tuned for the finished prodcut!