We looked closely at sunflowers from Mrs Bear's garden, the sunflower heads on the Science table and pictures of sunflowers on the internet. Then we cut out petals from newspaper and glues them around seed circles we had drawn on paper. When the glue was dry, we blended yellow and orange paint, and painted the petals starting at the centre and brushing to the end of each petal. We had to paint the petals several times to cover the newsprint.
After that, we crunched up little squares of tissue paper and glued them onto the centre of the flowers to resemble the sunflower seeds. The glue was very thick here and, in some cases, took three days to dry! We painted these seed circles with brown painted, dabbing the paint brush up and down to make sure that all the pink tissue was covered with brown.
To finish, we blended blue and purple paint to colour the background. We pulled up the petals where we could to paint underneath, and in other places tried very carefully to keep blue splodges off our yellow petals!
Here are a couple of finished sunflowers. You can see others on the Visual Art page.
After that, we crunched up little squares of tissue paper and glued them onto the centre of the flowers to resemble the sunflower seeds. The glue was very thick here and, in some cases, took three days to dry! We painted these seed circles with brown painted, dabbing the paint brush up and down to make sure that all the pink tissue was covered with brown.
To finish, we blended blue and purple paint to colour the background. We pulled up the petals where we could to paint underneath, and in other places tried very carefully to keep blue splodges off our yellow petals!
Here are a couple of finished sunflowers. You can see others on the Visual Art page.
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