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THIRD GRADE - LESSON PLAN 1

Flower Power

Students will learn to paint or draw realistic flowers using complimentary colors and utilize the entire page.

Materials and equipment:

• 8" x 10.5" art paper provided by Art to Remember • Paint (semi-moist watercolor or tempera paint), oil pastels or markers ( basic watercolors not recommended)

Resource materials:

• Flowers, silk flowers, calendars and artists floral paintings such as Georgia O’Keefe.

Step 1: Choose a flower shape and draw it very large to the edge of the paper in pencil.

Step 2: Using bright colors fill in the flower image. Hint: be creative - they don’t have to be the real flower color. Make your flower your favorite color.

Step 3: Carefully color in the background with a contrasting color.

Step 4: Optional – outline the flower image in a dark color.

Step 5: Print student’s name legibly at least an inch from the edge of the paper so the name will not be lost in printing.

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