3 Easy Steps to Painting Lovely Spring Daffodils
As the spring season approaches, it becomes the perfect time to show my students the easy steps to painting lovely spring daffodils. After all, daffodils are one of the “flowers of the season” and they’re actually quite beautiful. For this art activity, I decided to incorporate several books to help give my students inspiration and boost their creativity.
Connecting Artwork to Children’s Books
I’ve always loved doing this in my classroom and highly recommend that other teachers do it as well. People typically think of art as crayons, markers, and learning art terminology, but there’s so much more to it than that. Hence, why arts integration is one of my strong suits. Using rich literature in the art room not only brings other subjects into the mix, but also helps with giving students a variety of ways to learn. Below are the three books I chose to put together with this art project.
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The Spotty Daffodil (by Rose Mannering)
This picture book
The Daffodil Who Couldn't Dance (by Jeff Sammon)
This book
That's Not a Daffodil! (by Elizabeth Honey)
This book
3 Easy Steps to Painting Lovely Spring Daffodils
Keep in mind that this project offers so much. From learning how to draw basic shapes to making connections with books, your students are getting more than you may think from doing this! Follow the steps below to do this fun (and beautiful) art project with your students.
Step 1: Draw with basic shapes.
Each of the shapes used are common and should be well-known to students:
The body is a U-shape.
The top is a wobbly circle.
The body is surrounded by six or seven basic shapes resembling a leaf or drop of water.
Then, add a center oval in the top wobbly circle. Continue by adding a basic stem and leaves, the petals, etc. It’s okay for students to overlap if they draw more than one on the page.
Step 2: Paint.
When it comes to painting, any kind of paint will do. We used tempera paints in spring-like colors. Move onto the next step once the paint has dried.
Step 3: Trace.
After the paint dries, trace with a black permanent marker, a black crayon, or a black oil pastel.
And that’s it! Let me know if you tried this with your students and it turned out!