Kindergarten Water Lilies

Kindergarteners created these water lilies using collage and watercolor techniques. First, we looked at Claude Monet’s painting Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge (1897). The kindergarteners made wonderful observations, and they were impressed to discover that this was the artist’s own backyard. To create their water lilies, they used a wet-on-wet painting technique, where they wet the paper and let the paints drip and blend. Finally, they cut and glued the petals onto a lily pad template.

Additionally, they used their fingerprints to create little frogs to sit on their lily pads.