Many when you mention Van Gogh's sunflowers think of the one most popular painting of sunflowers in a vase with yellow and blue bakcground, but he actually did a series of sunflower paintings. There are five! He painted them while in Arles in 1888 - 1889.
I think this might be favorite of the year! Kindergarten took a look at Van Gogh’s sunflowers (all 5 of his paintings!) and we dug in. Some bubble wrap for textured flower middles. A textured black paper made a nice vase. We glued these all down and then talked about warm colors and painted the background, including over the vase. We talked about how a vase would look on a table and not just hovering over it as they like to typically draw. After this dried, the next class they textured yellow construction paper with oil pastel and cut loads of their own petals and ta-da — some gorgeous, large scale Van Gogh I continue to admire.
Check out all our Van Gogh resources in our shop! Including this one all about his sunflower paintings.
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