Description: The students learned about the impressionist painter Claude Monet and his water lily paintings. The supplies you will need are watercolor paper, watercolor paints and brushes, salt, crayons, pink, white, and green paper. For this, you will need to have prepared a few things beforehand to make it easier for the students and you. Precut the pink paper into 1 in strips, cut the green paper into Pac Man shapes, and cut the white paper into squares around 5 x 5 in. Have each student grab 1 piece of watercolor paper, 1 green Pac Man shape, 1 white square, and 1 pink strip. First thing you should have the students do is the watercolor for the background. Tape the watercolor paper to the table (this will help to keep it steady, create a nice border, and keep the paper from wrinkling too much). Before taping, stick the tape to your clothes a few times so it isn't as sticky and there will be less of a chance that it will rip the paper when you take it off. Wet the entire paper and add blotches of blue, purple, and green. When the students are done painting, and the paper is STILL WET, come around and sprinkle some salt on the paper (if you trust your students, you can let them sprinkle the salt, just make sure they don't use too much). Set it aside to dry. On the green Pac Man, draw veins and add shading with various green crayons (I added a border on mine to make it pop). Have the students draw and cut out a flower from the white square and curl the petals with a pencil. Color orange along the long edge of the pink strip. Make lots of tiny cuts along the orange edge to make a frayed look and roll it like a cinnamon roll. Have a hot glue station ready where the students bring up their pink and orange rolls so you can hot glue them to the center of their white flowers. Glue the flower to the lily. Once the watercolor is dry (might have to dry overnight) glue the lily pad to the watercolor painting with white liquid glue and set it to dry.
Extension Activity: You can use this as a sort of science experiment with salt. The salt attracts, soaks in, the water making a small pool. Using the watercolor can help make this effect more visible.
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