Tissue Paper Monet Art Projects

Teaching kids about famous artist Monet with this fun Monet art projects. This easy-to-make tissue paper craft makes a beautiful Monet Art Project for Kids that will brighten up any room while helping to explore a famous artists for kids while having fun creating beautiful art, slowing down to appreciate the pretty things around us, and learning to express themselves too. This art projects for kids is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students.

Monet art projects

Monet is one of my favorite artists so I really enjoyed showing my children his works of art & learning about him together. This simple Monet art project is lots of fun to make and really helps capture this famous impressionist artworks style. He was worried less about how things looked exactly, and more about the basic feel – the impression the scene left on the viewer. He did several different scenes, but he particularly enjoyed painting his pond filled with lilies. In fact, Claud Money painted 250 water lily paintings! This water lily art project perfectly captures this famous French artist in a memorable way for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, and grade 6 students.

This is just one of the many famous artists for kids projects we have made. Letting children create their own versions of famous art projects is a great way to help them learn about art history as well as how to express themselves. By doing art projects for kids inspired by artists that are not intended to replicate the actual painting children wont feel like they failed if it doesn’t look like the famous artists paintings which will allow them to learn, express themselves, and become confident artists too!

Monet Art for Kids

I remember going to the Musee d’Orsay with my Dad growing up to see all the beautiful Impressionist paintings. I was always loved the beauty of his outdoor scenes he loved to paint. His pictures are beautiful printed in books, but there is nothing like seeing them in person! Then you can appreciate the Impressionist style better. Find a Monet in a museum near you

Monet Art Project for Kids

Monet made lots of pictures of his water garden in Giverny – the water & bridge, lily pads, etc.. So we decided to make our own Monet. We made our masterpiece on canvas (just like great artists!!) We tore up pieces of dark blue, light blue, light green, and light purple tissue paper.

Supplies

canvase (any size you like, but we used a small one to save on money, space, and time)
tissue paper in dark blue, light blue, green, purple, white, and pink
glue

Tissue Paper Craft for Kids

Then we glued them (making sure to overlap them to get the Impressionistic look) to the canvas.

We then made lily pads by using a cup as a guide and cutting out a triangle from it. We then crumpled them up a little & glued them to our masterpiece. We made larger crumbled white flower with light pink glued in the center.

Famous artists for kids

The water lilies just pop off the page making a really cool effect in this famous artists art project. And it truly produces a beautiful water scene kids will be so proud of.

Here is one of our finished masterpieces! I LOVE it! It looks very cool and true to what we were trying to achieve.

This tissue paper monet project is a must try whether you are looking for a fun art project for kids, learning about famous artists as part of your school or homeschool curriculum, or looking for a fun monet craft idea with your classical conversations co-op.

Famous artists for kids

We continue to use this wonderful program called Child-size Masterpieces to play a memory-type game with famous artwork. The program uses museum quality postcards of famous artwork. The kids match them up first with the exact same picture, then by artists, and eventually by genre. There are I believe 6 books and each adds to the complexity. By the time the kids finish they will be familiar not only with a variety of artwork, artists, and styles, but will be able to match artists to their artwork.

We completed the free printable Famous Artist Report Template to add to our notebook on the famous artists we have learned about.

Monet Books for Kids

We read good books, the start of any lesson for us! Some simply showed Monet’s work with a couple phrases, others were told like a story so the kids understood who Monet was, all of them were filled with beautiful impressionistic Monet art!

We have LOTS of other fun famous Artists for kids projects you won’t want to miss!

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