This art exploration doesn’t just cover crafting. It also includes math, science and fine motor skill-building. Your child will:

• Learn about shapes
• Create patterns
• Compare sizes
• Understand the part-to-whole relationship
• Problem-solve
• Connect to this lesson the fall season, weather and plants (leaves). Take a look outside (or go on a nature walk) and talk about what your child sees. Discuss the fall colors and the shapes of the leaves as they fall from the trees.
• Fine motor abilities – improve dexterity and eye-hand coordination though cutting and painting.

abstract shape-types of art.Ask your child to tell you what she sees when she looks at the circles. Use open-ended questions such as, “What’s going on in this painting?” or, “Why do you think the artist painted this way?”

Here is a great book for kids on Kadinsky and some Kadinsky stickers to enhance your unit:

Now it’s your child’s turn to create her own artwork! You’ll need:

• card stock paper (white and fall colors)
• scissors
• tempera paint (fall colors)
• paint brush
• clear-drying school glue

Pour the paint onto a palette. Or, use wax paper as an inexpensive alternative. Choose fall colors, such as red, yellow, orange and brown.

Paint a piece of white card stock paper, creating squares. Your child should fill the entire piece of paper with paint. Avoid sizing the squares too small. It will become a challenge for your child to fit
the leaves into the squares later on.

Cut leaves from the paper. Your child can create oval shapes in different sizes.

Glue a leaf down onto each square.

 

Paint another leaf onto each paper leaf. Your child can pick other colors, to give the artwork some contrast.