Pineapples and Printmaking! Oh My!

 This post is a bit out of order.  I will get back here and add the two previous lessons as soon as I can.  But briefly - we did a lesson previously that studied pattern.  So...to reinforce the idea of pattern and see what they remembered we looked closely at the fruit pineapples.  Why??  Because pineapples are full of wonderful patterns.  From the colors, shapes and lines - patterns are abundant.  After discussing the many different patterns of a pineapple we learned how to draw them.  We discussed how all the shadows on the pineapple have cool colors (blue, purple and green).  They used these colors to outline and add shadows to their own drawings.  They then used bright and warm colors of brown, red, orange and yellow to add the highlights and complete the pineapple.  They finished their artwork by adding a table line and a dark cool shadow under the fruit so it appeared to be sitting and not floating.

Next Kindergarten students are learning about the printmaking process...see description in picture directly below: