I used to do it with kindergarten, but this year it seemed to fall flat with them. Since both grades did Chinese Dragon puppets last time, I continued the Chinese theme with both grades as well.
I showed a PowerPoint to my students, that had photos of Wang Yani as a little girl/artist. It included photos of many of her monkey paintings. Then we looked at a short YouTube video of her.
I led them through the steps of painting with a bamboo brush and painting a monkey. Then I let them paint another picture of their choice of animals.
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Little kids are so expressive with the bamboo brush. I really like teaching it too.
Do you find that some kids are disinterested maybe due to lack of color? While other kids are enchanted by it?
I have students who beg for this lesson year after year.
I love this lesson too. The kids always get so quiet while they are doing Chinese brush painting! I do a bamboo and then dragon painting with my third graders.
Color never seems to be an issue when I tell them that the Chinese often only used black. Then I put out a block of black and a block of red at each group. No problemo.
When I have put out a palette with a variety of colors and tell them to just use black and red, then we have problems.
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