Bird Painting on Sheet Music Background

These are the detailed steps for the bird painting. About 15 children divided  into two sessions enjoyed this lesson during the holidays.

Instructions:

Put the following materials together: Canvas board or strong cereal box paper, photocopies or prints of music, calendar or magazine pictures of birds, modge podge, acrylic paints, containers for water, brushes.



Each student cuts or tears the sheet music and glues it onto the canvas, using a brush and modge podge. The modge podge must cover the front of the print too, to seal it. (Wash the brush well afterwards!)


After drying, paint the blue sky around the border and cover small areas of the paper too.

 

Paint a white form to give the bird an opaque background.

 

 

 

 

Paint the leaves to look like a border, using two colours of green, and continue to finish the bird.



 

Done!

This class was conducted during holiday times, when a few parents were looking for pleasant activities for their children. I was pleased that the kids were so interested in the project and left with such lovely bird paintings.

 

In the next blog, I will tell you how my very small workspace lead to the creation of a wonderful new course for children!