Kindergarten create Eric Carle-inspired flower collages

Children painted papers using tempera. They were instructed to first paint the paper one color and to decorate it with another by either making lines, dots or criss cross lines all over the paper. 

Total focus...

Here are some slides from my Notebook presentation on the Smartboard:

 To demonstrate how simple shapes come together to make something more complex, I design a flower and then break it up. While doing my demonstration I will create the flower right before their eyes. Every child gets how shapes come together to make more complex images after this introduction.

Here is how the flower looks once I am done putting it together in front of them.

For when we added the details, we brainstormed what details we could add to our work.....the images, yes, are borrowed from Google images online....

Here is my flower again, after I have added some of the details kids suggested I add to my work. 

For all kinder classes I use a 3-4 step visual agenda to help  guide them. Here, Kids have to do three things during their 35 minute lesson. (1) add your details to your work. Kids have already started their flowers during the last class. (2) add glue all over your image at the end to help seal and protect the work. (3) place your work in the drying rack once done. 

The second day we worked on details. Children were to add anything in the background they wanted...such as butterflies, moon, sun, tree, plants, bugs, rocks, rain, etc. 

A garden full of flowers here....