During class we talked about Vincent Van Gogh's life and his pieces of artwork. We mainly focused on his piece, "Starry Night." This piece was inspired by his famous "Starry Night." In order to create this piece of artwork, we took a black piece of construction paper to start out. The next step was to rip up pieces of tissue paper (assorted colors) and glue them down. Once we had the black sheet of construction paper covered in tissue paper we took our paint brush and modge-podge and covered all the pieces of tissue paper again to make sure they were secured down. Then I took a metallic marker and created the swirls, inspired by "Starry Night." Once the background was done, we took another sheet of black construction paper and cut out a city scene, or whatever landscape scene we wanted to. We cut out the silhouette and glued it down. Then I took a white crayon and drew the windows and the outline of the buildings.
An extension activity could be having the students pick a famous monument or famous city, and draw the silhouette of it. The background would be created the same way and the steps would be the same, they would just use a different silhouette. The project could be incorporated into Social Studies or History by having the students research on the monument or city and list facts about the city/monument they chose. The students could then present their project and then the other students would have a chance to learn facts about a monument and city as well!
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