This project was part of a unit on Vincent van Gogh. For this particular project we started out with a black sheet of paper and a multitude of colors of tissue paper. Students were told to cut out pieces of tissue paper to create their skyline with. The teacher encouraged students to use shapes, swirls, etc. that were similar to the style of Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night. After it was cut out, students glued the tissue paper to their background using just a little bit of glue. Then the entire paper was painted over using a clear adhesive and left to dry. The next step in this project was to take another piece of construction paper and cut out a cityscape from it. Once cut, students used oil pastels to draw windows, doors, etc. into the cityscape. The last step before gluing the two pieces together consisted of using oil pastels to accent the tissue paper on the skyline.
An extension activity for this project would be to have the students study a city and create a cityscape for that particular city. For example, if a student were to be studying Paris, they would include the Eifel Tower. Another extension activity for this project would be to study stars, and have students include a constellation into their skyline.
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