Our Jack O'Lanterns

I try to plan art projects where the kids get to add on to their knowledge of creating.  This time they got to work more with mixing colours.  They were able to mix the paint on their palettes and then layer it on their papers.  When the paintings were dry we got to practice cutting.  We went through a lot of black paper to achieve the looks we were going for. 

We started with yellow, orange and brown paint.

We mixed and mixed and mixed the paint.

We painted right to the edge of the paper.

The paintings turned out beautiful.

Then we cut some black paper and turned them into jack o'lanterns.

We cut out our own eyes, mouths and stems.

Don't they look cute under our apple tree.