Primary Color Parrots!

Kindergarten has been working to complete their first project!  One the first day of school, we learn the primary colors and color a simple worksheet that allows me to gauge fine motor skills ability levels and ability to follow directions.  During the next class, we began these adorable primary color parrots.  I was looking to do a different primary color painting lesson this year and our school theme is pirates, so parrots were perfect!  I found the basic idea on Pinterest and adapted it to teach additional art skills and make them even cuter!  

On the second day of the lesson, we painted the red and blue pieces, focusing on "grabbing" paint, painting technique, primary colors, and clean up procedures.  On the final day of the lesson, we drew the eyes, wings, and beak together using black and white oil pastels.  The kids LOVE how well these show up on the painted surfaces and how their little parrots come alive once they have faces.  I had already stapled the two paper plate halves together.  Students selected one strip of paper in each primary color and practiced using glue sponges to attach the pieces as the tail.  I displayed some of them for Open House and hung others in the window in the classroom.