1st & 2nd Grade Project: Underwater Painting

In 1st and 2nd grade we began the year with a multiple step collage/painting.  Our first step was to paint the sea floor ( or sand ) and the ocean above it.  We used watercolor, focusing on how to hold and use our brushes and how to use water to spread the paint.

 Our next step was to draw our fish.  We used some basic lines to make our fish's body, but once that was done our students and their imaginations took over their fish's design.

We then cut the fish out and pasted them to our now dry backgrounds.

Next we needed our seaweed, so students were given green construction paper and we drew and cut out our seaweed.

Our last step was to cut out and past the seaweed onto our ocean scene.

As an extra detail students were given markers, they then added other things that you could find in the ocean
to their artwork.

This project, though lengthy is one students enjoyed working on and were very interested in each time they came to class.