“Snowy Owl Collage” with Kindergarten started last Thursday at one of my schools (11/13/25)!
I brought this one back out from the vault with a new twist! I decided this time we’re going to add white tempera paint to the branches AND use a toothbrush to flick snowflakes all around the sky! My kindergartners today were like “whaaat? A toothbrush??” Haha a little confused on that one, but they were very excited to be able to flick paint!
So far on this fun 4 day lesson, Kindergarteners learned what a collage was and strengthened their fine motor skills by tearing small pieces of brown paper for the branch ( I drew the outline of the owl and branch ahead of time with a white colored pencil on black Sax brand paper).
We talked about how to glue the back of the torn paper, not the black background paper, (so we don’t put glue where we might not need it), overlapping, as well as texture.
Later on in the lesson, on day 4, they’ll be working on their fine motor skills even more with tracing circles and cutting them out with scissors for the owls eyes, and using a toothbrush to create falling ❄️❄️❄️
By the time they finish these, who knows- – we could very well be seeing some snow falling ourselves! I can’t believe Thanksgiving is already in less than 2 weeks? It feels like it wasn’t that long ago that I was just out walking with a pair of shorts on?!?!
I’ll be posting more details on this lesson with more photos of students working on them, and of their finished work in the next few weeks! (it’ll probably take 4 (40 min. ) art classes to complete. Stay tuned!!
Below are pics from previous years where students used a white crayon to add snow details rather than paint.
Learning Goals:
- Continue to strengthen fine motor skills (tearing, gluing, cutting, drawing)
- Can create a collage using torn pieces of paper, and define what a collage is
- Can define texture and show texture within their artwork
- Can define overlapping and show this in their artwork
- Connection to science/ Learn about owls
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