Painting a blue horse @ WBCL

"The artist who painted a blue Horse" one of my favorite author illustrators for all ages! We talked about how he creates his work then the group painted a horse in blue tones. They had a drawing of the horse without a mane so it was on them to add the mane. Of course several decided the horse had to have a tongue too! Fun project to do.

Blue horse collage for Chinese New Year

I was excited to see a few months ago that Eric Carle had a book about a blue horse and it was recommended as a resource for Chinese New Year. Luckily one of the parents has a copy of the book and was able to bring it for the class. Before class I did a drawing of the horse based on his book and ran off copies for the participants. I had them cut out the horse and then use several different colors of blue tissue paper to make a collage on the horse. The example had a different colored saddle blanket and we were able to find some striped tissue paper to use for the blanket. Some of them were able to make a 3-D mane and tail and others chose to keep their's flat. Lastly we mounted it on red construction paper as most of the examples I've seen use red for celebrations.