Van Gogh's Sunflower

For this lesson, we learned about Van Gogh and his sunflower painting. He actually created four sunflower paintings to decorate the walls of his friends bedroom. Each painting had a different background. We were told to create a vase however we wanted for our sunflowers. We created the vase with crayons and colored them in. Then we drew our sunflowers and painted the petals yellow after painting the petals yellow, we had to draw the stems on the sunflower and have them go into the vase. Finally, we had to use brown to create a checkerboard pattern in the center of the sunflower and glue sunflower seeds around the center of the sunflower.

An extension activity students could do is more with art. Students could create a background for their sunflowers. They could create things such as a table, a window, a desk, and then cut out the sunflower painting and put it on their background.