Birds & Birches inspired by Lois Ehlert

"Do you think birds know when it's going to snow?" 

asks Lois Ehlert in her book "Snowballs."

We looked at Ehlert's creative collages and then made painted paper using the watercolor resist technique.  We used music pages for our birch trees and collaged colorful birds in the trees. These gorgeous collages and Ehlert's amusing illustrations remind us that winter is anything but cold and gray!

Birches and Birds

First and second grade artists looked at the beautiful illustrations in Lois Ehlert's book, "Snowballs."

We used liquid watercolor paint with oil pastel resist to make colorful papers, which we used to cut out our birds. We used sheet music for our birch trees and added shading and detail with black oil pastels. 

Thank you to Deep Space Sparkle for the inspiration for this project!