Eric carle inspired art

As part of a Kindergarten art lesson on value and texture, we did a few Eric Carle-inspired texture collage craft activities.

I love happy art lessons. The ones that engage children right from the get-go. These painted paper butterflies are a perennial favorite in my art room. My first graders make painted paper and then use the paper to create butterfly wings. I set out wing templates but encourage the children to make their own wing

Make this delightful painted collage art using a really fun painted paper process. You will love making this as much as your kids do!

Create Eric Carle inspired paper collages using basic art supplies. A fun activity for any age to celebrate the incredible artist and author.

I’m so in love with this Eric Carle inspired Mixed up Chameleon art. Have you read The Mixed Up Chameleon? It’s the latest highlighted book for the Preschool Book Club Series I’m a part of. It’s such a nice story about a chameleon who doesn’t see his own strengths and tries to be like everyone […]

Eric Carle's children's books and illustrations are a delight to read to children and also a wonderful inspiration so many art projects- who doesn't love painted paper collages? The Prep students (first year at Primary school) were working on a theme of "Growth and Change" and the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" fits in beautifully.

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The great Eric Carle has died. I’m not sure how many people know this, but he was actually a collage artist: My pictures are collages. I didn’t invent the collage. Artists like Picasso and Matisse and Leo Lionni and Ezra Jack Keats made collages. Many children have

Create your own textured papers inspired by Eric Carle's work.

I did this project with a group of Kindergartners in our co-op as a part of an Eric Carle author study. We spent some time looking through his books, talking about his collage technique using painted sheets of tissue paper, and seeing how he does it in his studio (in The Art of Eric Carle - great book from our library). Then we tried our own version of the flower that grew from The Tiny Seed. First, we needed to paint several sheets of paper. I used acrylic paint on copy paper to have a…