Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”

 In this activity, students learn about Vincent Van Gogh. They then take what they have learned to inspire them to create their own version of Starry Night. To start, students cut up pieces of tissue paper and use midge lodge to glue the pieces to the black background. After this is completed, students take crayons to make marks around their tissue paper to support the swirls. Next, students cut out a foreground of their choosing. They can support the shapes the cut with crayons too. Finally, they glue these shapes on and write their names on the project.

To build on this lesson, students could be instructed to write short poems about their Starry Night. They could tell a story through their poem about how they think the characters or animals that would be in their scene feel.