Vocabulary Words: Abstract, landscape, foreground, background

Materials: 12x18" white paper, watercolors or tempera, 9x12 paper, oil pastels, scissors, 3-Do's

I shared the book "What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses" by Richard VanCamp with my second grade students. We discussed the abstract colors and fantasy approach to creating the illustrations. We then drew simplified horses and colored them with oil pastels, using any color the student wished. We then painted beautiful backgrounds for our horses. We cut out our horses and attached them to our backgrounds using 3-Do's to further emphasize the horses being in the foreground.