Matisse Flower Vases
Click link above to be taken to blog regarding the project. (there is also a description of the project below in simpler instructions)
Please use the link below to show a short video on Matisse
https://youtu.be/kRkdY8VQx1c
Have the students pick out two different color papers (9x12), and fill each page with a different type of pattern using markers. They have to fill up the whole page. Next, I show them how to create the vase- I stress that all vases will turn out different and that is good! We fold one of the patterned papers in half like a "hot dog", then draw the letter 's' starting at the top and working down to the bottom of the "hot dog" page. I remind students that the folded paper should be like a book (fold on the left side, opening on the right). Once they draw their 's' then they cut it out to get their vase. Next, they glue their "tablecloth" (the other patterned page) onto a 12x18 white paper- turned portrait style, not landscape. Then their vase is glued on top of that close to the bottom of the page. Next we add several dots of glue above the vase, stick on layers of pre-cut tissue paper squares, let them dry for a few minute, crinkle them up with our fingers, and finally- draw green stems from the flower to the vase with a green marker. Voila! Beautiful flower vases!
