Kindergarten Dale Chihuly Macchia

We have such a great local museum for our students to view a real-life Dale Chihuly artwork and the Kindergarten students visited the museum during a recent field trip.  The Kindergarten teachers have been so wonderful in allowing a little collaboration between what they're studying in the classroom and what we do in the art room.

Each student was given a coffee filter and a piece of scrap newspaper (to protect the table).  They then chose 3 colors of water-based markers and created some kind of pattern design on the coffee filter.  Once colored, the students sprayed the coffee filter with water to let the colors start to blend together.  We dabbed away excess water and then set the wet coffee filter on a cup to dry to create the macchia shape.  Once dry, I glued the macchia shapes on poster board to create a collaborative kindergarten art project!

Thanks to We Heart Art for this AMAZING project idea!  They suggest using spray starch to help keep the macchia shape, but I found that plain water worked just as well!