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an art project for kids with paper cut out of animals and flowers on the background

Introduce elementary art students to Rousseau's jungle art with this set of four art lessons ending in a unique Henri Rousseau art project.

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two children are painting pictures on paper

First and second grade have been making the cutest neon giraffe’s. Here are a few finished ones. Some of them used sparkly felt and some neon paper for the headphones. The ipod is paper and we used yarn for the cord. The students learned about color mixing and blending. We studied the color wheel to see which colors we could blend next to each other. They did a fabulous job! For some reason neon colors don’t translate in photos. They are much much brighter in person! I had my first class…

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an art camp poster with the words henry rousseau creative arts and well being

Our Artist Inspiration is Henri Rousseau Henri Rousseau was a self taught French painter who is famous for his illustrative style rainforest and jungle paintings. I really love these paintings - they capture the dense, lush vegetation of the rainforests and jungles, and show the wonderful wildlife hiding amongst the trees staring out at the viewer - they almost invite…

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a drawing of a toucan with flowers and leaves

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children's artwork displayed on wooden table with watercolors

photo credit We are always on the lookout to create art that does not HAVE to be incredibly colorful. In fact, there are times where I invite the students to practice RESTRAINT - using only 2-4 colors. This lesson would be great for a rain forest discussion or a study on Henri Rousseau. I have a video of our version of a snake art lesson:

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