Kindergarten Klee Cats!

My Kinder's discussed Paul Klee's "Cat and Bird" painting. We looked at the shapes and colors and discussed how we could draw a cat. Most of them said that they couldn't... but when we broke down the shapes and did it step by step, cats appeared on their papers! Amazing! Then they colored them with markers and colored pencils. We discussed how we draw BIG to fill the paper, how we don't scribble to cover space that's empty, and - most importantly - how we THROW AWAY DRIED OUT MARKERS instead of putting them back into the marker bins! Mrs. Lemke only likes juicy markers!  ;-) 

Here's Paul Klee's "Cat and Bird" that was their inspiration:

Here are their artworks:

  

Here are the Kinders working on them!