Home Seed Art
In this lesson, young artists consider the responsibility of taking care of a plant as it grows, and use dyeing and gluing skills to create a plant-inspired seed mosaic.
Story: Frog and Toad Together: The Garden by Arnold Lobel
Project: Create a plant-inspired seed mosaic
Featured Artwork: Mosaic Solomon Palms by Ned Smyth (American, born 1948), 1982, stone tesserae, concrete. Museum purchase,1987.134.1, 1987.134.2, 1987.134.3
Supplies
- Tempera paint or food coloring
- Strainer
- Scrap cardboard
- Elmer’s glue
- Seeds (or beans, rice or small stones)
- Waterproof container to separate seeds (egg carton or other)
- Pencil