Kindergarten: Jelly Fish

 Kindergarten - Jellyfish 

For the second project of the year, all of the classes will be making a glow in the dark sea creature! We will be using glow in the dark paint to make our sea creatures come to life. At the end of the year art gallery, we will display all of the glow in the dark sea creatures in our very own Glow Gallery!

(Photo courtesy of Cassie Stephens' blog) 

Each grade will do a different sea creature. Kindergarteners will be making jelly fish! 

Supplies:

• Small white mixed media paper
• Pencil
• Large black paper for background (same paper as messy mats)
• Strips of construction paper
• Glue
• Florescent tempura cakes
• Paintbrush
• Neon oil pastels 
• Water bowls with sponge
• Black lights
• Spray bottles with neon paint

    Please use the document camera in the classroom to show the step by step instructions. One art volunteer can sit at the desk at the front of the room to demonstrate the steps and guide the students through the project. Here are the instructions for the jellyfish & example pictures. These will also be printed out in the classroom for you to follow. 

    

       Try to save a few minutes for at the end of class to turn the lights off in the classroom and turn on the black lights that are in the art closet (or they may already be plugged in around the room). The kids will love getting to see their art projects glow! The squeals of delight will be worth it! ;) 

1. On a small white piece of paper, draw a semi-circle from one side of the paper to the other. 

                                                   

2. Now let's paint the jellyfish! We are using tempura cakes. They work similarly to water color paints. You get your paintbrush wet first and then swirl it around on the tempura cakes. Then paint your paper. The paint is buildable, so if at first the color is not bright enought, get more paint on your paintbrush and add more to the paper. (This picture shows the jellyfish already cut out but we determined it is easier to paint if it is not cut out yet :)). 

3. Now let's set the jellyfish body aside. We will cut it out after it dries. 

4.. Taking a new piece of black paper, write your name and your teachers name on it and turn it over and lay it vertical. 

5. Choose 5-7 strips of neon paper that you will use as the jellyfish tentacles. It will look better if you use an odd number. So 3, 5, 7 would be a good amount of tentacles. (We will glue the tentacles on first, and then glue the body overtop). 

6.  Using your glue, make a thin line of glue from the middle of the paper down to the bottom, then attach one tentacle. 

11. Do the same for all tentacles. 

12. Using good scissor safety, cut the jelly fish body out. Now add glue all over the backside of the jellyfish body, making sure to get some glue at the edges. 

13. Glue the body slightly over the tentacle edges so it looks like the tentacles are coming out of the body. 

14. Next add squiggly lines on top of the strips of neon paper with the oil pastels. This will really make the tentacles glow! 

15. Now it's time to add neon spray at the spray station! 

15. Carry your paper over to the spray station and choose which color of spray you would like your jellyfish to have. The neon yellow is the brightest color, but all of the colors are fun! 

16. Volunteers please carefully shake the spray bottles of paint first as the paint tends to settle at the bottom. Then spritz the paper with watered down paint to create a splatter/bubble effect. 

17. Your jellyfish is complete! :)