Here I have a similar painting to Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night. We used a teaching grade level of Kindergarten so the piece is actually finger-painted. I chose to make a picture of the Bismarck Capital for my art piece because I grew up in Bismarck and its truly one of my favorite places to be, the place I call home.  The other piece is used for 3rd graders, we used tissue paper to create background and made a city silhouette and to bring out some color we used Sharpe markers and oil pastels for some extra pzazz.

An extension from this activity could be to have the students make their own version of "Starry Night" with the use of pastels, markers, crayons or even pictures they have taken or ones picked from a magazine or book. I think you should also bring in some books about Van Gogh for the students to look at for inspiration.

Tissue Paper Project

"The Lights of the Capital"