Kindergarten Flying Mitten Project

Kindergarten students created these colorful mitten paintings after reading Jan Brett’s book The Mitten.  Building on their knowledge of lines each student designed their own matching pair of mittens by including vertical, horizontal, diagonal, wavy, zigzag, and broken lines.  The biggest challenge of this project was making sure to keep both the right and left-handed mitten matching.  The students worked hard to paint with quality and ensure their colors were bright so their mitten would be seen if it was dropped in the snow unlike the character Nikki from the story.  The students used the Medium of pencil, sharpie, and tempera paint on the mittens and then practiced their cutting and gluing skills to adhere the mittens to blue sky background along with some whimsical movement lines to make their mitten appear as if it were flying in the air.