Art Form: Visual Arts

Supplies Needed

The Big Umbrella book

Crayons or oil pastels

Watercolor paints

1 piece of thick paper

Water container

Paint brush

Vocabulary

Color - Light reflected by an object

Line - A continuous mark made on a surface by a
moving point

Resist - Resist paintings rely on something, such
as tape or crayon, to prevent color from showing up
on a painting in the spot where it is placed

Endpapers – Beginning and end pages inside the
cover of a book

Setting - Where the story takes place

Sequence - The order in which the events of the
story takes place

Instructions

1. Look closely at the illustrations on the end pages, inside the front and back cover of the book.

• What do you see? Describe the colors, lines and shapes.
• Compare and contrast the illustrations.

2. Then, read aloud, The Big Umbrella. After reading, discuss the following:

• What do you notice about how the umbrella protects everyone?
• What does the umbrella remind you of?

3. Discuss how the umbrella is big enough to include everyone. Discuss how the umbrella showed kindness and how it is similar to how we can be kind and include others in our activities and friendships.

4. Using crayons or oil pastels, draw a large umbrella on your paper, big enough to fill most of the space on the paper. Draw different kinds of people, animals, and creatures under the umbrella, just like in the story.

5. Draw the rain, clouds, and the sun in the sky above the umbrella. Be sure to use a variety of lines and colors.

6. When you are finished, paint over the entire piece of paper with watercolors. Notice how the crayon or oil pastel resists the paint.

Extensions

Take a look at the page in the book without text. Describe what you see.

Create a dialogue between the sun and the Big Umbrella.