Catching The Sun

What You'll Need:

Sunlight

Shadow Makers

A day at the park, or in your backyard can have endless possibilities between the relationship with your kids and the sun.

Learning about the direction the sun rises, sets and how it's actually a star is fascinating to little minds.

But, best of all, it's a natural entertainer as kids move.

Great Ideas:

• Grab some chalk and trace outlines of your shadow makers and let them decorate themselves.
• Discuss the difference of positive and negative space.
• Draw LINE around the shadows and create PATTERNS inside each shadow with SYMBOLS to represent themselves.

Standards:
25.A.1d  Visual Arts: Identify the elements of line, shape, space, color and texture; the principles of repetition and pattern; and the expressive qualities of mood, emotion and pictorial representation.