Kinder students are studying the Pop artist Jasper Johns. We looked at several of his paintings that included letters and numbers and talked about how you can find letters and numbers everywhere out in the world: signs, buildings, telephones, microwaves, etc. Students then folded their papers to get a grid, and started drawing numbers or letters.
Then the most fun part was painting! Each student added four different colors to each letter or number, which made the works a little more abstract like Johns' style. We talked about the science of how the water-based paint resists the oil pastel lines and sticks to the paper instead of the letters or numbers. Check out all of the wonderful finished paintings here at Zilker's Online Museum: http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=766073