Try a hands-on Sunflowers art project for kids, inspired by Vincent van Gogh. This simple art activity uses a free sunflower template and basic materials to create a colorful sunflower collage, making it ideal for elementary classrooms, homeschool lessons, or art time at home—without needing complex supplies or costly materials.
Sunflowers Art Project Inspired by Van Gogh
In this sunflower art activity, kids begin with a printable sunflower template, then paint and decorate the pieces before cutting and assembling them into a finished piece with a vase and pipe cleaner stems. The process encourages exploration of color, shape, and composition while giving children freedom to use different art materials and express their own ideas.
This project is open-ended, flexible for different ages, and easy to facilitate with groups or individual learners, keeping the focus on creative exploration rather than technical perfection.
Sunflower Art Project
All you need is the free sunflower printable to get started! Feel free to get creative and use a variety of art media for your masterpiece!
Supplies:
- Sunflower printable
- Colored paper
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Watercolors
- Paintbrush
- Paper bag
- Pipe cleaners
How to Make Van Gogh Sunflowers
STEP 1: Print the sunflowers and vase templates. You can use colored paper to print your vase
or paint it with watercolors.
For a textured paper vase, trace the outline onto a paper bag. You can even give it a little crumple.
STEP 2: Paint the sunflower template with watercolor paints. What other art mediums can you use or have available?
STEP 3: Cut out your flowers.
STEP 4: Cut your paper bag to fit the shape of the vase and glue it to your background page.
Note: What else can you make for a background, or what other paper can you use?
STEP 5: Glue your flowers in place and then add your pipe cleaner stems to finish your project.
Free Van Gogh Sunflowers Template
Your art project starts with a Van Gogh Sunflowers printable!
Vincent van Gogh for Kids
Vincent van Gogh is known for expressive brushstrokes, bold colors, and swirling movement. The Starry Night, painted in 1889, is one of his most recognizable works and shows how artists use motion and color to create mood and energy.
While the original painting is not mixed media, its movement and texture make it a great inspiration for hands-on art projects with kids.
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