On Monday, the two moms and I had our 5th Art Vistas lesson with Connor’s class. The art concept for this lesson was “lines”; we reviewed the vocabularies, vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines, briefly.  Next we led a discussion using a couple of famous paintings of “boats”. The children were excited looking at the beautiful artwork, pointing out things they saw and answering questions about the art concept. Then it was time for the hands on part and we had a busy agenda. For this lesson, we made a fish print. The children brushed on different colors of tempera paints all over a rubber fish, then we placed a muslin cloth over it. The kids rubbed gently all over the cloth to make a beautiful imprint of the fish. With this project, we really got our hands quite colorful with paints. Other than making the fish prints, we also had the children use tempera to paint on the clay animals that they made back in Lesson 3. They had fun using paintbrushes and painted on some nice details. While we worked on rotating the kids through the two projects, they also had done some free drawing with crayons. We kept all of us quite busy and engaged the entire hour. It was a fun lesson.