Van Gogh Sunflower Painting

Here is my Van Gogh sunflower painting. To begin this project, we need a sheet of construction paper. Then we used our pencil and created a vase. For my vase, I tried to create a big round one, because it reminded me of the vases that my mother used for her flowers. Next, we drew three circles where ever on the page. Once done with our circles, we attached stems from the vase to them. After that, I drew petals coming off of each one of my circles. Next I colored my vase purple, and colored the stems of the flowers green. When completed with the coloring, I filled in the center of each of my flowers with a checkers board design. When completed with that, we painted our flower petals yellow. Once the paint was dry, we used sunflower seeds and glued them around the edge of the flower. 

An extension activity you could do for this is have the students go on a field trip to a green house. This would be fun for the students and they would be learning new information outside of the classroom.