For the poppies, use the short side of a card.

Grass can be added along the bottom between the stems. Drag the card along the paper a bit to make it wider.

Dip the long plastic cards in green paint and make stems.

Using old plastic gift cards, cut some of the cards lengthwise and some widthwise to make different lengths of cards.

In fact, your students can basically use any colour they like except black because it dominates the background too much. Generally, the background should be a sky, but greens, blues and purples all look good. Get the paper liberally wet and then add colour.

Students will create a watercolour wash on their paper.

It can be tricky to fit all the words in, so we recommend students lightly write with a pencil and then trace over it with a marker. One of our students wrote thank you repeatedly while others wrote a few sentences.

Students will write a brief thank you letter around the edges.

Once the solider is outlined, students can fill it in with Black Sharpie or marker. They can draw one directly onto their dry artwork. Students can paint right to the edge or leave a rough border around the edge of the paper. Add the colours allowing them to blend together. We can send it directly to your inbox when you sign up for our email list. This complete lesson is available in our Resource Library. If you are avoiding painting projects because you feel they are too messy, you need to read our post: Are You Avoiding Teaching Art? Soldier Silhouettes Students choose their two best pieces for the display in the hall and we keep the rest in our classroom until all the work is sent home. We use different sizes of paper for the projects and it makes every piece of art a unique part of a collection. We actually teach students the basics of all the projects and they choose two to three to make.

These are projects can be created in class with basic art materials found in most schools.

There are always a lot of poppies, but we wanted to create some pieces for upper elementary students that took a little more time and care to create and werenвЂ™t just poppies. Our Remembrance Day assembly often invites community members, so we like to have beautiful art to enjoy. Each year we spend a good chunk of time creating Remembrance Day art projects to decorate the halls of our school.

Remembrance poppy drawing