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Posted: Oct 11 2007 at 11:38am | IP Logged Quote pixilated_momma
I'm relatively new to 4Real (though I've lurked at everyone's blogs for a while, LOL), so I hope I am doing this right. (I couldn't get the links in any other way, sorry.)

We finished our Vincent Van Gogh unit study recently, so I thought I'd post our notes and what-not:


VINCENT VAN GOGH

Biography & Online Art
Here's a brief child-friendly biography. You can click on the images of his painting for a more detailed look.
Online gallery of Van Gogh's Sunflowers
The amazing, definite online gallery of Van Gogh's work
National Gallery of Art's virtual tour of its past Van Gogh exhibit
Van Gogh Museum

Activities
Study a comparison of two Van Gogh's self-portraits.
Take an Inside Art Adventure of a Van Gogh painting.
The National Galley of Art has provides plans for teaching activities for Language Arts, Geography and drawing exercises.
Examine the characteristics of a Van Gogh piece.
Make a Van Gogh-style portrait.
Sunflower activities for little kids
Van Gogh coloring pages -- just print and color!
Have your child do a narration page of a biography then draw an accompanying picture.
Make your own mini-gallery. For this, I copied Van Gogh images from different Websites and copied them into a Word document. Then, I did an accordion-style fold of paper. The kids then cut out the pictures and arranged them in the folder like a little museum of their own. The names of the children were the name of the museum. A child can decorate the folder with pictures of people observing the art or whatever flourishes and swirls they want to add.
Discuss a self-portrait of Van Gogh. You can find detailed questions and additional activities here.

Additional Resources
Guidelines for your own Van Gogh unit study
Notes and pictures of a mini unit study of Van Gogh
child-friendly biography

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Posted: Oct 11 2007 at 12:17pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM
Hey, pixilated momma, I connected the links. You might want to check them to make sure they are all correct. Thanks for the very thorough Van Gogh study!

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Posted: Oct 11 2007 at 5:15pm | IP Logged Quote pixilated_momma
Wow, that must've been a lot of work, Mary! Thank you. I tried to do the whole URL thingy but I don't know what I was doing wrong.

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Posted: Oct 21 2007 at 11:07pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM
Oh and I ran across this which would be fun to add to a unit - Van Gogh cake from Family Fun



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