 
Piet
Mondrian is
most famous for his paintings in
the De Stijl movement or
neoplasticism which he helped
create. The painters in this
movement believed the essence or
foundation of all things
could be found in the simplest
form: straight lines and primary
colors. So Mondrian began painting
pieces like this one called
Composition.
After examining and discussing
several of Piet Mondrian's
paintings in the DeStijl movement
style, the children each drew
lines with their rulers on a large
sheet of construction paper.
Then they discussed the colors he
used in his paintings. The
children decided to only use red,
blue, yellow, black and
white. They then colored
with their crayons sections of
their drawings with these
colors. Next using
expo black markers, they went over
the lines on their
drawings. They then
used an umbrella template to trace
the umbrella shape onto their
drawings and cut out the umbrella
shape Finally they colored a
handle and several flowers
to add to their umbrellas.
They decided not to glue the
flowers on their designs, but to
try and keep the flowers on the
handle. Most of the children
decided to stay with red,
yellow, blue, black and white
colors for the handle and flowers.
The umbrellas were then
laminated. They plan to add some
raindrops and more flowers to the
displays when we return from
Spring Break.
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