Running With Scissors: Michelangelo Painting

Running With Scissors Activity: Michelangelo Painting

Materials:

• Information on Michelangelo - use the Internet for info or check out one of these great kid-friendly books Michelangelo (Famous Children’s Series) by Tony Hart - starting at $4.36 Amazon.com or Michelangelo (Gettting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia - starting at $3.78 at Amazon.com - or take a field trip to the local library for FREE!
• Tape
• Large sheets of drawing paper
• Low table
• Paint
• Paintbrushes
• Drop Cloth (large trashbags torn open work great)
• smock or old T-shirt

Read with your child about Michelangelo and his life as an artist. Focus on his painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Look at pictures of his artwork together.
Tape paper to the underside of the table and put the drop cloth down. Let your child lie on her back and paint on the underside of the table until her heart’s content. Hopefully this novel approach will inspire your little one to want to paint more than one painting.

Discuss what it must have been like for Michelangelo to paint this way (on his back on scaffolding) for years and years!