In the 1860s, Monet joined a group of young artists who began to challenge the rules for how good paintings were made. Plein- air is French for “open air” and refers to paintings created outdoors. With a local reputation as a caricaturist, he attracted the interest of landscape painter Eugene Boudin, who introduced Monet to plein-air painting. His father was a wholesale grocer, and after his mother died when he was 17, an aunt encouraged Monet in his efforts to become an artist. The most widely known French Impressionist, Claude Monet was born in Paris and grew up on the Normandy coast.
Continue until everyone has jumped across the lily pads. Stop the music occasionally and let the students have fun freezing on different lily pads. Call on students who aren’t on a lily pad when the music stops, and ask them to name a color from Monet’s painting. Tell them that when the music stops, they should stop and freeze. Play some lively music and invite students to jump across the lily pads. Have the students help you lay out the lily pads in the same arrangement as the lily pads in Monet’s painting. Lay the green lily pad shapes that you have cut out on the floor.Explain to the students that they will be playing a garden game with lily pads.Which one of Monet’s lily pads would they like to take a nap on? Which lily pad would they like to have a party on? Read a book? Where else in the painting would they like to do these activities?
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