Symmetrical Paint Butterflies

Kindergarteners began the school year learning about the primary colors: red, yellow, and blue. We poured them into the center of our paper, folded it in half, and watch the colors mix into a symmetrical design. It reminded us of butterflies. So we will turn them into butterflies with construction paper and googly eyes next week. Meanwhile we imagined that each artist was the body of their own butterfly for these images.
​See the gallery on Artsonia here.

Here is a little "how to" for making these in Keynote (on a Mac):

1. Layer in the butterfly painting. One per slide
2. Use instant alpha to select and remove the white of the paper
3. Uncheck the constrain proportions to stretch and resize the image to fill slide
4. Layer in the green screen photo of student
5. Use instant alpha to remove the green (crop if needed to remove the rest)
6. Resize and place photo as body
7. Use the shape and draw tools to make antenna (group them, send them to back)
8. Copy and paste the antenna for each slide and continue
9. Export the whole keynote as jpg images. It will put them all in a folder for you.

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Tricia Fuglestad's Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

Paint Butterflies

Students completed their physical piece of art by learning how to make a butterfly body by measuring a good SIZE and designing a good SHAPE for their symmetrical paint wings. These can be viewed in their gallery here.