Objectives:
Students Will Be Able To:
1. paint their own interpretations of Starry Night
2. fingerpaint a sky full of motion
3. paint a background of mountains with tempera
4. paint swirling stars with white and yellow dashes
5. paint a cypress tree by mixing blue and yellow tempera paint
6. draw and paint a village.

Materials:
Blue fingerpaint; Large fingerpaint paper; Limited tempera palette (blue, white, yellow, red); Large and small tempera brushes; Water; Cups; Table coverings; Black Sharpie markers.

Day 1.
Students fingerpaint entire sheet of paper blue. (This doesn't take a whole period. Have something additional for them to work on.) If you have a copy of the old song, "Vincent" by Don McClean, they would enjoy hearing it. The words can be placed on the board. Concentrate on circular motions.

Day 2.
Give students a limited palette of blue, white, yellow. Have them paint in the dashes of the swirling stars, the cypress, and the mountains.

Day 3.
Draw the village in the foreground using Sharpies. It can look any way the students want. If time permits, they can begin to paint the village using blues, white, yellow, and a drop of red.

Day 4.
Use a black Sharpie to add dashes and dots of swirling motions over the whole painting.