Lei making

Today in art class, we worked with water colors and made our own lei.  Ms. Kalei incorporated her Hawaiian culture into our classroom today; we learned new vocabulary words and a lot of information about Lei Day in Hawaii.  We started off by learning four different water color techniques and used them to paint whatever we wanted onto our watercolor paper.  When this was drying, we started to make our leis with yarn, construction paper flowers, and straws.  Once our watercolor design dried, I cut flowers out of that also.  The lei is then started with a paper flower, then a small chunk of straw, then I decided to put a watercolor flower.  I continued this process until it filled the entire piece of yarn.  I ended up having 24 flowers on my lei!  

An extension activity would have them write about who they would give the lei to and why. We learned that they are supposed to give the lei to someone they love. So this would be a good writing assignment.