This art project was a tribute to Eric Carle and his creations of children literature through stories illustrated with painted, tissue paper collages. For my story I used tissue paper to create the sunset on the first page and painted paper for the night sky on the next page. The ground, moon, and ants were cut from other classmates painted papers. The inspiration for the story depicted came from the idea that Eric Carle's stories seem to have more than one purpose to them. For example, "Brown Bear" has colors and animals. In a classroom, the book could be used for either of those concepts. The story I created talks about the changes in nature. Leaves turning brown, sun and moon rising and setting each day, and children growing up.
The baby ant is concerned that the sun will go away forever but the mother ant assures the baby that the sun will come back just as the moon has on the next page.
An extension activity for this project would be for the students to pair up and come up with their own storyline that can introduce at least 2 concepts to younger children. The partners will have to illustrate the book and then present it to a group of kindergarteners.
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