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Written by: Lacramioara Matei [Lacramioara is a teacher at the Cambridge International school of Bucharest in Romania.] 
Grade: 4-8 Activity Summary:Students will create works of art inspired by artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo - a man who used images of fruits and vegetables to create art.Objectives:Students will learn that complex forms can be created using simple items.Teachers can tie this lesson into one that introduces students to artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. What You Need:
What You Do:
About Giuseppe ArcimboldoWritten by Andrea Mulder-Slater, KinderArt®
Type of Work: Painting, Sculpture, Poetry
Recommended Books:
Hello, Fruit Face!: The Paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo by Claudia Strand Giuseppe Arcimboldo, a sixteenth-century Italian artist, is remembered for his arrangements of such items as flowers, fruits, vegetables, animals, or books into strange but recognizable portraits of people. This short, large-format book features large-scale reproductions of a dozen works by the artist, accompanied by information about his life, his style of painting, and descriptions and discussions of the paintings themselves. (Booklist) 
Sticker Art Shapes: Arcimboldo: With More Than 70 Reusable Stickers by Louise Cognard Part of the Sticker Art Shapes series, this book offers children a chance to get to know six of Arcimboldo's paintings on a truly interactive level. Young readers see a finished painting on one page, and on the opposite page, they recreate it with reusable stickers. Arcimboldo’s lively portraits, made of painted fruits, vegetables, and flowers, provide children with a unique understanding of composition, color, and style.
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