After reading a book Masks in the forest children made animal masks. They were working their finger muscles by gluing little pieces of paper on not such small surface. Quite some patience and focus were demanded and they did it really well.
Studying Marc Chagall
Every year there is at least once time for Marc Chagall and his magic. Here the masterpieces of 2018.
A week later these children went for an exhibition with their class and by some space/planet/univers-al coincidence they were shown works of you know who and they all started shouting: “Marc Chagall! We know him! It’s Marc Chagall!!” The curator was very impressed. As for me, eh, piece of cake, show them Der Blaue Reiter and some art brut Dubuffet. Try them if you dare.
Abstract painting
The children here only got primary colours and black and white. They were mixing and mixing and mixing and I bet they would still be mixing if I didn’t take paints away.
Giant ice creams
Ice creams are a thing. You can never go wrong there. And if you make them giant as these you are in for a win and gold and all ot that.
This is a lovely spring/summer art project. Easy and tasty. Inspired by lovely artbar.
Ice cream sundaes
We’ve made some beautiful ice cream sundaes with my 3-6 year olds after reading a book from Mo Willems, Should I share my ice cream. We’ve made them before with my now older children. You can search for the post below if you are interested in the process. They are an on going inspiration by artbar.
Easter wreaths
This is a lovely project all made from egg cartons. It needs a bit of preparation but children enjoy it a lot because it involves all the good things: painting, assembling, gluing. Two hours of joy!
Giant cardboard self-portraits
I did this project last month with my 5 and 6 year olds but as these works are turning out so amazing I am posting here the works of my 7 and 8 year olds. Somehow I was never a Depeche mode fan but I guess there comes a time for I just can’t get enough playing in your head!
Big self-portraits
I am most proud of my 5 and 6 year old artists!
We had a tiny chat about self portraits in the history, we had a good laugh about a few of them and we were shocked about some others. Some pretty, some surprising. Quite very interesting! And this here is how my children see themselves. Most adorable pieces of art ever! And they aren’t small!!
Building a city
We had an amazing fun building a city in a collaborative art project. Whole thing turned into a great game. We had a factory and a store of different shapes and colours. We had a production, a selling department, costumers and an assembling department. Very merry!
Marionettes
This is again an inspiration from many time mentioned artbar. To make these lovely marionettes there are many steps to achive but none is very complicated. If you will be making them with more children at once, bare in mind there are many knots to do. My children couldn’t do them especially not the double ones on the ends of the strings, to prevent the beads falling off, so I probably did one million.
The marionettes are real fun to play with, they have such sweet movement and children really enjoyed making a story while playing with their horses. They were very precious to them and were happy to take them home.
