It’s time for carnival! And we love animals! And we love to look crazy! So do not bother guessing…
Animal puppets
My fine motor skills class worked on animal cardboard puppets. They were building their finger muscles whille fighting through thick cardboard and their brain muscle when building this thing together. Look at these beauties please!
Harvest paintings
We made a beautiful project on harvest. I came across an art project on Marina Strocchi by Art Camp that I loved and Maria’s simple childlike beautiful forms do trigger a desire to offer kids to discover her work. She is painting landscapes of her homeland, Australia. She has this natural raw touch of warm colours and backgrounds. We used inks and raw paper. An easy and beautiful project for all ages.
Mixing primary colours
We were learning how to mix colours. Children enjoyed this very much. I only gave them blue, red, yellow, white and black and they made such pretty shades of all possible colours. They were first painting on cardboard and then on canvas. We tryed to frame the paintings with embroidery hoops but I think they looked prettier on it’s own. But hopefully they will all get some nice framing because they really deserve it.
The world of Hundertwasser
We spoke about arhitecture and the lovely Hundertwasser. And we said things like: “Ooooooh, if only more houses were of him. Slides everywhere! Trees on the roofs! And those windows! I want round windows from ever! I want gas stations with trees and the flowers! I want a round room on the top of the tower. I’d like to slide on my bum from kitchen into living room! Ooooo!” After the loud excitment we just went into silence for a while. Imagining…
And then we went to work.
The children made these beautiful buildings out of recycling materials. I think Hundertwasser would be proud!
When asking children on our second workshop if someone remembers who we talked about they shouted: “TAUSENDWAAAAAASSER!!!” 
Greek mythologicical monsters
Our famous artists workshop was this time really ancient. We peeked into the world of Greek mythology. We used a fabulous book about mythological monsters. We were swimming in various materials. We had much fun and we also learned. With our exhibition we are now teaching others.
Magical globe fairies
So we are back after long and good holidays, yiiipeee!! And for the starter my children did these beauties. I am so very proud of them!
The inspiration came from my dear friend Tina who is an expert on fairies. Many fairies she made lives all over our apartment, hidden somewhere between jam glasses or just hanging from ropes in wardrobes.
Well I decided we are just old enough to make some. I have mainly 7 years old girls in this two classes but here are also works of my 5 and 6 years old school children.
Oskar Schlemmer & his form
We had a very interesting time talking about Oskar Schlemmer and the basic forms. Children were busy drawing the forms, some also used rulers, then there was lots of cutting. And after – the pleasure of painting!
Mixed animal collages
My children assembled these pretty mixed animal collages that are now shining in our school’s hallway. Each creature is made out of two or three animals. Pretty cool they are!
Louise Bourgeois with kids
This time we worked on madame Bourgeois. We browsed through a really nice book, Lied für Louise , and we talked about her life quite a bit. You can’t avoid it when discussing such a prominent lady.
The children did the spiders (one made an octopus) out of wire that they’ve taped over to reach some more volume and then they wrapped the base in plaster bandages (fun!!). They painted them black with Ecolite during our second class but I forgot to take photos 
The spiders were a bit scary looking but we all knew the story behind so they were just pretty to us.
