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.
Carnival masks
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.
