Another project for our school’s unit. Self-portraits with beautiful backgrounds. Children were instructed to use all sorts of lines.
I found this project so positive and beautiful. It was suggested by the class teachers which also did the photography, the little interviews and writing with the children. I only did the art bit, quite easy really. I’d enjoy professional assistants. Like in real life, ha!
Painting
Stone bugs
A sweet little stone project for little artist. They were making bugs and their large families. Unfortunatelly I had no time for a camera and took these few photos with my phone. Better than nothing.
Mother’s day celebrated with Midis
The Midi’s were fully busy with their Mother’s day preparations too. They’ve made self portraits. We used a special paper (kiss print) and some chocolate boxes for frames. A really sweet little gifts these were!
Gigantic carnival hair styles
This project was fun but a lot of work. It might not look like it but every single child would tell you it was! The cutting was the hardest.
I wish we had time to make some sort of head ring behind so the wigs would stand by itself but it was more than enough for a two hour class. Next time!
Inside and outside of the houses
I have a book that I find pretty amazing. It’s called Woran denkst du?. I wished to do a project on the subject but since it’s quite abstract I decided to start with a similar project only instead of drawing our mind we drew houses. Houses are easy. We all have one, live in one, have someone living in one that we visit and so on. So we did it. We drew sinks, bedrooms, tables, stairs, spooky basements and all the rest that goes with it. As an extra inspiration we used a very nice book called Zuhause by Carson Ellis.
Studying Mark Rothko
We spoke about Mark Rothko a little bit but more than that the children were into mixing colours and trying how they match together and what sort of impression do the combinations provoke. Is it OOO, is it AAA, is it UAAA or YOOHOOO or maybe a MMMMMM… and what do all those interjections mean. It was a lovely art project.
Summer Camp “What can you do with an old suitcase”
Our first summer camp at Raumerstrasse turned out wonderful. Our project was full of fun and joy and colour. Children would gladly prolong it until Friday and we could probably really be working for another week to make it all perfect and satisfy all the ideas and wishes.
Development of our project was really in stages and it involved everything: planing, drawing, sawing, measuring, gluing, use of all sorts of tools, printing, decorating, painting, building, sewing, assembling of mosaics. We made some chalk colour and painted the front of the suitcases.
Anyhow, children made beautiful little homes and they were very excited to exhibit them for their parents on our very last day. They also had great time with each other, made new friends, helped each other a lot and had the weather on their side.
Good good times!
Development of our project was really in stages and it involved everything: planing, drawing, sawing, measuring, gluing, use of all sorts of tools, printing, decorating, painting, building, sewing, assembling of mosaics. We made some chalk colour and painted the front of the suitcases.
Anyhow, children made beautiful little homes and they were very excited to exhibit them for their parents on our very last day. They also had great time with each other, made new friends, helped each other a lot and had the weather on their side.
Good good times!
Studying Der Blaue Reiter
An amazing few hours we had, making these beautiful paintings. We really took our time and that was fine. Children enjoyed the project with ease.
We went into this project just after the one in which children learned how to mix primary colours so this seemed and turned out as the most logical step forward. We looked at works of the group of artists called Der Blaue Reiter. The name itself is so great and mysterious. There is Berlin somewhere in that blue mystifying fog which reminds me of Nick Cave’s Witness song and it all gets double, triple artistic. Anyway, let’s leave it here heh.
Do have a look at these works! I love them and I am as always proud of my 5 and 6 years old students. Children are so very capable!
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 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 the works of my 7 and 8 year olds now. Somehow I was never a Depeche mode fan but I guess there comes a time for I just can’t get enough!
