A fantastic hour with minis. Houses, trees and the weather. They loved it!
Printing
Block printing
My kids just love printing. Printing and clay. If they won’t know the project ahead they will shout PRINTING!! or CLAY!!
And I will go Well not today heh, I’m not prepared.
Boring.
So I prepared that morning. Or maybe a previous day. I got up with a mission! Coffee and printing!! Coffee and block printing!! Coffee and block printing of folk birds and horses!!
Inspiration was a Marimekko designer Sanna Annukka. No really, more than her was Smallhandsbigart, where I saw lovely bird prints of children from another side of the planet.
Print me a horse
This was a lovely easy going project. These girls all love horses, of course, they have seen them many times and they therefor had no problem of drawing one. How cute and self confident are these? I just love them.
Instructions are, I think, well captured on the photos. Draw, cut out, add materials, a bit of cutting again, add colour, print.
Simple and efficient!
Styrofoam printing
Some more printing moments captured in this post. Styrofoam prints this time.
Printing is fun!!
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 Eric Carle’s illustrations
This project was done in one of my mini classes with 3-6 years old children. We read one of many Eric Carle’s books and had a little discussion about what illustrations are, who is an illustrator and what is his job. Then we looked carefully at Carle’s work and we tried to do some ourselves. Sleeves up and works began!
Children used all sorts of materials and everyday objects to make colourful printed paper. Then they decided what they want to make out of it and before it was dry (who has time for that!) they cut out their shapes. I helped with some drawing. Then they made animals, cars, clouds, airplanes, even books! How cute are they!
