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Summer Camp “What can you do with an old suitcase”

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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!

 

Found objects assemblage

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The amazing assemblages with found objects. One could do them all the time. They are so special and unique!
For this project children brought their own items because that way they really conect to their piece. They are involved from the begining. First finding items, then finding them interesting enough to use them, keeping them, thinking about them, bringing them along, this all gives so much to a process already. It’s much more exciting then finding a box full of items 10 minutes before we start  working, picking few things out.
Apart from that they all got a shoe box and it was all as simple as making a colourful frame out of paper for the box and then using glue to assemble the items the way etch child felt like. I was there more or less to glue some of the objects with hot glue.A lovely project!

Sticks and imagination

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For this project I only had sticks that I picked up in forest. Each child took one. The idea was to observe a stick and decide which animal to make out of it. Stick had to be a part of the animal, apart from that children could do as they pleased. When they decided which animal they would like to make they made a little sketch first and then they started working on cardboard. They were asked to make more layers of cardboard for the body so the animals would become a bit more three dimensional. I was surprised how good they were in making same shapes smaller and smaller reaching the 3D idea. As for colouring they were asked only to decorate and leave all the facial details out which was for some a bit hard but as you can see they’ve managed very well.
Beautiful collaged assemblaged animals and other creatures are now let free to admire!! Thinking, observing, drawing, comparing, constructing, cutting, gluing, decorating. Art is good!