Art classes in Berlin
Our two days long camp was inspired by folk art. We were making our own arpilleras, that are actually connected to our life not the one in Chile, so maybe they should be Berlilleras.
I came across this lovely project at smallhandsbigart and I am immensely grateful for this site loves to share and give opportunity to others to try their great ideas. I might just not think of it myself.
So I had tones of different scraps of cloth and much of glue and this is what happened. Love it!
We read There is a bird on your head by Elephant&Piggie. The book is really funny and my mini course group had much lough. After the reading we spoke about the nests, what is in them, who is in them, what are they made of. The children then each got a paper and were challenged to make nests with it’s inhabitants. Photos do speak for themselves.
Ice creams are a thing, you can’t ever go wrong there. And if you make them giant you are double well off.
This is a lovely spring/summer art project. Easy and tasty. Inspired by lovely artbar.
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!
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. Of course we had much fun and we also learned. With our exhibition we are now teaching others 
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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!
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!
The children made each their own little creature out of recycling materials and materials taken from nature. It took us a little longer to finish this project but it was cheerfull. Children also made homes for their little fellows and voilà!
