birds in the nests
assemblage
Louise Nevelson visited
Children were asked to bring their old little items, toys, toothbrushes, things that were once used and have passed their time. Time to recycle!
I printed out some photos of Louise Nevelson and her work and then we spoke about her, about items she collected and found on the streets and amazing works she did with them.
I don’t have many photos of the process and also these aren’t great, I’m sorry, the works were still wet. But anyhow we enjoyed it a lot and learned some great stuff making these asemblages. Like how stiff does a painted, dried out toothbrush gets! Ha!
Folk art at the spring Camp, Arpilleras-Berlilleras
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!
Summer Camp “What can you do with an old suitcase”
Our first summer camp at Raumerstrasse turned out wonderful. Our project was entertraining, merry and joyfull. 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 new times!
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 new times!
Birds’ nests
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.
Giant ice creams
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.
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!
Greek mythologicical monsters
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. We had much fun and we also learned. With our exhibition we are now teaching others.
Found objects assemblage
The amazing assemblages with found objects. One could do them all the time. They are so special and unique.
Children brought in their own items. That way they really connect to their piece and are involved from the beginning. Finding items, keeping and bringing them, showing them to the others. This all gives so much to a process already.
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 only to glue some of the objects with hot glue. A lovely project!
Sticks and imagination
Each child got one stick that I picked in the forest. The instructions were to observe the stick and decide which animal to make out of it. It had to be part of the animal.
When they decided on an animal they made little sketches first and then started working on cardboard.
They were then asked to make more layers of cardboard for the body so the animals would become a bit 3D. I was surprised how good they were in making same shapes smaller and smaller.
As for colouring they were told only to decorate and leave all the facial details out which was a little hard for some children.
Beautiful collaged assemblaged animals and other creatures are now let free to admire.
Thinking, observing, drawing, comparing, constructing, cutting, gluing, decorating. Art is good!
