We read a book Mog’s Christmas and we’ve made some Christmas decorations. Children were using natural materials, wire, beads and buttons. They created some lovely mobiles.
Archives for November 2018
Still Life of an old Camera and a coffee grinder
Two hours of observational drawing. Observed were the old cameras and old coffee grinder. It was quite a lot of fun. The group was very excited and tried all sorts of drawing: drawing with mouth, with left hand for right handed and opposite, drawing without looking, drawing in one line and even drawing with the feet.
Apart from that we talked about 3-D and how to draw perspective. After making many sketches children drew a final drawing with inks and feathers.
Styrofoam printing
Some more printing moments captured in this post. Styrofoam prints this time.
Printing is fun!!
Mini Puppets
This was such a sweet little project. We read an African book in which a friendship between various animals is seriously challenged.
The variation of the animals helped children decide between three different animals they should blend into one.
The cocktail was delicious! 
Pipe cleaners and beads
I find pipe cleaners and plastic pony beads somehow off-putting. I could include some other stuff here like googly eyes, school markers or colour-ins for example. I think with me anything to do with easy crafts goes in that brain field.
But I do know all these things are also really unbeatable. If you want to work on child’s coordination, on fine motor skills or just do something relaxing without them really need to think, hey, pipe cleaners, colour ins, pony beads, school markers, googly eyes!
And yes, why not.
This is a great and valuable exercise for little finger muscles and wrists, for concentration and patience. And they had much fun! More then I would like to admit! But I swipe my pride under this table.
St.Martin’s Lanterns
The magic of 11.11 and the beautiful city of little lights and songs singed by tiny voices.
We were ready! We made the pretty lanterns with crayons, water colours and inks. We used aquarell paper and thicker drawing paper, both were fine. When the paintings were dried I oiled them with kitchen oil, children beaded the wires and wrapped the sticks in wool (one could just as well use some tiny tree branches and they would look even nicer).
They looked lovely in the night but my phone photos are no prove at all so I’m not posting any!
Studying Paul Cézanne and still life
Still life, fruit plates and old stories. We went in the past and enjoyed the process a lot. Children drew and cut out the fruits and then made different structures with various tools. They made some plates, some juice glasses and straws too. Voila!
Printing Elmer
We read a book Elmer the Elephant in the Mini class and we did some sponge dipping for the patchwork elephant and some brush painting for the carnival elephant.
Of course you have to read the book if you want to understand that!
It was fun!
