This was such a fun project, an open art play. Children were very busy and they wouldn’t stop really. So much concentration and patience. Great work!
Archives for January 2019
Inside my head
As an upgrade to the previous project, Inside and outside of the houses, we talked about ourselves and our inner self. How do we look and what is happening in our minds, what are our favourite things, what do we like to do most, what we don’t like doing, maybe our favourable memory. Our inspiration was a book by Laurent Moreau, Woran denkst du.
Children drew their self-portraits on one watercolour paper and inside their heads on another. They first used pencils (gentle is THE word!), then markers and then they were taught how to use real aquarells. Aquarells were a little challenging but they opened door into a very interesting lesson. They are so very beautiful and playful, children love them! Since time was on our side all the children slowly reached towards understanding of these special paints and the results are all but unsuccessful!
Inside and outside of the houses
I have a book that I find pretty amazing. It’s called Woran denkst du?. I wished to do a project on the subject but since it’s quite abstract I decided to start with a similar project only instead of drawing our mind we drew houses. Houses are easy. We all have one, live in one, have someone living in one that we visit and so on. So we did it. We drew sinks, bedrooms, tables, stairs, spooky basements and all the rest that goes with it. As an extra inspiration we used a very nice book called Zuhause by Carson Ellis.
Cylindrical shape and preserved memories
This was such a cool project. I had an excuse to buy beautiful big old jars we used for drawing. Children needed to observe the form, jar’s opening and jar’s bottom. When the form was in place we spoke about the most valuable memory the children could think of. This project was an inspiration from Small hands big art blog (thank you for this valuable and rich idea!).
The hardest thing was to place the memory into the jar making it stand and not float and also what happens with the sky or the colour of the room in the jar’s opening.
I did this project with a group of mostly 6 years old children and with the group of 8+. Very pretty results I would say.
Elephant collage
This was a very nice activitiy inspired by Small Hands Big Art’s amazing blog. I love the black paper we used and the credit cards are extra fun. Special usage of cards as brushes is reall enjoyment to play around. How and where to press on the card, which direction to pull it into, movements you can use to create different results. The effect is great and it’s amazing to see how they bring colours into mixing. A nice project with a clear goal.
