After reading the book which really is cute and funny and deserves every attention, we had fun drawing the old lady and all she stuffed into her belly.
watercolours
Connecting with John Cage
At music students made their own music pieces. They were doing them collaboratively so we kept the same groups at art. We talked about John Cage and his work in music and visual art.
Each student in a group got a piece of transparent tracing paper and worked on it in various media while listening to music they created.
At the end we joined the work of every child in a group by placing pieces on top of each other and observed the different visual expressions on light tables and windows.
Sweet and less sweet little bacterias
This workshop was held at school with 3 year old children regarding the school unit and also at my private studio with 3-6 years old children. It was very sweet.
We spoke about bacterias, dirty hands and all those coughing methods.
We read through a funny book of funny harry little guys with sharp teeth and then we made some ourselves. With inks and pipettes.
The children decided on a kindness of bacterias and made their expressions. Aren’t they great?
Drawing the birds
We love Piggy and elephant books at our mini classes. We read There is a bird on your head. So what else can you do than draw birds on each other’s heads? I choose birds because these are pretty small children and drawing is still quite a big deal and a challenge. Birds are fairly easy. And they really did good!
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!
Animal masks
After reading a book Masks in the forest children made animal masks. They were working their finger muscles by gluing little pieces of paper on not such small surface. Quite some patience and focus were demanded and they did it really well.
