Happy Easter

Easter is always a time to get nice and creative so we had plenty to keep us busy this week. We made bunnies from toilet rolls, trees covered in eggs as is traditional in Austria and Germany [ http://projects.ajc.com/gallery/view/travel/intdestinations/easter-egg-tree/] and baskets to put eggs in. The baskets where just made from decoration a sheet of plain A4 card and then making two cuts down each end, bringing the sides together to staple. After you add a handle made from colored card adding crape paper flowers. For the inside I have the kids cut up strips of green paper to look like grass.
We have had 5 new students join us in the last 2 weeks so welcome to Cash, Maria Fernanda, Felix, Sophie, and Lucia.

Africa

As the weeks fly by I am finding it harder coming up with new topics so this week I just went with a whole continent , Africa. From the huge range of African craft ideas I came across in books and the internet I decided on masks, monkey and lions. We had great fun making the masks. First the kids had to cut out all the different parts of the face, mouth, eyes, eyebrows ect and stick them down. Then they painted the entire face brown and once it had dried used cotton buds with white paint to add decoration to their masks. We also had some drums to make but sadly ran out of time.

Starry Night

This weeks theme was inspired from Van Goghs Starry Night painting. We had a look at what goes on at night time, what is in the sky and what creatures come out at night time. Owls seemed to be a fun topic to work on so we printed some onto dark purple paper using old tea towels cut to owl shape and stuck onto a piece of card. We then added legs, eyes and beaks.