Food Art

 Last week we used food to help us get creative. We used fruit and vegetables to make a funny face then used collage to make pieces of fruit to stick into a basket. Next we dyed pasta and cheerios to make necklaces. The children loved to thread on this larger scale much better than the sowing last week. Sadly only a week left before the holidays as most ex-pats head out of Ba for the winter.

Underwater

Underwater madness took place this week. We started off making our very own aquariums by cutting open and painting an old cereal box. We then drew and cut out some fish, hanging them up with some thread. In background we added more fish and on the ground some shells and starfish. I then tried to have the children sow up some 3D fish from 2 pieces of rubber card stuffed with newspaper but this was a disaster as needles kept falling off and many knots formed so in the end we had to give up and just staple them together ! We finished with an underwater collage. 

Life drawing/Famous artists

 Life drawing is the best way to get children to improve their observation and basic art skills. I usually set up 3 or 4 simple objects in the middle of the table and then explain to the children that they must copy what they see being very carful to draw things in proportion to each other, focus on 'size' of each object. Manouk who is a very gifted 5 year old drew a lovely piece which she then painted. After our drawing exercise we looked at famous artists like Van Gogh and had a go painting over a basic photocopy of his work Starry Night.