The last 2 weeks saw a mixture of work being produced. Orlando used chalk to create a Galaxy and even though everything in my house became covered in a thin layer of chalk it was well worth it. The smaller ones had fun making masks and mixing Autumn colors to paint leaves which will then be cut out and stuck onto a tree. We also produced lovely Van Gogh paintings which much to my distraught where lost in transit of camera ;[.
I had acquired quite a few toilet rolls lately so thought the best way to put them to good use was to turn them into giraffes. The task was simple just adding a head and painting everything yellow and sticking on brown squares but the result is a really fun toy for the children to play with long after they have finished the art project.
I wanted the younger children to also have the chance to create a 'master piece' so looking through my art books I came to Kandinsky. His work is abstract and therefor can be copied by young children. The focus of his work was to enable color to express feelings. The children really enjoyed creating the colored circles and then had to focus hard to keep each square a different color.
We are constantly working on letter recognition with the children so spelling out simple words through art is alway a good way to make learning this fun. Here the children had to spell out Flower and then got to use crate paper to make some flowers. We also looked at African animals this week creating among other things a tiger piggy bank.
