ThanksGiving

With so many American children coming to Art en Casa we decided this week to celebrate Thanks Giving. It was a great chance to get the children to think of all the things that made them happy and they could say Thank You for. They now all know what a turkey is as we made quite a few ! We used our hands to print them, colored some in and make a turkey hats with the older kids.
Happy Thanks Giving !

Animal Fun

Young children always love making animals so this week we did just that. Using brown paper bags we make puppet elephants. The younger children are still working on their cutting skills so cutting out the different parts for the elephant was hard work for them. Next we made a 3D fish.
This was made using all recycled material like serial boxes for the base and old magazines to stuff the fish. The children painted and decorated their fish ready to hang up with the other animal trophies.

Van Gogh

This week we had a go at Van Goghs' Bedroom. We talked about what we could see and the colors he used. Then children started off by having to piece together the picture like a puzzle. Once all the parts where stuck in place they began to paint trying to copy the colors from the original picture. We where left with real master pieces !

Halloween lanterns

A great way to recycle old yogurt pots is to make these Halloween lanterns. Just cover them in orange crate paper add scary eyes and mouth and finish by slipping in a small tea light. We made these at the end of last class as sadly this weeks 'Halloween' class was canceled due to the national Census day.
Happy Halloween !!

Writting letters

In Art en Casa as well as teaching the youngest children art skills we work on learning our numbers and letters. Its never too early for children to learn these and you can make them into really fun art activities with just a little imagination. Last week we worked on writing our alphabet all 26 letters. I had the letters written out in a grid in pencil and the children had to find the first letter of their name or any other they recognized. We then went through each one and thought of things which started with that sound. Then the children used a crayon to trace over each letter. They finished off by painting each square a different color with water paints which meant the crayon letter could be seen through the paint.These posters are great for the children to then take home and hang on their bedroom wall.
Orlando made a very funny looking dog using some left over pom poms he was given at school.

Air Guitars

We had so much fun making these guitars last week. They sounded really good even though some got squashed in the excitement ! Everything was made using recycled bits then brightened up with crate paper. I think in the future we will look to making many more instruments.

Warhol and dirty hands

This week we had another go at creating art like the masters. This week we looked at Andy Warhol who was famous for being in the Pop Art movement. One of his specialties was producing a commercial image over and over again, so we went with Micky Mouse. The kids of course loved Micky and had to focus hard to keep the different colors apart. After that they got to get dirty with some hand painting which always goes down with much laughter.