Sadly we have come to the end of the school year and Art en Casa. The past year has really been so much fun for me, Caro [ our teaching assistant] and the children. They have created many great works of art but more than anything have had fun doing it and become firm friends.
With Christmas fast approaching its that time of year when you get to make really fun festive crafts. It always takes me back to when I was child and I find myself so happy making the same kinds of things I was doing 25 years ago ! With it being so hot this time of year its hard to imagine a traditional Christmas that's why its so fun to make very traditional things. This last week we have made Christmas cards, trees, snow men and angels. I hope all these things will give the children a feeling of a old fashioned cold winter !
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. 
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 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 !
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.
