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.

Fish fun

This week we went under water with some fish fun. Making all kinds of fish is always a great topic as there are so many ways to make a fish ! We made a fish collage using shiny papers, painted our hands to make fish, octopus and crabs in the sea. We ended with a wiggling fish just made from colored card and two thin wooden sticks.

Seth and Bo

Seth and Bo started classes at the beginning of March and have been coming twice a week ever since, but now sadly they are heading back to the UK. I have really loved having these 2 brothers come every MOnday and Friday and will really miss not having them here. I was worried having a child so young but Bo has been so easy going smiling and content for every class. Seth always makes me laugh how he bosses his little brother around but the truth is they never really seem to fall out. I really hope I get to see them again, maybe back here in Buenos Aires or in some distant
place. Safe journey home................

Buildings and haunted houses

This weeks topic was Buildings which allowed us to make everything from 3D haunted houses to Tepees. First we looked at drawing a city sky line. Most of the children had never really used a ruler before so we worked on getting our lines as straight as possible. Then we added windows, roof and doors. After making our haunted houses by using thin card cut and folded in a certain way to make it sit out we finished with the Tepees. Most of the children had never seen or heard of a Tepee and just called it a 'party hat' !

Monsters

This week we thought it would be fun to make Monsters. We started by drawing lots of little ones to try out different mouths, eyes and silly limbs. We then went on to make a large hanging one and lastly we are waiting to finish off our puppet monsters.
Seth had a private class last week so we had fun making a foot print flower.