PRINTING WITH CAKE PAPER

This week, we started off with printing! We laid first the paper base for cake decorations on the paper and used paint to cover the sheet; the paint goes through the little openings and when we took the cake base off, a beautiful pattern revealed itself.

We then continued printing with cookie cutters to add more shapes.

And finally, the kids used their fingertips and hands to print more shapes!

The second project this week was collage. We used the cake bases and cut them into pieces. The kids practiced their scissor skills with foam pieces and they added also beautifully patterned pieces of fabrics.



COLLAGE ON FOIL

The rainy season has started and there's a cozy atmosphere where little artists gather for an hour of creativity!

I attached foil to a board for the base of this week's collage. We first added a lot of glitter directly to the cup of glue, and spread it on the foil. Then we attached tissue paper in various shapes and colors, to make a very shiny and bright image.

As we were already going with the tissue paper shapes, I decided we could try painting with tempera and also there attach tissue paper, to experiment free painting combined with the existing shapes of the tissue papers.

And to end the session, some always go back to the real feel of the paint!

BOOK ART

You have probably found your kids scribble in a book before, which usually is not such a great idea! At the art chug this week it was allowed: I found a book with some torn pages and decided it was okay to tear other pages out for the children to draw on. So, today, we did "Book Art". The idea was to use many different drawing tools on the book pages. First, we used pens, then markers, then oil pastels and, finally, watercolor. Some were interested in mixing all the tools on one page, others prefered to use each on a different page. And some tried to mix the oil pastels with water to see the effect.

For the rest of the session, we prepared playdough and poured out the last energies of the day with rollers and shaking out a lot of glitter; all this with happily exchanging colors with the "art-partners".

FLOWERS

This week, I brought in flowers for still life again. We have drawn flowers as a still life before, and it's amazing to see how, slowly, the kids start to draw realistically! They used markers to draw lines first, and then watercolor to paint.

For the second part I brought in wooden sticks in all sizes, to glue to a board in different compositions. After that, we used tempera paint to color the reliefs; painting on a three dimensional piece is a different challenge than a regular painting. It's fun to use mixed media like that!