Damien Hirst for Kids!

Damien Hirst's spot paintings are great creations to show your kids. They inspire them to work with the simple colored dot stickers in a more thought out way, making a whole creation just using these stickers.
Below are two examples of Hirst's spot paintings I printed out (he- and/or his assistants did more than 1500 of them). They range from tiny to huge. I showed the kids the painting with a woman standing next to it so they could understand the scale.

We had different approaches to the dots-project.
A symmetrical approach.

One that worked with the stickers in a three dimensional way.

A free style approach.

At the end of the session I gave the kids the surprise scratch paper.

And here some more photos of the warm up at the beginning of the session: drawing monsters and telling stories.

CLAY AND PLASTELLINA

This week was dedicated to sculpting with soft materials. First (after warming up with crayons on large paper), we made plastellina images in CD cases. In an clear, empty CD case (the ones we are ready to recycle) make with different colored plastellina "flat" sculptures, so when you close the case you have a frame. This can be a great project to take on a long carride, since you have a base to work on.

One of the finished/work in progress creations.

For the second part of the session, we made clay sculptures. Some younger kids were hesitant to touch it at first, but after they tried, they loved it as well. I suggested we make pinch pots, but everyone was free to create what they wished. And they wished gardens, with glitter, LOTS of glitter.

RABBITS COLLAGE AND FINGERPRINTS

We are back after the spring break with a fun collage and fingerprints session. We used white circles for the rabbits and glued them to green paper. Then we used white paint and printed with our indexfingers ears and fluffy tails.

Then, we continued decorating the bunnies' faces with markers and glued flowers to the background.

 

Look at those happy bunnies!