Hi guys!
I have been really busy with the preparation of the carnival at Matilda's school, the teacher asked if any parent would help, and of course I jumped on it!!! What a pleasure when I heard that the theme was "famous painters", so for Matilda's class (pre 2) I decided to go with Kandinsky, one of my favorite painter.
After the teacher made a nice presentation of Wassily Kandinsky to the kids, she pulled up posters and pictures of his work in the classroom. We were set to start on our project...
Basically, I had the idea of making a "tunique" and a hat for each kid, based on those paintings,
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| Color Study by Wassily Kandinsky. For the"tuniques"... |
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Point and Line LEVEL by Wassily Kandinsky. For the "hats"...
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So it will give us something like that...
The biggest challenge we are facing is the number of kids in Matilda class, 30! We needed to have different activities going on at the same time, for them to not get bored! The tunique is made of 24 cardboard squares that they have to paint and glitter and another 24 paper squares that they will decorate and then glue on the cardboard squares.
After cutting 720 cardboard squares (8cmx8cm) that was fun!!!, I had the kids painting them in the color of their choice, and sprinkle glitters on them before the paint got dry.
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1, 2, 3, ...461, 462, ...718, 719 and 720 cardboard squares!!! |
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| the kids painting their squares... |
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| Even the tables at the end were pieces of art!!! |
Wassily Kandinsky used to be a musicien as well as a painter so I came up with an activity where music would be involved, basically, I was playing different kind of music tracks and the kids would translate what they feel drawing with wax crayons on their paper squares. This workshop is really fun, and the children won't forget this experience, I assure you!!!
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| I spread the crayons all over the table, the children need to reach the color with ease during the activity. |
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| A view of some work done by the kids... |
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| and more... I played some hip hop, classical, jazz, techno, hard core, african music... You need lots of different kind of rythmes to make this activity really fun ! |
Activity 3-
For this activity, I cut little shapes out of paper that I painted with acrylic (very important to use acrylic for the following) The kids had to create a little composition with those shapes within the paper square just using white glue.
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| Be sure to use Acrylic paint when you prepare your shapes, acrylic becomes waterproof when dry so the glue won't mess up the colors. |
Activity 4-
For the hat, I decided to use polystyrene forms, the kids had to paint them and once dry, draw some lines, shapes... on them with wax crayons.
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| We had over 120 shapes to paint... |
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| Matilda in action... |
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| Matilda after!! |
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| Our shapes drying and... |
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| getting customized... |
Activity 4-
I used flat colored toothpicks, so it was easy for the kids to insert them in the polystyrene shapes and interconnect them to make their ''hat/sculpture''. Then I sharpened some colored kebab sticks that we plant into the polystyrene shape for some ''lines'', and to finish the kids cut some thin black plastic tube that they glue on their hat/work. The hats will stay up on their heads just by adding an elastic.
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| Et voilà! just put an elastic to secure it on top of the kid's head... |
The kid's part is actually done, it took 6 school days for the 30 kids to prepare all the squares and finish their hats.
The teacher's assistant punched holes in the 4 corners of each cardboard squares...
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| That makes 2880 holes! Use the shapes hole puncher, you will end with nice confetti!!! |
I glued all the paper squares onto the cardboard squares...
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| They look amazing next to each others!... |
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| By piles of 24 squares... |
And then I assembled 60 times, 12 squares together with black plastic tubes.
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| over 80 meters of plastic tube... |
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| and lot of knots... |
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| this is the way I assembled the squares,... |
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| then I just stapled the straps with a strong paper . |
Here are all the tuniques next to each others before I stapled the paper straps...
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Waoow!!!!
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Here's my baby's work!!!
The school later on organized a little exhibition with the kids costumes, I was more than happy to come help again! we had to find a cool way to showcase their work, with little space, I managed to make a suspension with all their hats and arranged in a fun way their tunics.It was so fun to see the little ones again!!
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