After doing a lesson about Shapes and Forms as elements of art my colleague Francesca Dallago created these 3-D solids with Grade 7th students. They traced the lines on a white cardboard (220 gr/sq … [Read more...]
I-cube: me in numbers
Can we introduce ourselves with numbers? We can do it on the 6 sides of a cube! We called this activity I-cube and we used numbers to explain our hobbies, our special numbers, our relatives and our … [Read more...]
Nativity in the style of Romero Britto
For this Christmas we decided to participate in a contest of cribs that takes place in our town. With the students of 6th grade, in the class C, we made a Nativity scene, inspired by the Brazilian … [Read more...]
Participation in the opera “Aida”
Opera Domani is a project for the opera productions, introduced by educational paths. With our school we attended the performance of the opera "Aida -Love is Courage" at the Auditorium of … [Read more...]
Custom placemarks in the class
Again we are talking about names to learn, and faces to remember ... These cards with names can be personalized with a symbol or a small drawing that identifies the interests or character of the … [Read more...]
An articulate manikin
With the students of Year 8 we built an articulated manikin made of cartonboard which served as a model for drawing figures in motion. Each student has chosen a pose for his manikin, which could be … [Read more...]
Three dimensional Mirò
I thought of a way to create a three-dimensional structure with the characteristic drawings by Joan Miro, which are specifically two-dimensional. Students have copied some drawings by Miró with a … [Read more...]
Asian Inspired Fans with paper plates
With students of Year 6 we painted some fans in Oriental style, with colorful watercolors on the background and silhouettes of bamboo plants and branches with cherry blossoms painted in black ink. For … [Read more...]
Silhouettes of chairs for poetic evocations
PRIVATE GIG With some students we choose some different shapes of chairs to cut out from different sorts of paper in order to create a suggestive composition. The students tried to give an … [Read more...]
Pop-up with the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World
With the pupils of Year 3 of Cherry Garden Primary School we realized these pop-up card to summarize their topic about the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World. Every student realized a colorful pop-up card … [Read more...]