Working with complementary colors
A simple exercise inspired by the shapes of Matisse to learn about complementary colors. Prepare a 5x5cm grid and then you draw freeform shapes, coloring with alternating complementary colors.
Folder for herbarium
For the Science project the pupils of 7th grade created a folder to collect herbs, with cardboard, wrapping paper, leaves, paper, crayons and colored ribbons.
Ancient Parchment… with coffee
A simple system to simulate an ancient parchment is to use coffee to paint and stain the paper !
Pop-up castle
An idea for a pop-up castle! You just need some cardboards of different colors, and follow the instructions: you must fold the dashed lines and … Read more
Website for Word-Clouds
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in … Read more
Big collage landscape
Every student painted 5 different texture with tempera colours: grass, rocks, sky,water and wood. We cut the sheets and composed two big mountain landscapes with … Read more
Puppets with dancing legs
With a photo of the face, a card and a rubber band you can make these easy and fun puppets, then you can decorate them … Read more
Special bookmarks to welcoming the new pupils at school
To welcome the kids in fifth grade, which will begin to attend school next yearwe prepared bookmarks printed and plasticized, using images from the drawings … Read more
Sentences in complementary colors
We have created a painting inspired by the works of Paul Klee and Alighiero Boetti using letters of the alphabet as a pretext to create … Read more
Fishes in warm and cool colors …
With the 6th grade students, we made an acrylic painting to experience the variety of warm and cool colors. Working on color theory we discovered how … Read more
Vases, jars, bowls and glasses …
With the students of ceramics course we decorated the first vessels handbuilded with the pinch technique and coils technique. The colors used are Engobes coated … Read more