Creativity in the classroom and in life
I love Rothko, I try to teach who he is and what he has done. The easiest way is to copy his works of art, his colour’s fields and compositions. With soft pastels start creating fields of colour on white, black or … Read more
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.
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.
A simple system to simulate an ancient parchment is to use coffee to paint and stain the paper !
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
