Doodle Easter Eggs
I’ve found this project on the amazing web site of Alisa Burke and my daughter tried to do it for an “Easter Eggs School competition”… … Read more
Ceramic soap dish with leaf’s print
This is red clay, we added texture with leaves pressing them on the clay slab, then we put the slab in a small dish to give … Read more
Inspired by Rothko
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
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.
Masks made of DAS
Terracotta or White DAS is an air hardening, non toxic, malleable modelling clay. Fine textured and easy to smooth, DAS can be used on a … Read more
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
Print and stencil decorations on cotton fabric
With pupils of 7th grade we decorated cotton fabric bags with colors for fabric. They cut some stencil from transparent acetate plastic sheets and painted … 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