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
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
Big mosaic
In the mosaic workshop attended by students of year 7 we made a large mosaic working in groups, each student was responsible for a color, … Read more
Christmas cards
Here in the UK it is very common to exchange greeting cards for Christmas, and since each of my children has at least 25 classmates, … Read more
Pop-up greeting cards
Just a little ‘of colored cardboard, scissors, glue and some felt-tip pens to send a special message to someone special!
Copying natural textures
With the Grade 7 (11 year-old) we made small copies from life of the natural textures with colored pencils. In the second phase we have … 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