Escondido History CEnter and painting

Our papier mache, from last week, wasn't dry yet, so we had to quickly think of what to do. As you can see, above, it was a beautiful day, and the kids had plenty of energy!
So, we took a short walk  to the Escondido History Center, right in Grape Day Park.

Wendy Barker, Executive Director was kind enough to give the kids a tour of this restored farm house built in 1890.



The house was decorated for Christmas.





Once we got back, after a stop on the tractor, we drew and painted cloth.





Stay tuned next week to see if these become sachets or gift bags or stuffed ornaments.









Nineteen kids!

Here are their projects, all finished. 

  
Jonathan came to visit! the photo on the left is him now, at 16 (with his sister, who is in Mundo Lindo now) and the photo on the right is Jonathan in 2007. 

papier mache

who needs papier mache, when you have aluminum foil?

We did papier mache, using balloons as our form. The papier mache will be dry by next week and we'll paint it.

Brittany, our wonderful teenage volunteer

Kathleen, our wonderful grownup volunteer!

After the kids were done with the balloon, they could form an armature with aluminum foil, and then papier mache over it.

Victor made a dinosaur

Again, fun with aluminum foil!

Class ends December 20 and starts up again January 10th, Thursdays from 3-5 (pre registration required)

a museum visit and self portraits

We visited the California Center for the Arts, Escondido museum. First, we discussed 'museum etiquette' and as one kid put it 'library voices.' They did great! We walked around, discussed the exhibition of work by Raúl Anguiano. On display was work of his from when he was 5 years old to the end of his life. It was great showing the kids his early drawings.
Much of his work was portraiture, so we used that as inspiration for our class.


Back in the classroom, I did a portrait demo, showing proportions, and they worked in chalk pastel.