Monday, March 29, 2010

DreamBoat

 Here's my boat, made from Ann Wood's tutorial. I'm going to simplify the sail for the kids. I made mine from fabric, and hand sewed it.
 

Friday, March 26, 2010

busy place

 With about 20 kids, Mundo Lindo is a busy, creative place!
 

boats

 I read about this fabulous project from Ann Wood and had to try it with the kids. As usual, I'm just one step ahead of them, and will be assembling my mast and sail this week at home, to teach it to them next week! Here they're make boats, from cereal boxes and papier mache-ing them.
 

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sittin not on a dock in the bay

Here are a couple of the papier mache boats drying in the sun. We'll paint them next week and add masts and sails.

Papier mache

 Some of the kids got their boats finished in time to create more figures (with aluminum foil as the armature) and we also covered plastic Easter eggs with papier mache. We'll paint everything next week.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Masks!

 Brian collected a whole bunch of palm fronds in Grape Day Park, during the last rain storm. So, the kids designed and painted masks on the fronds. Here I am, showing them the process. 

design the mask

 I brought in a bunch of images of masks from different cultures and asked the kids to look at them for inspiration. Then, to draw their design on a piece of paper.
 

draw the design in chalk

 Then, they drew the design again, with chalk, on to the mask. We soon realized the palm frond had a hole where the nose would be, so some redesign was neccessary.

painting

 We used acylics to paint them, and Jasmin got out the smocks to protect their clothes.

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a little time for help with homework from Monica