from Thursdays class.

Tuesday class. Painting a mural

Eight kids in Tuesday's class. They painted their clay houses and sculptures and we started a mural! Both classes will be painting a mural at the Escondido Children's Museum, where our classes take place.

We'll be having a free reception on Saturday, Dec 15 from 11am-1pm. All the Mundo Lindo kids are invited, from all the sessions! Come see our mural and recent artwork.

The next 8-week session for Mundo Lindo begins the week Tuesday, Dec 4 and Thursday, Dec 6 and ends Tues, Jan 29 and Thursday January 31. Registration begins mid November through Tricia James 760-739-9513 or tjames@escondidochildrensmuseum.org

Thursday class does clay

Fifteen kids in class today. They worked in clay making boxes and birds. We also walked over to CCAE to see the Dia de los Muertos installation.

Thursday's class

Clay boxes Thursday

Next week, both classes will help me paint a mural on the wall of Escondido Children's Museum! That should be an adventure.

Tuesday Clay Day

The kids love working with clay! They request it every session. We use a red clay that air dries. I showed the 7 kids how to consturct a box shape using the slab technique. Last week, San Diego experienced county wide wild fires, and all the schools (and Mundo Lindo) were closed. As a group, we discussed the ramifications of the fire, overall, all were well and glad to be back to Mundo Lindo.

A special hello to Madison! We miss you too! Feel free to come by anytime!

Thursday Class

Sixteen kids in class today. They did a great job on the soft pastel pumpkins.

Both the Tuesday and Thursday classes are going to be painting a mural at Escondido Children's Museum on Oct 30 and Nov 1.

Tuesday Class Pumpkins in soft pastel

Just 6 kids in class today (the others were on a school field trip). I brought in an assortment of wonderful pumpkins, and we drew from those using soft pastels using Georgia O'Keeffee as our influence. The kids did a great job! These 6 will be on display at the Escondido Childrens Museum!

painting and stories...Thursday class

Big class today, 15 kids. We finished painting our papier mache, then drew pics of it, and wrote a story about it. We had time to have the kids who wanted to, read aloud their stories. We even had time for a dance performance by D and E!

Painting papier mache

Eight kids in Tuesday's class. Last week they made papier mache animals and this week, they painted them using acyrlic paint. I told them they could paint the animal either realistically or from their imaginations. I'm pretty sure she's painting a bee, though it could be a butterfly.

Painting papier mache

He's painting the black widow spider he made from papier mache.

Painting papier mache

Painting papier mache

Papier Mache Tuesday

After they created their papier mache animals, and painted them with acrylics, then they did a painting of their animal, and wrote a story about it around the painting.

Papier Mache

Everyone, including me, is working hard. Notice, I'm wearing a t-shirt from the Mundo Lindo Merchandise Line. :-)

Papier Mache

Papier Mache

Thursday class Papier Mache

14 kids in class today.

Papier Mache Drying

making papier mache Tuesday's class

Eight kids in class today, the first day of Session Three. We made papier mache with heavy duty aluminum as the armature, then covered it in liquid starch soaked newspaper. He made a squirrel

making papier mache

I think he's working on a tower. He also made a dolphin.

making papier mache

making papier mache

Both girls made bees.

papier mache drying

We'll paint them next week

Front Page News!!

Today's Local News, a newspaper serving Carlsbad, Escondido, Oceanside, San Marcos & Vista, published an article about Mundo Lindo on the FRONT page of their Sunday, 9/30/07 newspaper! Check it out! (click on the images to enlarge and read.)