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Art enrichment: Necklace design

2/22/2018

 
Today's art project was making a necklace because C requested last time that she wanted to make some jewelries like bracelets or necklaces. Look at these beautiful colors of the beads! We used the plain wooden beads and put it in the jars filled with the liquid water colors.
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The colors came out so soft and pastel.
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The next step was to decide the necklace design. Should we do the beads all around the string or just a few of them in front? C decided to go for the 2nd design. 
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C laced it one by one and tried to make patterns. She repeated to herself, "purple - purple - blue,.."
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She was proud of her workmanship and decided to make another one for mommy. She said, "I want to add a point gem in the middle," and she started to do it on her own. She said, "My daddy's going to ask me where I bought it. He will be surprised if I tell him I made it!!" Sure he will! 

Art enrichment: Koi Fish Mobile

2/15/2018

 
To celebrate Chinese New Year, I was thinking what could be a good craft for the young children. We made dragon many times and I couldn't think of any good art and craft ideas about the theme related to the year of dog, so I decided to make a Koi Fish Mobile. I gave the idea and 4 year old C was just being creative about it with the materials. Her fine motor was shining in this project. 
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Supplies we used :
- Toilet paper rolls
- Origami paper (cut in semi circle shapes)
- Tissue paper in different colors
- Googley eyes
- Wire
- Yarn
- Branch

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Art enrichment : Marble painting - Valentine Day's card

2/8/2018

 
Guess what we did in this art class! 
We experimented how shaving cream would react with water color paint. 
The supplies were shaving cream, liquid water color, dropper, skewer stick, cardboard scraper, and white paper.
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First, the children spread the shaving cream on the tray. Using the liquid dropper, they dropped different colors of the liquid water color.
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The children used the skewer stick and mixed the colors. The children commented, "Look, it looks like a tornado!" 
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 And then, they pressed the white paper lightly on the shaving cream and scraped out the excess shaving cream with the cardboard scraper.
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The marbling came out so beautiful!! O said, "The colors are dancing!"
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The children cut it in heart shape and used it for making a Valentine's Day card for mommy. I didn't have a chance to take a picture of it :(, but it came out lovely! 
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Name Initial Art  (Art enrichment)

2/5/2018

 
Last Thursday in art, we did a beautiful collage on a cardboard paper. The letter was the student's initial and using all the materials, she was free to explore them any way she wanted to decorate it. Here are the materials we used :

Cardboard (one for the cut-out letter, another one for the background)
Washi tapes
Yarns
Pom poms
twigs
hot glue gun
tempera paint 

It sounds so many materials, but it was just what we had in our atelier. :)
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It was amazing how 4 years old can come up with great taste of colors and arranging the materials!
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Her color choices were pink, blue and yellow and she wanted to add little bit of white in all the colors to soften it.  
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Isn't it fun to look at? I love it!!
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