Art in Early childhood education
Art is such an important part of early childhood education. There are so many valuable skills learned by creating art. Click the link to learn what is really happening when a child creates art! Early childhood and art
The past couple weeks the children have been invited to get inspiration from different famous artist and create their own using interesting and engaging techniques. It has been such a wonderful journey watching the children feel proud of their work and discover all types of art.
At the end of the week we created an 'Art Exhibit' in our classroom for the parents and visitors to enjoy!
Claude Monet
The Japanese Bridge
We used a special technique while inspired by this bridge and water painting. The children first created an image using crayons and than after using water colors. The crayon which has a wax texture came through the water color and created a unique experience.
Claude Monet
Water lilies
Inspired by this painting, we used chalk and Vaseline to help create the oil paint look.
The process is as important!
Yisroel problem solving how to make the chalk into chalk dust that was needed for the project. First he used his weight and than decided a heavy block would work more efficiently.
Dovi enjoyed sticking his finger in the Vaseline and mixed it with the chalk. It was quite a sensory experience!
Our main goal with the art unit was for each child to feel special and unique while sharing their work with others and verbalizing the process of what they created.
Von Gogh
"The Starry Night"
We invited the children to use a shaving cream technique to create their version of "The starry night"
While getting inspiration from the art piece Devorah Leah and Motty created swirl affects with a fork.
There are two versions of this painting. One using WARM COLORS and one using COOL COLORS.
Max helped us learn why he thought they were called warm colors. "It reminds me of lava"
Bela Riva using her fine motor skills to create the silhouette for the sky painting.
Piet Mondrian
His art consisted of white ground, upon which he painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors.
Jackson Pollock
Inspired by his drip art using his whole body.
Evan found his own 'brush' to use!
Jewish Art!
Mr. Michoel Muchnik (Devorah leah and Menachems zaidy/grandfather)
is a world renown Jewish artist who came to visit us and inspire us about Jewish art.
(check out his website for inspiring art http://www.muchnikarts.com/)
At first he made grapes and than asked the children "How can we put a Jewish twist to this?"
"Put it on a Kiddush cup".
This gave the children such inspiration that even after his visit they enjoyed creating Jewish art books to be shown at the art exhibit!
Working on beautiful mosaic art of the seven fruits of Israel!
Hebrew Letter Daled
The children were invited to draw chalk on the letter Daled to help review and recognize the letter.
Muka discovered if she removed the tape it looked neat.
Levi Yitzchak proud of his daled.
