Monday, June 29, 2015

Chldren's Craft: Melted Crayon Butterflies

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We already used melted crayons on rocks. When I saw these beautiful butterflies at Artbarblog  I knew we had to give it a try. It was big fun last Saturday :-) I printed out a simply butterfly pattern from the internet, which we folded in the middle (and unfolded it).  First...

Children's Arts: Painting like Morris Louis....

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Using this great curriculum for children to explore famous artist, we took advantage of the brilliant weather and did some messy stuff outside in the garden ;-)) Since we are so fond of Helen Frankenthaler, the idea was to paint like Morris Louis and his way of color field paintings: We taped heavy...

Big relieve.....

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A few weeks ago we found this mysterious thing while gardening, which we figured out in the internet was the cocoon of an owlet moth.... We prepared a jar following a instruction from the internet and placed the cocoon inside....we waited ever since and nothing seemed to happen.... When I started to...

Friday, June 26, 2015

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Children's Art: Drawing in the sand

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When I came to the school yesterday at noon to pick up our children, I found to very sweet little first grades sitting in the sand infront of the bicycle rack. They drew with their fingers in the sand and the regularity of the pattern caughted my eye. When I asked them what they are doing, they...

Friday, June 19, 2015

Drops

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Even the cold and rainy weather we currently experience in Hamburg has its beautiful sides :-) ...

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Children's Crafts: Even More Sun Catcher ;-)

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As you may have realized...we are really fond of sun catcher....:-) Yesterday we tried something new: We used acrylic glass plates (about 17x17cm) and colored transparent acrylic glass mosaic stones. This morning we hang them up and really love the result ;-) ...

Monday, June 15, 2015

Da Vinci in Hamburg/Germany

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One afternoon last week we took the chance and visited an exhibition about the great Leonardo Da Vinci. The exhibition was smaller than expected, but there were a very interesting section with decent models of Da Vincis mechanical inventions, which the children (and the adults) were allowed to try...

Children's Crafts: Multiplicity of grass

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Walking in our neighborhood I suddenly realized how many different blades of grass one can find even on tiny spots next to the main traffic roads.... On our way home one evening we picked as many different as we could find and used the laminator to make sun catcher out of them :-) ...

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Children's Art: Homage to Joan Miró

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A few weeks ago The children and I visited an excellent exhibition showing the fascinating work of the spanish artist Joan Miró. The children were enchanted by the simplicity and clearness of Miró's colors and symbols. Yesterday I asked them to draw pictures, trying to remember what they liked best...

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Nydam Ship

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Last weekend while anchoring in the Alssund, we took the dinghy to explore the surrounding. A bit further up in Sottrupskov a rebuild Nydam-Ship can be seen. Nydam-Ships were clinker build warships qualified for high sea travels. They were rowed by up to 36 men. 1863 just before...

Ladybug larva

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How are we supposed to see the beloved ladybug, if we do care for their larva? This morning Magdalena asked some boys before school not to wantonly step on this little one....good deed of the day ;-) ...

Da-Vinci-Bridge

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Yesterday came home from school enthusiastically talking about the handicrafts lessons. They built a bridge completely supporting itself without any mounting material following an idea of the great Leonardo Da Vinci ...Over the whole afternoon and even this morning before breakfast...

Children's Art: Flowing Paint II

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Yesterday we repeated this experimental use of paint with the Children Painting Group applying the method of Helen Frankenthaler. Each child was allowed to chose 5 different colors of acrylic paint. We had to thin this down a bit using 1:1 gesso and a tiny little bit of water. After...

Monday, June 8, 2015

Children's Art: Leave Prints

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Last Friday we all the sudden had beautiful weather with 30°C...We rather spend our art time in the garden :-) The children used acrylic paint and leaves they found in the garden to make some prints. Later they got more experimental sticking leaves on the paper using paint or using parts of the newspapers...

Friday, June 5, 2015

Children's Crafts: T-shirt print

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This summer the children love to design their own T-shirts. For this one we did leave prints using textile color. The result at first is very nice. I like the pattern of the print very much. It is just that after the first round of washing the color faded (which let some tears appear :-( ) and we have...

Children's Craft: A new round of sun catcher...

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A while ago we made sun catcher by painting with acrylic paint on acrylic glass plates. It was a fun thing to do and for the first time, the results seem to be ok, but I was not quite satisfied. Magdalena and I tried it again yesterday using Sharpies for outlining and filling the fields this time. It...

Children's Art: Another Black Board Picture

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This time it was Friedrich's turn to draw on the new black board. On the first sight this piece might not seem too special. But I like it for some reasons: First it works like I wished, that in betweens they use this board to do a little sketching. Second, I saw that he carefully chosen what magnetic...

Orange Ladybug

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The other day I found an orange ladybug at our porch. Cute little thing and completely new to us, since I can not recall that I ever saw one before. So we asked the internet and found out that it's name is Halyzia sedecimguttata and the favorite food is mildew....Lucky us, because...

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Horse Chestnut

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Their candle like blossoms are almost gone, but I still feel the joy when looking down a street full of horse chestnut. It is a foretaste of autumn when I will have to bend down every few step to pick up their beautiful fruits ;-) ...

Children's art: Black board

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Where we lived before, when the kids were little we used to have a big black board in the hallway for them to draw on. We prepared it ourself using magnetic color first and blackboard color on top of it. In this house, where we live now, there is not enough free wall to do such a large black board,...

Monday, June 1, 2015

Children's Art: Group painting on one large canvas

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I am tremendously proud of the little children painting group, which meets every Monday at our house.... Two weeks ago we did kind of experimental project. I put ONE large (200 x 90 cm) canvas on our table and provided them with all the different hues they mixed the week before in acrylic paint. At...
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