A bunch of fresh tulips

A bunch of fresh tulips, glass jars of mixed paint, and brushes inspired beautiful still-life paintings.  The children captured the details of the flowers, noticing the different shades of orange and the small amount of yellow at the base of the petals. They shared and negotiated the paints, which were on a lazy susan. Fresh flowers serve as a perfect provocation in our studio.
  

Drawing What We See

Today the Haifa children came into the classroom to see some more flowers out on the table with different tools to draw them with! Today we put out watercolor pencils, which are amazing drawing instruments that can be used in a bunch of different ways. Today we decided to use them by first dipping our pencils in water and then drawing on watercolor paper.
We continued to use some flowers from earlier in the week, but we also added new ones to make today's paintings/drawings unique!
-Alison and Sauci

Another way to represent Daffodils

 After representing the daffodils with watercolor paints, we put out strips of bleed tissue paper. The children tore pieces of tissue paper to form the shapes of the flowers. Next, they wet the tissue paper and watched as the color bled onto their white background. They then peeled up the tissue paper to reveal their creation. It is so exciting to to see the many ways children can represent their observations.

Inspired by Daffodils

A fresh bouquet of Daffodils, water color paints, and cut water color paper was an inspiring provocation last week. Almost all of the children visited the science table where the daffodils were placed. Each child used the water color paints to represent the flowers on their blank canvases, each with their own variation. Come look at the wall of the children's paintings in the Kohavim classroom! We plan to continue bringing in fresh flowers as inspiration. Over the next few weeks, if you and your child are gardening or come across some striking flowers at the market, please bring them in to share with us! 

Flower Power!!

Something was new in the Haifa class room today...sunflowers!! We thought it would be fun to focus the artwork at the easel by having the students paint what they see. Silly me, I told the students to paint the flowers. Drew was the first one hit with the artistic bug, so Sauci helped him put his smock on, and let him do his thing. She walked over about five minutes later to find that there was no painting on the easel paper. Turns out, he did exactly what I said! He painted the flowers!



Alli and Eli worked together in their painting of the flowers on the paper. Eli figured out how to paint the flowers first, and then helped Alli. "First you paint the stem. Then you paint the sun!" Such great cooperation among friends!!

-Alison and Sauci