Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Art in the Afternoons

The children are so creative right now, coming up with amazing art projects all of the time with no direction or guidance from a teacher.

One child constructed several pop- up books, folding pieces of paper with hearts, houses, and flowers cut but left attached, so that they really do pop up when you unfold them. She also wrote simple captions and stories in Japanese. She enjoys giving them as gifts and teaching others in the class how to make them.

Another child had been making a collection of gorgeous colored pencil designs which resemble fractal imagery. He works with great intensity and attention to detail. He remarked that the colorful patterns "just come into my brain." His most recent work looks quite like a classic Fibonacci spiral.

A group of children playfully took to drawing cartoons of their teacher with markers. We were depicted as a pink and green horse with explosive bowel movements, a baby with chicken pox, and a ghost wearing bright red lipstick.



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