Mail Art + Pen Friends = Dear You Art Project
My students used magnifying glasses to find interesting patterns on their hands and arms. We all made heart shape finger prints to see the different line patterns on our thumbs. Then I let them lose to create a mask with patterns they found on their body.
Kathleen Finan
The 2nd graders at Amy Parks Heath Elementary School in Heath, Texas are making and sharing with the 1st and 2nd graders at Grunnskóli Fjallabyggðar in Siglufjörður, Iceland.
The January Project was fun. In Estonia we have the days "Kadripäev" and "Mardipäeav" where we make masks. The children wanted to immediately start to draw. They were looking for patterns on their skin and clothes. Fortunately, the children were wearing very colorful
clothing and the masks are completed soon. It was a great idea.
Aili Vassil
The 8 year old artists from Mooste Põhikool in Mooste, Estonia are making and exchanging art with the 8 years from Evangelischen Volksschule am Karlsplatz in Vienna, Austria.
Hallo,
At the beginning children made a variety of exercises. For example, how can a pencil dot and line can make art. Then using those skills, we drew nature we would we want to see by looking out the window in Mooste.
Aili Vassil
The 8 year old artists from Mooste Põhikool in Mooste, Estonia are making and exchanging art with the 8 years from Evangelischen Volksschule am Karlsplatz in Vienna, Austria.
Hello!
In Vienna, we had autumn when we were doing the pictures. Trees have beautiful colours, apples are falling down, it is getting cold. So the kids made pictures from our season outside. They had a lot of good and funny ideas to show this! :) You will see it in the pictures!
Hope you are all fine!
Best wishes,
Simone
The 7-8 year old artists from Evangelischen Volksschule am Karlsplatz in Vienna, Austria are making and exchanging art with the 8 years from Mooste Põhikool in Mooste, Estonia.
Dear Arlene!
Our post is on the way to Estland!
It was really funny to see what children are producing with the new theme.
There are different places where they feel good. Some of them love to be in nature or with animals, some of them only love to be at home.
But have a look and you will see nice and funny places to be!! :)
Best wishes from Vienna!
Simone Zobl
Simone Zobl and her group of second graders from Evangelischen Volksschule am Karlsplatz in Vienna, Austria are making and sharing art with Aili Vassil and her group of second graders from Mooste Põhikool in Mooste, Estonia.
Our kids liked the October project immediately. Everyone had fun and the ideas came very quickly. It was interesting to create a world of Pop-up for our friend!
Aili Vassil
Aili Vassil and her group of second graders from Mooste Põhikool in Mooste, Estonia are making and sharing art with the second graders from Evangelischen Volksschule am Karlsplatz in Vienna, Austria.
The children had lot of fun with creating a good friend and they made really funny pictures!
A good friend should be lovely and funny. They want to do crazy things with a best friend. And it is very important to play with each other. As you can see on the pictures, friends also have animals.
Hope, you are fine and wish you the best,
Simone Zobl and her group of super creative 2nd graders
The 7-8 year old artists from Evangelischen Volksschule am Karlsplatz in Vienna, Austria are making and exchanging art with the 8 years from Mooste Põhikool in Mooste, Estonia!
In these wonderful comics by the 2nd graders at Arivu School I see a world of surprises, witty humor and friendship! The art of visual storytelling shows so much about the creative artists in Mysore, India. I am sure they loved reading the comics from their friends in Espoo, Finland and I KNOW that the Monkeys at Your School can't wait to receive these comics!
Thank you Samanvitha Rao for being such an inspiring and great Dear You Workshop Leader!
Dear Monkeys!
It was a very sunny and hot day in India today. The Arivu kids are almost ready to start their summer holiday.
We have given your string drawings to their teacher and they will do an exhibition before giving the artworks to your friends. They all are waiting to get the drawings and know you all!
The houses/huts painted this time are the Arivu school buildings that your friends chose to see through their viewfinders. It is so warm here that they can study with the windows open and often outside in the huts.
Uncle Subbu's car, which was parked outside, was another popular subject today, especially among the boys!
The hot sun, flowers, plants and even butterflies were also found today through the viewfinders.
Greetings from your Indian friends!
Kathleen Finan, the art teacher at Amy Parks Heath Elementary School in Heath, Texas has been making Artist Trading Cards (ATC) with her artists. They have just sent these to their Dear You friends in Nottingham, UK!
Kathleen wrote, "The students wrote holiday greetings on the back of these ATC scratchboards. I bought these glitter scratchboards for the holidays, sometimes I make them with the kids. The candy bags had 3 ATCs in them telling their favorite holidays when candy is given."
What a treat! Not only did the artists make Candy Bags for the October project, but also ATCs!
Go ahead and try this out with your artists :)
Kathleen Finan and her 2nd graders at Amy Parks Heath Elementary School in Heath, Texas are ready to snail mail their first exchange of Dear You artworks to their new friends at Sneinton St Stephen's C of E Primary School in Nottingham, UK.
Their Self Portrait Puppets are full of personality!
