Mail Art + Pen Friends = Dear You Art Project
Evelyn Müürsepp and her artists have made beautiful paintings with the help of their handmade viewfinders. I love how they use their viewfinder on their newly created painting. Perhaps we can make a painting in a painting? Anything is possible!
I'm sure their friends in Berlin are going to be so happy when they receive these artworks!
The Tigers and I started our session by making a viewfinder with our hands and seeing what is around us. We saw the trees outside the window, we saw the view to the downstairs where the Dolphins and Lions are, we saw the hearts on the windows and all the beautiful artwork hanging from the ceiling! Now have a look at how our views turned into beautiful watercolor paintings : )
We our curious how our views are the same and different from The Mice in Vietnam!
With love,
Arlene & The Tigers from Espoo, Finland
Have a look at some pictures of String Stories from Berlin. Lusine said, "The kids had so much fun improvising with string and glue that they all wanted to make another sting story for the family to take home. It was very sweet :-)"
You are sweet! And your friends in Estonia are going to appreciate your stories!
I see snow, cars, sun and a whole lot of adventures in these string stories by the Tigers! The Tigers soon figured out how to use the string to add texture and volume to their colored pencil drawings. Each one tells so much about themselves. I'm sure their friends in Vietnam will love these pieces of art!
Hi,
We had a great time doing the February Dear You art project. We have been focusing on the solar system and talking about how we are connected to everything, so the project tied in perfectly with our curriculum! We have also been working on sharing and teamwork, so each piece was a collective effort.
Have a great day,
Michelle
The 5 years old at Moonstone Preschool in Philadelphia, PA, USA is making and exchanging artwork with Pre-Kindergarteners at The International School of Antwerp in Antwerp, Belgium.
The artists at Lasteaed Illikuku in Põlvamaa, Estonia have made their stories by collaging string for their friends at Kita Felix and Friends in Berlin, Germany.
It's story time!
Toti and The Mice wanted to mix colors and do some a4 christmas cards for the Tigers using Salt Painting. Learn more about this art technique here:
http://www.oneperfectdayblog.net/2012/04/27/kids-art-raised-salt-painting/
The Mice and The Tigers met up online to sing 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' together!
Once The Tigers mastered the art of making a pop up box everything became possible! Nachu was experimenting with writing her name in cursive. Jonatan made a pop up reindeer. Sreya said she wanted to give the sun to her friends in Vietnam. That's so thoughtful considering Finland could really use some right about now :). Ida went beyond the twofold card and made a pop up book!
The Tigers will mail these warm wishes to the Mice in Vietnam. Hyvää Joulua and Happy New Year!
Hi,
We had a great time with this project. We practiced the day before we made the cards and now we are all pop up pros! One boy told me he couldn't wait to teach his older brother how to do this! I will be sending them out tomorrow morning.
Have a great day and enjoy the holidays,
Michelle
First we were all surprised, interested, curious and sometimes even scared of the paintings we saw: M. C. Escher, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and other surrealist painters, which made us think a little bit and also realize that painting has no boundaries.
Then, we started painting to Jun Miyake's "Lillies of the Valley". The storm, No teacher, Windy day, The tree, Flowers, Birds of Vietnam or the galaxy are some of the paintings we created. Take a look and you will find much more.
All the best from Hanoi,
The Little Mice
The Little Mice are exchanging with the Tigers in Espoo, Finland. Check out what The Tigers did for their Musical Paintings here!
Kita Felix and Friends in Berlin, Germany have been busy (as you can see) making a sweet package for their friends in Estonia!
Lusine, the teacher at Kita Felix and Friends in Berlin said, "the kids had a lot of fun, many painted with music, letting the beat be the guiding light." I'm sure their friends in Lasteaed Illikuku in Põlvamaa, Estonia are super excited to receive their musical paintings!
For the November Musical Painting Michelle Mullally, Assistant Director at Moonstone Preschool said, "They got so into it. I love seeing how students respond to music while making art."
The pictures speak for themselves :)
Art is another form of self expression and today the Tigers taught me a lot about that! We started the session by looking at artists such as Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. These two great artists were very much inspired by music. We talked about the kinds of sounds and music we started to hear when we looked at their paintings.
Vasily Kandinsky (1866–1944). Composition 8 (Komposition 8), July 1923. Oil on canvas, 55 1/8 x 79 1/8 inches (140 x 201 cm). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Paul Klee, Castle and Sun
Paul Klee, Ancient Sound
Then we listened to some music and hopped along to it to see visually and physically how the rhythm is. We jumped when the tune was high and crept closer to the floor when it was low. After we felt comfortable with the music we shimmied to our drawing tables and started painting away to Schneider TM's song called "Frogtoise" and to Nightmares On Wax song, "Les Nuits". Can you hear the difference through the brushstrokes?
We can't wait to hear what songs our friends in Vietnam created to!
Greetings once again from our Finnish Vietnamese group, Tigers and Mice enjoyed last week to the fullest knowing that Halloween was around the corner and they had a terrifying candy bag full of their favorite sweets. Here in Hanoi, we decorated our bags with different shapes and used our imagination and some music to decorate the candy bags, they turned out scary and colorful at the same time!
Last Friday was our international show and tell circle, we shared candies, jellies, lollipops, marshmallows, and even pancakes and ice cream. We even had a girl that loved flowers so much that thought it would be nice to have them in her candy bag.
The surprise came when our dear Tiger friends showed us a small piece of black candy...
- What's that?? Chocolate? no wait chocolate is usually brown...
- Hahahaha, no its something we call liquorish.
- Is it black candy? Ewwwww!
Apparently some colors are not meant for candy if you ask our little mice! Black is definitely one of them... Hopefully they get to taste that Finnish delicatessen one day!
See you next month Dear you Community and have a nice autumn were ever you are!
Xin chao!
Toti Álvarez
