Magical Thinking!

http://illusion.scene360.com/art/8872/characters-and-objects-come-to-life-on-city-streets/

These pictures are done with chalk and paint on the sides of streets. It's amazing what little people can do to make something look like it's coming to life. In each of these paintings shows a different cartoon character. One of the paintings shows a crossing walk turned into a watch. These different paintings illustrate what creativity is. I like how the images look so realistic but still have a cartoon twist to them. I love how these paintings can show depth to the cartoon even though they are painted on a sidewalk. These illustrations can tell that the painter who created these is very artistic and loves to created unrealistic representations of things. This is truly art in it's finest form.

If I was to find these paintings on the street, I would love to bring children to come and see what they thought about them. I would ask them what they think they are and why someone would paint these on the street. If there was a safe area where we could get children to paint on the sidewalks, I would make it happen! 'Magic' is a great word for children to learn and to think about what it really means. I would ask the children what they think magic means and how we can draw magic onto the sidewalks. I would ask them if these paintings that they saw was magic and if so, why?

CHEESE! - What can we do?

CHEESE!!!

- Orange Cheese, Cheese cake, Grilled cheese, Mac and cheese, Cottage cheese, Feta cheese, Cream cheese, Cheese whiz, Cheese bread, Cheese pizza, Cheese lasagna, Goat cheese, Havarti cheese, Blue cheese, Guda cheese, Bree cheese



All these different types of cheese/cheese forms make me want to eat cheese soooo badly! Some of these cheese's have different textures completely, and some are quite similar. Some of the cheese's I have listed are different colours, like orange, white, and even blue. Some cheese can be melted to make a girlled cheese or cheese bread for example, and some is cooked into a cake like cheese cake. Here is my sketch of three items of different forms of cheese. :)

If I was an early childhood educator, I would have a full week of talking about different kinds of foods. I would have a different type of food that we as a class would talk about each day and what we can do with that food. For example, if it was cheese, I would ask the children about the texture of the cheese, the colour, who eats cheese?, does it have a smell?, what can we do with cheese other than eat it?, can we make some type of other food that involves cheese?, and where does it come from? Asking different questions about cheese could help explore different activities with that particular food. I would get children to paint what they think about cheese, and maybe what their favourite type of cheese is. Continuing onto the next day, we would talk about a different type of food.



Scrapbooking with Scissors!

"Scrapbooking with Scissors"

An art activity that I would choose for children would be a scrapbooking activity. I love to scrapbook when I have free time on my hands. I have created tons of scrapbooks from past events such as trips, my first year at university, and of my best friends. I think that it's a great way to remember special times that you had with friends and family and to show how creative one can get. I think a scrapbooking activity that I would get older children (that can cut and paste and come up with creative ideas) to do would be to have them do a collage of something that they love. For example, children could collect items that remind them of their family, or even things that they collect such as pictures of birthday cakes. Putting their creative ideas onto a huge piece of paper gives them opportunity to expand their minds and come up with adventurous collages. I think that this will teach children about important things in their life and how special they really are to a person.

Scrapbooking not only shows how creative someone can be but also lets people know that we must cherish each moment in our life and remember all that we can. I think children will want to look back at a scrapbooking activity like this one and remember what they thought was important to them at the time and reflect on their art.