April 5, 2008 - Art Class
This morning I took Gianna to preview an art class for 18 mos. to 3 year olds in Aina Haina called My First Art Class (http://www.geocities.com/myfirstartclass/index.html). When we arrived, our teacher, Auntie Renee, welcomed us and got us situated. She gave Gigi an apron to wear, and she told us that today's theme was pirates.
Gigi sat down at the table where you can make a pirate flag. There were pre-made flags and silver and gold paint for decorating the flag.
This was Gigi's first experience painting. She liked mashing the brush onto the paper. She needs to work on her brush stroke techniques.
The next table was set up to make treasure plates. Gigi LOVED this table! She got to slather the paper plate with glue...a first experience, and then decorate it with colored pasta wheels and buttons. There was also gold glitter available, and Gigi could get enough of it. I think she got more glitter on her clothes than on the artwork.
Here's Gianna back at the glitter and pasta table. She didn't like decorating her crown with the items on that table, so she took her crown to be pasta-ed and glittered.
I had turned my back for just a second to place her artwork to dry on the side, while Gigi sat down at the play dough table. BAD IDEA! She ate some of the glittered dough. You can see a bit of glitter on her lips. She hated the taste (and the texture of the glitter in her mouth)! She refused to stay at the dough table and play with it. The bad taste put her off.
She headed back to the glitter and pasta table, so I gave Gigi her flag to decorate.
After glittering up her flag, we headed to another table to make treasure maps. Gigi chose to use markers...another first, rather than crayons to draw her map. She really liked playing with the marker caps. She enjoyed trying to put the caps back on the pen by herself.
There were also stickers on the table. You could use a star to mark where your treasure was on your map. Gigi went star-crazy. Her map shows treasure stashed all over the place!
Class ends with some songs and some dancing, but Gigi was upset when we had to stop the artwork. She began to cry! :( Luckily after a couple of songs, she regained her composure. Hopefully, she'll get used to the structure of the class in the future. I signed us up, because it is so nice to have all of these very cool and very messy art supplies to play with, yet not have to worry about cleaning up. We just come in and play, then leave with Gianna's creations. Too cool! There's no prep work of messy clean up for me. :) Hurray!
Gigi sat down at the table where you can make a pirate flag. There were pre-made flags and silver and gold paint for decorating the flag.
This was Gigi's first experience painting. She liked mashing the brush onto the paper. She needs to work on her brush stroke techniques.
The next table was set up to make treasure plates. Gigi LOVED this table! She got to slather the paper plate with glue...a first experience, and then decorate it with colored pasta wheels and buttons. There was also gold glitter available, and Gigi could get enough of it. I think she got more glitter on her clothes than on the artwork.
Here's Gianna back at the glitter and pasta table. She didn't like decorating her crown with the items on that table, so she took her crown to be pasta-ed and glittered.
I had turned my back for just a second to place her artwork to dry on the side, while Gigi sat down at the play dough table. BAD IDEA! She ate some of the glittered dough. You can see a bit of glitter on her lips. She hated the taste (and the texture of the glitter in her mouth)! She refused to stay at the dough table and play with it. The bad taste put her off.
She headed back to the glitter and pasta table, so I gave Gigi her flag to decorate.
After glittering up her flag, we headed to another table to make treasure maps. Gigi chose to use markers...another first, rather than crayons to draw her map. She really liked playing with the marker caps. She enjoyed trying to put the caps back on the pen by herself.
There were also stickers on the table. You could use a star to mark where your treasure was on your map. Gigi went star-crazy. Her map shows treasure stashed all over the place!
Class ends with some songs and some dancing, but Gigi was upset when we had to stop the artwork. She began to cry! :( Luckily after a couple of songs, she regained her composure. Hopefully, she'll get used to the structure of the class in the future. I signed us up, because it is so nice to have all of these very cool and very messy art supplies to play with, yet not have to worry about cleaning up. We just come in and play, then leave with Gianna's creations. Too cool! There's no prep work of messy clean up for me. :) Hurray!
posted by mama at 9:48 PM
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