Being the last of the three December art classes, I wanted to continue the Christmas feel, but throw in something a bit new. We did cards, snowmen, snowflakes and some watercolor, but for this project I combined the ever popular "stained glass" theme with some architecture. Voila...Christmas houses and villages.
I wanted to these to stand up in a window, so I had the kids fold a piece or two of brown paper into thirds or fourths-whichever worked best. Accordian fold is the best. This resulted in vertical sections of paper that they could draw some whimsical buildings. I had them cut out the roof and window shapes. Then they could glue some colored tissue paper behind the holes for colorful windows.
I love the "scool" and the petstore. This was a Kindergartener, with maybe some help from an older writer?
I did try to emphasize the various types of roof shapes and show them photos of Amsterdam row houses and San Francisco vistorians.
These can really turn out well. For a more gingerbread look, you could have them do all the detail drawing with white paint, but the black markers look fine too. I used construction paper which is a bit thin and light. If I could get any supplies, I might try a stiffer paper stock, but not too thick for cutting purposes.
Funny thing, was that the younger kids had no trouble at all with this relatively complex concept of drawing and then cutting. They had wilder imaginations and I think fewer inhabitions. But they did have trouble with teh concept of gluing the tissue paper on the back of the houses ;-)
Merry Christmas to all and to all an artistic night!!
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