Fun with Art!

I was at a workshop on incorporating art and craft into storytelling over the weekend. This will be a picture post on the workshop.

Art with children is about having a good number of mateirals.

Nik naks, ding dangs, ging gangs (things of little value) are great to keep.

A jar of colourful stuff.

Bottle caps.

Tissue rolls.  

Glue, scissors, paper and all those stuff.

Collect unwanted cardboard.

Pretty colours.

Colours in paints and food colouring.

Paint in squeeze bottles and straws. (I see chopsticks too)

The sister of batik printing. Playing with colours. Use food colouring and kitchen tissue (or tougher/thicker tissue). Fold the tissue paper in any way you like; dip them in the plate of food colouring. See the colours soak into the paper; continue the process and you get instant batik. Children will enjoy the process.

As a student, I picked up an unwanted box in school one day and turned it into my art box. The box is about 5 or 6 years old now. Open it up and it might look like I have a whole lot of junk in it. But I see those junk as useful. One takeaway from this workshop is to have a good supply of everyday items that are seen as worthless. These items are best friends to children when they engage in art and craft activities and they leave less impact on the pocket too. The trainer of the workshop has an art studio of her own catering to children and her art studio is filled with some of the items in the pictures above. I think the items you see in the pictures constitutes to about 10% of her art studio.  

Remember, the less valuable items are the best resource!

(Except paints, glue, scissors and those sorts of course)  

Have fun :)