Kandinsky butterflies in origami.

The project of the concentric circles is known by all art teachers by now.  It's a grateful project because most children, even the ones with less talent, get great results with it.

Original of Wassilly Kandinsky

I wanted the children do do something more with the design.  So I let them fold a square piece of paper so they got 16 little squares they could fill with markers in Kandinsky's style.

When finished they could fold a butterfly. 
There are great instruction video's on youtube for various origami butterflies.

The children loved the results.

Door Iris eerste jaar secundair.

Monster eggs

Easter is coming - our blog participant Valerie Deprez let her students design monster eggs with various materials!  I love the results and let's face it!  It's a bit different than the ones the easter bunny will drop in a few weeks ;-)

Mondrian Animals

By Hanne - 2DECO

Every year we have one theme week.  This year that week has started today and the theme is 'colors'.  We thought it would be nice to use Mondrian because he use the primary colors. 

Mondrian is a Dutch painter who made an evolution from realistic to totally abstract painting.  He used the primary colors (yellow, red, blue) with white shapes and black lines. 

The kids drew a cartoon style animal and divided this drawing in rectangles.  They used a fineliner to go over the lines and chose some of the shapes to color with primary colors.



I got the idea from an English article I found on Pinterest
Link magazine: Animals with a Mondrian twist

By Jessy 2DECO

By Iris 1ste jaar secundair.

Rays of sunshine

Magalie 2DECO

 Winter is still here - today it snowed again.  But in school we are looking forward to spring and summer.

The children painted in acrylic paint a yellow/orange sun and a blue sky.  After drying the glued pieces of fabric that represented the rays on the canvas.

When dry they stenciled the chosen words, they had cut out of paper on their painting. 

I saw this project on pinterest, so it is not mine - forgot to actually pin it - so don't know who to give credit....

Aquilla 2DECO

Heart-shaped balloons in ink and watercolor

By Chelsey - grade 7

Our students made heart-shaped ballons last week.  It was the first time ever they had to use ink.  Filling the shapes with patterns was fun and using watercolor to ad some happiness made it a lovely project.


Next time we'll do this I'll let them paint first and then go over the shapes with ink - here we did it the other way around and I really think using the water color first would make it even better.

There is a little trick to draw good hearts and because there was a great clear picture on the Bee and Buzz blog.I didn't make one myself.

Fold - draw half a heart and cut out.

By Jennifer - grade 7

By Valerie - grade 7

Under water(color) letter art

A fun and creative way to teach the kids how to draw letters in perspective is this project of teacher Valerie Deprez. 
Letters of the kids names were put in an under water scene and paited with water color.

A Calender in black-white and red

I'm baaaaaaaaaack - maternity leave can be great!  But now it's time to get going with my students again!
My baby is 6 months now and I'm totally ready to get creative with kids again !!!


I found some lovely projects my sub Annemie Sevens did while I was gone.  Nice enough to share! ;-)
Even though I was silent at this blog for a while - comments kept coming so I think some people found the site anyway! Hurray!


This nice calender was made by the 8th graders!  The class has 11 students, so almost a year in months.
Every child had to design one month of the calender.  The kids chose some specific themes for the different months.  February has heart - May birds and december pine trees.  The dates couldn't just be written on a line, the had to be originals shapes too.  It's not my project, so I don't know the details, but I thought it was a nice enough idea to share anyway!
The results were awesome!