“Living in a box”-grade 1-3

This was an incredible project and enjoyed by both myself & my students!
Technique: recycled tins, pencil & fine liner

We usually work in big, loud & bright, so this was new experience for my students, working in miniature.

At first they were a little reluctant but once they started, they really they got into it with all their hearts. It was amazing to see the length of detail they got into & the quietness it gave them and the feeling of success to finish a little masterpiece! It really was so peaceful & gratifying!

They first drew the outlines in pencil & then in fine liner. Then they colored in their fine details with pencil colours(brightly & enjoyably)

Since the beginning of the year I have been collecting tins & finally some of the kids & members of the staff also helped me .I carefully washed & dried them .

Laminated the beautiful pictures & stuck them inside the boxes.

I also stuck a small loop of string on the back so that they can be hang up on the walls.

The amazing thing about this project was not only do they look absolutely beautiful, but also the level of success & enjoyment the kids got out of it. Because of its size the kids that don’t normally excel in art managed to succeed with greatness!

"החיים בקופסא" – כתות א', ג' - יצירה בטכניקה מעורבת- קופסאות שימורים ממוחזרים, עפרונות וטושים.

זה היה פרויקט מהנה ומאתגר גם עבורי וגם עבור התלמידים שלי. בדרך כלל הילדים רגילים לעבוד על פורמטים גדולים ורחבים, אך הפעם הייתה להם התנסות חווייתית חדשה- עבודה בגודל מיניאטורי. בהתחלה הילדים היו חשדנים, אך ברגע שהחלו לעבוד, נכנסו לתהליך וגילו את האפשרות לעבוד בקטן, הם נרתמו לכך בכל ליבם. הריכוז, השקט וכניסה לכל הפרטים העדינים ביותר, הסבלנות שנדרשה לכך ותחושת היכולת והמסוגלות להגיע לתוצר כל כך אסתטי- כל אלה הביאו ליצירות אמנות קטנטנות, מעשה ידיהם וגאווה גדולה לי ולהם. השלווה, לצד תוצרים כה יפים- כל אלה עושים את היצירות לכל כך מיוחדות.

תיאור התהליך- בהתחלה הילדים התבקשו לצייר בקווי מתאר, ואחר כך מילאו בפרטים ובצבעי עפרון. אני אוספת את קופסאות השימורים מתחילת השנה ובסיוע של צוות בית הספר הגענו למספר רב שלהם. את הציורים הקטנים ניילנתי והכנסתי בזהירות אל תוך הקופסאות הנקיות. כדי שיהיה קל להציגם על הקיר בתערוכה, הדבקתי חוט.

מה שמדהים בפרויקט הזה- זה לא רק יצירות האמנות היפות, אלא הערך של תחושת ההצלחה וההנאה הגדולה שליוותה את הילדים. הגודל המוקטן זימן ליצירה אפילו ילדים שבדרך כלל מתקשים לעסוק בחומרי האמנות.

Funky Fabric Furniture-something for the soul!

Sometimes its important to do something just for you!just for the total fun of it!Something that makes you sparkle inside and glow on the outside!
(I am busy packing boxes as we are moving & in the middle of all the chaos I found a corner to have some time out!)
I am loving every minute & can't wait to do more!
but for now its back to packing :)

Funky Fabric Furniture-by Claudia Fehr-Levin

Indian Elephants-Inspired by "More"

I work as a roaming Art Teacher for grades 1-3 in Ben Tzvi Primary School in Afula once a week.I work through a wonderful organization called Keren Karev.

I have 2 classes of each grade and 143 pupils all in all! And teach them ALL in 1 day!

It’s definitely quite a challenge, but ever so rewarding!!And I love it!!!!

I am also a Children’s Book Illustrator and wanted to share one of my stories with my students.

I chose “More” a fable set in India written by the wonderful & talented Enid Richemont from England. We published it as a digitalbook

I copied the book  all on a disc-on-key and showed them the pictures on the screen, translating the story into Hebrew for them. They sat mesmerized for a full 20 minutes!!!Wow!it was great!

I pointed out the bold & bright colours, the patterns, the decorative details of the artworks. They were well impressed that their art teacher had actually illustrated this book!

I chose to take one element out of the story & teach them how to draw it, it was the elephant.

We used pastels and watercolors, adding gold gouache & beads for decoration.

We used 2 lessons; some classes even took another lesson to continue decorating!

Thank you Enid for the wonderful opportunity of illustrating your story!and sharing it with my students!

בעקבות איורים שנעשו על ידי המורה קלאודיה-ספר " More"- סיפור הודי

הוצאנו מתוך הספר אובייקט אחד שהוא הפיל ההודי

בטכניקה של פנדה, צבעי מים על בריסטול בקישוט נצנצים וחרוזים 

Indian Elephants with my students at Ben Tzvi

Indian Elephants with my students at Ben Tzvi

Faux Stained Glass in a frame-Art with a Splash of English(Tal Menashe)

Teaching English in a fun & creative way …

I found this wonderful idea on Suzys Artsy CraftySitcom for faux (fake)stained glass and loved it! Thank you Suzy for your fantastic & inspiring ideas!!!

After reading our English story the girls & I used Artline pens to trace the designs that they chose.

We mixed the acrylic paints with white plastic glue and they started to paint (make sure they paint on the opp. side of the outlines).They also painted and decorated their frames with acrylics.
They absolutely loved painting with the thick shiny "new" paint!

To add an extra dimension we even stuck aluminum foil on the back of some of them; it really gives a fun, sparkly effect.

Just look at the wonderful results!

Faux Stained Glass with my Tal Menashe girls

Faux Stained Glass with my Tal Menashe girls

Paper Mache Bowls- Art with a Splash of English

I love working with Paper Mache! This time we used bowls for our shapes, covered with Vaseline .I like to use good old fashioned newspaper & flour.But next time I will try glad-wrap instead of Vaseline!
We used acrylics to decorate and I varnished afterwards to give a sheen & protect them.
I am delighted with these wonderful treasures!

Paper-Mache bowls with Tal Menashe

“I’m me! I’m Different! And proud” - Portraits

I work as a roaming Art Teacher for grades 1-3 in Ben Tzvi Primary School in Afula once a week.I work through a wonderful organization called Keren Karev.

I have 2 classes of each grade and 143 pupils all in all! And teach them ALL in 1 day!

It’s definitely quite a challenge, but ever so rewarding!!And I love it!!!!

Thanks to Patsy from Deep Space Sparkle I was able to tackle portraits! I bought Patsy’s amazing PDF “Fun with Portraits” it is fantastically laid out & very helpful! Thank you!!! As always soooo inspiring!

We took 2 lessons to complete our portraits .I bought some mirrors & showed the children how beautiful they are .They loved this!

We worked with pastels, watercolors & gouache using artlines for our outlines.

Just look at all these gorgeous, beautiful, amazing children!!!

Grade 2's looking at their amazing results

Wonderful, colourful and fun portraits with my Grade 2's

Self Portraits with my Grade 1's

Self Portraits with my Grade 2's

Self Portraits with my Grade 3's

Personalized Energy Stones

As a last project together with my ABC English classes I gave each child a stone that I had collected at the “Kinneret” (The Sea of Galilee).

I explained to them the wonderful power of stones and that they could keep it in their pockets. And hold it if they were sad or having a hard day and it would give them courage & power. One of the kids also said it would be a great reminder of the year we spent together!

I asked each kid to write the first letter of his name in English on the stone .And they could decorate them as they pleased.

It was a wonderful project and we had great fun doing it! And wow just look how great they turned out!!!

Personalized Energy Stones with my grade 2's