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

Art with a splash of English- Painting on Canvasses (Tal Menashe)

Is there more fun than painting on a canvas?

All that I stipulated was that they had to come up with 2 different pictures, to make a series. The subject matter was freedom of choice, but we did try to think of things that would work well together & things that were big enough to fill a canvas.

My girls are so very talented & I was well impressed!

We used acrylics & took 2 lessons to complete our master-pieces!

Ayelet painting her sunset

Another beautiful sun being painted by Myann

Masks for Purim

Art with a splash of English- Masks for Purim
After reading our English story we went straight to making masks for Purim
We used cardboard, pastels & glitter
What a lot of fun!

What a lot of fun!With Cloudscape Studios

Flower Mural

As a project to get to know my new group of girls from grade 5 & 6 I decided it would be fun and great team building to do a mural together. Thanks to my wonderful father-in-law I have access to great big pieces of paper!

We looked at both photos and pictures of flowers .I told them we would paint a field together! The idea was to fill the entire paper. They drew the outlines, some preferred to start painting without pencil.

Each girl found a space and got started .It took longer for some to feel confident and comfortable but at the end of the class they were all into it! We used a mix of tempera and gouache paints.

For the first lesson we painted the flowers, leaves, butterflies and even some ants & then the following week we painted the background. The background really brought the girls together as a group because they were all doing the same thing and they were feeling more confident.

I suggested they outline everything in black but the girls decided as a group against it.

Looking at the photos I think they made a great choice! It is delicate and beautiful just like my group of girls!

It now adorns the wall in our studio and everybody admires it!! I am so proud of my girls!!

It was a great way to start the year !!!

Starting to take shape

Each girl finding her space

Working together with lovely ideas and beautiful colours!

Adding some grass

Connecting the flowers with stalks

Working so nicely together

Background almost finished 

Wow!



Simply magnificent !!!Well done girls!!!