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

Art with a splash of English –Paper Mache Bowls

(This project was a double lesson with grade 1’s)

As a kid I loved Paper Mache so I decided that we would make bowls together.

Teaching English in a fun & creative way I decided today we read out the recipe in English. Once we had followed the instructions we had a lovely pasty, sloshy mush to work with. We tore bits of newspaper and layered our balloons or bowls (don’t forget to line them with a generous helping of Vaseline-so that it doesn’t stick) until we reached a decent thickness. The kids loved the therapeutic feeling of massaging the balloon!!!

The next week they were delighted to see the results! And were quick to start painting.

Being a Children’s Book Illustrator myself I like to incorporate stories & books wherever I can! While painting I read them the wonderful story “Too Much Talk” a West African tale which was thoroughly enjoyed!!

Their bowls were a great success! I’m not sure whether I preferred using the balloons or the small bowls!? The results are quite different! I especially liked the bowl that wasn’t cut around the edges!!

Just look at all the colour! Magnificent!!!

wow!

Just look at those colours!