Art with a splash of English- Trees for Tu BiShvat (Tal Menashe)

Something fun for my littlies!(Preschoolers & grade 1’s)

 Being close to "Tu BiShvat" the Jewish Holiday celebrating the birthday of the trees I thought it appropriate to do something fun with trees. After seeing how successfully the kids at school had drawn their hands I thought it would be a great start for the tree.

After reading our English story together and having our normal discussions & giggles we all sat around our table ready to start.

I gave then each a brown recycled page of paper & they drew their hands, cut them out & stuck them on beautifully radiant blue paper!

They have finally caught on to collaging & love it! They also worked with markers and stickers.

I think it was a greatly successful project! So colourful & fun!

Trees for Tu BiShvat- Studio in Tal Menashe

Lesson :7 -13/11/13 -Helping Hands

This is the year I officially started teaching art lessons in the public schools through a program called Keren Karev.
I teach grades 1-3 at Ben Tzvi in Afula once a week.
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!!!!

Inspired by a posts that I found in Pinterest I decided to make a poster for the walls using the children’s hands.
My school (Ben Tzvi) is very much concentrating on the motto of reaching high goals & developing the individual to his /her full and amazing potential so I thought it would be most appropriate! I thought it would be something great to do with the grade 1’s & 2’s.
 We used permanent markers for the outlines. Most of the kids managed to “trace “their own hands but it was actually quite a challenge for them, so I walked around helping them. They then decorated & coloured in the hands with colour markers in any colourful way that they chose.
I then cut out each and every hand and stuck them down (which was a surprisingly long process) but the results were astounding!

Filling in the details & patterning

"With a open heart and guiding hands a child can reach great heights!"