Jan Cox is not only a talented writer, but she’s also a talented artist and hosts workshops to spark creativity in children.
“It’s been a crazy week. I am not a spring chicken any longer and I volunteered to teach 5 classes of art in the schools this past week. The children were 4 to 6 years of age.
I had a blast.
I loved watching the kids’ enthusiasm and how they really got right into the painting.
Sometimes too much. lol 🙂 But we only had 2 spills in 5 classes — so that’s not too bad.
In most classes, we had 25–28 children. The grade eights were called in to help and did a wonderful job. They also enjoyed making their own backgrounds.”
We did sponge painting
The children listened very well to the instructions.
For artists as well as gardeners we have to have PATIENCE.
Especially with watercolour, we need to wait for it to dry unless we want the colours to bleed into other colours.
The children also listened to a story by Laurence Anholt called “The Magical Garden of Claude Monet”.
Read more of Jan’s blog and instructions for sponge painting techniques ...
And check out Jan’s earlier blog Created to be Creative.
Til next time, God Bless.
