Hand Print Rainbow Banners

Crafting our hand print rainbow banners was great fun!

Once our handprints were dry, we were ready to cut them out.

Parents helped by drawing a line around each handprint.

Here's volunteer Leonie asking the kids, "Which color ribbon do you want?" The kids had to answer, "I want red, please." Or yellow or blue!

Malina knows all her colors in English already!

Madita knows just where she's going to hang up her banner!

Leonie gets to hang Torben's handprint rainbow banner up in the workshop!

Chameleons & Rainbows

We started off the August-October round of the Children's Art Workshop with color! 

After singing our favorite songs, like the Energy Song and the Friendship Song, we read  Leo Lionni's "A Color of His Own", the story of a chameleon looking for his true self. On his journey of self discovery the chameleon changes color a lot - and the kids helped by shouting out which color the chameleon had changed on each page. Then we went to the creative table to create art that would help us remember the colors of the rainbow in English.

This was a two part project. The first week was messy fun mixing the colors of the rainbow and making hand prints of each. Of course, we had fun remembering that "red and yellow make orange" and that "blue and red make purple". For musical accompaniment we enjoyed Claude Bolling's Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano.

Katja - Yannik's mama - is inspired!


Children's Art Workshop Numer One Helper Leonie likes to make Magic Bubbles for the kids!

We carefully put our beautiful hand prints on the drying rack to dry and then enjoyed Magic Bubbles to a new wonderful bubble song - Pure Imagination by Lori Carsillo is the most beautiful interpretation of the classic by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newly! (If you are interested in some beautiful sleepy-time music for children, please support Lori's amazing work and purchase her wonderful Lullabies for Little Dreamers.)

We finished up with a new song, Tall & Small, Count and Move, and our new goodbye song about cars and trains and boats and planes. Our stamp of the day was a train: 

"What is it?"

"It's a train!"

"What color is it?"

"It's blue!"

"Is it a red train?"

"No, it isn't. It's a blue train!"