OBJECTIVES

 To organize freely the natural elements of a garden.
 To name the natural elements that make a composition.
 To mention tactile feelings and associate them with materials.
 To make a choice between already practised techniques.

SKILLS

 To create a 2-D or 3-D composition.
 To create a composition in situ

MATERIALS

 Natural things collected in the garden (chestnuts, grass, moss, leaves, twigs, stems, stones, earth, flowers).
 Leaves and flowers first flattened under a press

REFERENCES

 Nils -Udo
 Claudie Hunzinger
 Aline Rutily
 Miguel Egana : (Camouflage)

PROCEDURES

Get the children to observe the works of art and make links between the artists’ interventions :

- natural / non natural elements - installations in situ - geometric / non geometric shapes - shaded / contrasting colours

suggest the children should make an installation in the school’s garden. There they collect natural elements (chestnuts, leaves of various sizes and colours, grass, stones, twigs, fruit, moss…)

Make them observe the trunks of the trees in the garden. They name the various parts of the tree, their colours, their textures. Verbalisation : work on language using contraries (smooth / rough, soft / hard). Encourage them to carry on by inverting the colours of the leafy part of the tree and those of the trunk.

Intervene transform : ask the children to intervene and transform the tree trunks with various coloured materials : cloth, felt, fur, tissue paper, crepe paper, all these with the colours of autumn.

These materials are cut to pieces and pasted only in one spot, so that the wind can make them move.

Take photographs for everybody to remember this layout.

ASSESSMENT

Getting aware

 of the importance of shapes and colours in a realisation
 of the necessary selections and choices.

Blandine Tissier. Nursery School, Alsace . Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines) France