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To make a book compiling all the individual works of the children of one class, on the theme of Charles Trenet’s song : “The Extraordinary Garden".
OBJECTIVES
To discover how to illustrate
To work with a plastic artist : Bruno Mallart
To enrich a catalogue of techniques
SKILLS
To choose words to be articulated with pictures
To make the best of Bruno Mallart’s devices as observed in his works.
To explore techniques associating painting and photography.
To organise productions into a collective book
MATERIALS
passe-partout cardboard (planks of the same size)
White drawing paper (50 x 65 cm)
Vinyl glue, pigments, charcoal crayons, pencils
Charcoal crayons, pastels, lead pencils
Cut-out elements : silhouettes, plants, animals, sentences from the text to illustrate
REFERENCES
Charles Trenet’s “Extraordinary garden"
Bruno Mallart’s works
PROCEDURES
Before the sequence :
Ask the children to collect documents on the theme of gardens : books, pictures, magazines, copies of artists’ works, collections of natural elements.
Ask them to make up individual projects based on flowers, animals, in relation with the words from the song.
Prepare paint by mixing vinyl glue and pigments.
The children
prepare supports : drawing paper mounted on the passe-partout sheets
paint all the backgrounds the same thinned down ochre
put identical marks on each page, in order to bind the pictures together
to draw the outlines of the trees and of the garden on the background
to paint the plants and garden : in the painted surface, insert cut-out photographs and strips of text
cut a piece of the vegetable, explore its taste, smell and texture ; select a detail with the viewfinder, then draw it as seen above
FOLLOW-ON-ACTIVITIES
To make a book : make holes in the same place of every “page" and bind them with raffia.
With the pictures, make miniature gardens and people them with figures made out of Plasticine.
ASSESSEMENT
It will measure the children’s ability to
list words and sentences chosen to illustrate a text
make use of the techniques they have experimented
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