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

Martine Duveau École maternelle de l’Orangerie Bonnelles Yvelines France