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To elaborate a costume on the theme of the kitchen garden in order to celebrate Carnival
OBJECTIVES
To describe, compare and classify the elementary perceptions : tasting and smelling
To enrich the range of techniques
SKILLS
To classify elements according to criteria known by the children.
To choose an efficient fastening system.
To describe somebody’s costume, to justify one’s opinion.
MATERIALS
Green- and red-coloured vegetables in a basket
Recipe books
A knife, a pan, water, salt, an electric hotplate
A 50 x 70 cm paper sheet and a big felt-tip pen
Elements of the gardener’s costume : boots, gloves, a wire-netting overall with vegetables hanging from it, a hat made of cabbage leaves, a basket
An overall cut out of green plastic wire-netting for each child
Written referents : “the green soup" and “the red soup" and the corresponding removable word-labels, glue tubes
Various fastening systems : adhesive tape, glue, staples, gardening plastic wire, nylon thread, brass wire, freezing bag ties, paper clips, clothes pegs…
Rhodoid strips at least as long as the cranial perimeter of the children
REFERENCES
Works by
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Marie-Thérèse Herbin
Sandrine Morsillo….
PROCEDURES
Before the sequence : Make a soup :
Bring various vegetables in a basket. Make the children identify and name them. The children’s suggestion : let’s make a soup…
Get them to put forward hypotheses concerning the soup’s recipe orally. Check them by researching in books. Make the children read each recipe aloud.
Choose the vegetables for the soup. Classification of the vegetables according to their colour.
Make two soups : « the green soup » and « the red soup ».
Dictate the recipe to them.
Prepare the soup with the children, cook it and taste it.
1) Make costumes on the theme of the kitchen garden
Work out the project of making costumes
Arrive dressed up as a gardener. Prompt the children to identify and name the various parts of the gardener’s costume : the overall, the hat, the boots, the gloves, the tools, the basket.
To celebrate Carnival, work out the project of making the « green » and « red vegetables gardener ».
2) Observe artists’ works ;
The works by Marie-Thérèse Herbin, elaborated from large cabbage leaves casting ;Guiseppe Arcimboldo’s painting, built like a plant collage.
Use these works in order to make the costumes
Elaborated like collages or plant assembling
Including a –real or paper-made - cabbage leaf.
Prompt the children to define the various phases of the project :
To go to the market and buy the necessary vegetables
To sort out and hang the vegetables on the wire-netting support. To experiment various fastening systems and to choose the most efficient. - To make clothes : a hat, clothes made with red or green cabbage leaves, accessories on the theme of the kitchen garden.
FOLLOW-ON-ACTIVITIES
To enrich the children’s culture by getting them to discover other artists’ works’ copies on the theme of the kitchen garden : From the observation of the « Pages de cahier » (“Copybook Pages") written and painted by Sandrine Morsillo, make a collection of illustrated texts, recipes, poems, on the theme of the kitchen garden ;
To make plastic productions including vegetables in other forms ( 3-D, drawn, painted, engraved, photographed… )
ASSESSMENT
Elements that are to be taken into account :
The richness of the technical range
The project’s relevance, the logic of its various phases as formulated by the children.
Blandine Tissier Alsace Nursery School Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines ) France