Week 6: We began a "Joseph's Coat" batik project. We talked about how in the scriptures we see that Joseph's coat was beautifully adorned. I could not find any information on exactly what that meant. But, I did discover that the Art of Batik seems to have originated in the Middle East. So we tried our hands at glue batiking. This gave us an opportunity to explore shapes and design. I asked them to remember that we have been talking about shapes and line in art and asked them to make a design on their fabric. Each of them came up with some beautiful designs! We also looked at a piece of artwork that depicted Joseph with his coat. It was very cheerful and full of shapes and line. So the children made their own copy of this piece.
Week 7: We reviewed Joseph's Coat; looking at two very different pieces of artwork depicting the same story. The children made great observations, comparing the two. Then the children painted over their shirts, using several colors of Acrylic paint.
Please try to have them bring their own sharpened pencils and maybe an old shirt to cover clothing when we do messy stuff. I still have cover-up shirts. But, not as many. Some kids just keep a pencil and smock or t-shirt in their bag. That seems like a good plan, unless it gets wet. Then we would air dry. Which brings me to another request: We have had some big challenges drying artwork. We had to take over a whole room for drying these past two weeks. Does anyone have any great ideas for a drying rack for artwork?
Manchester, NH based fine arts program for homeschool students
