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Drawing from the approaches of contemporary artists, to install short-lived gardens in a definite place, using elements from its environment.
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