The girls started off with making prints to cut up and glue onto the (eventual) drawing as a collage. I really believe that its so important to give kids good art materials. (You can't practise making a wedding dress from calico!) We used oil based ink which is water-washable and Chinese Rice Paper. The girls took impressions from embossed (velvet flocked - oh my!) paper and corrugated card etc. They worked with green patterns for grass and browns for walls. They loved rolling with the … [Read more...]