Insectos a la Eric Carle

What a fun class we had, que diversion! We painted Eric Carle style, using plastic combs to make texture in the paintings. We played outside while our pinturas dried in the hot hot sol, and then we cut them up to make insects....

Our next clase will be Saturday June 6, ojala nos veamos alli!

De colores....

"De colores se visten el campo en la primavera..."

Because our little artistas are Spanish language learners for the most part, this class, held on April 18, was dedicated to practicing los colores through the art of collage.

And we played some juegos of course, starting the clase with Loteria, and ending with one called Pescadores y peces.

Stay tuned for the date of our next class, probably the second Saturday in May.....

Kukulcan, Dios del viento

Que viento! I chose a windy day to describe our last class which was all about.....el Dios del viento, the Mayan God of wind, Kukulcan (Quetzalcoatl for the Aztecs)...

We started the class playing Memorama, the memory game, a version of which I brought back from my family's recent rip to Mexico, full of drawings of animals made by ninos mexicanos.

We used egg cartons and paint and construction paper and feathers to create this plumed serpent.

Stay tuned for our next class date, which will fall on either April 11 or 18, the beginning or end of spring break. And don't forget that mi esposo y yo do a bilingual story hour the second Tuesday of every month at the SLO Library at 5:15 de la tarde.

Hasta la proxima!

Alebrijes

Another great class as we learned about the Mexican legend of the alebrijes. These are fantasical creatures which appeared to a sick man in his suenos, his dreams. They can be dolphins with saber tooth tiger teeth, like one child created, and they are always brightly painted...

Our next class will be Saturday March 14. Nos vemos alli para mas creaciones fantasticas!

Piramides en la Selva!

The Maya people have inhabited southern Mexico and Guatemala for many hundreds of years. Mayan ancestros created pyramids and cities in the jungles of the south...Jungles full of Mayan kings and artesans, jaguars, monkeys and medicinal plants...

Our class on January 17 was muy divertido, a lot of fun! First we practiced the colores in Espanol, and learned how to mix verde and cafe, with the goal of creating plant life for our jungle scene. Then we painted the backgrounds for our selvas.

Y ya es hora de jugar! We played a couple of games outside, running to get our energy out, and then back inside to create our pyramids out of cardboard and stones.

Our all too quick taller ended with a song familiar to all, "la arana pequenita...". The itsy bitsy spider....Hasta la proxima clase!