I was really inspired when I saw (the other :) Montessori Mama post a few weeks ago about artist baskets. Her blog is wonderful & the she's the *real* M mama - I only discovered her site after I had already named my blog! Anyhow, when I came across this blog (as mentioned in an earlier post, it's from The World according to Me) I got inspired to kick off with a Kandinsky basket! Hug has a great abstract-y style all of his own and we have casually been looking at the abstract artists throughout this year.
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+ A set of Art Cards with a stand
+ A CD of classical music, including Wagner's Lohengrin (Kandinsky was said to have devoted his life to art after hearing this!)
+ A felt rainbow (because his painting are so colourful)
+ A little wooden man
+ A tiny paintbrush (I snapped off the length of the smallest one we had - it's so cute!)
+ A map of Russia (Kandinsky was born in Moscow)
+ And a paper Russian flag
+ I also made a few blocked pages for us to do our own Kandinsky-inspired artworks
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But, today is another day & Lovely saw me photographing it when he got up from his nap & was very excited! He immediately made the rainbow ( I had been going to stitch it together but am so glad I didn't), he put the CD on, and then went through the artworks painting them with his little man and brush. Ahhh, sweeetness for a Mama's soul :)
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So now i'm looking forward to Hug going through it over the weekend & creating our own masterpieces.
And, eventually, I want to get organised and upload these files to box.net to share them with anyone who might be interested :)
I just love this! If I can find ANY time I am definitely going to start some of these lovely baskets. So...how did you make the doll?
ReplyDeleteHi Shannon :)
ReplyDeleteThe doll is just a standard wooden doll - we have a set that came with our wooden dolls house (or 'fire-station' as it's known around here ;)
I will need to use a different doll for the next artist because I'm sure the boys think that this actually *is* Kandinsky!
I look forward to seeing your basket creations.