FEELING FACES

C. SHOWING HIS WORK

     Working with a large group of children on Friday afternoons, I have made some lovely friends and found tremendous delight in watching them grow as "little people who LOVE to create".

      We use large pieces of newsprint to do most of our work.  The children spread out all over the room....on table and floor.  We use watercolors, pencils, sharpie pens and sometimes a special gold or silver marker.  We listen to music.  We talk and think, wonder and discuss w h i l e we work.

      On Friday, December 21st, we painted 12 faces with different expressions....mad, sleepy, calm, worried, happy and others.   I asked the kids to think about the ways our mouth and eyes change as we emote.  We found that our eyebrows were very important to express the feeling we were depicting.

      The drawings were really fun.   The creative energy was really high.....and the finished product was very pleasing to almost all.