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Spots

Ingredients

  • marker pen caps
  • pencil or crayon stubs
  • pieces of rubbers
  • coarse salt
  • sponges
  • vegetables
  • scrap material in general.

Instructions

The spots of colour can be created in different ways: by letting a drop of diluted tempera paint fall from 30/40 cm, or a drop of pure tempera from even higher up. Another way that works just as well and is perhaps more fun for children is to dip a natural sponge slightly into a dish with tempera or other colours, then press it onto a sheet of paper. The shapes created by chance are truly wonderful and, when observed closely, some similarities can be found.

Presentation of deforming elements

To move on to the next technique, cut the vegetables - potatoes, carrots, celery, onions, oranges, and so on - and dip the inner part into colour and press it on the paper. The same process can be used with other small objects, like pencils, rubbers, and the caps to marker pens.

Describing the technique

Having obtained a spot of colour, it is possible to transform it into many shapes with different techniques and tools, like little wooden sticks or toothpicks, to distort the edges. Or just let the spot dry and then colour over it: in this way the students can discover faces, shapes, and actions that can easily be revealed by making small lines with a pencil or pen. It can be decided that they will only look for faces and begin an investigation aimed at establishing the theme of the search for similarities, and then create a sort of gallery of spot faces.

 

Exhibition

Whatever technique is used by the little artists, it will be interesting to collect the spots in a gallery and then join the spots together to create new effects, find new meaning, and invent a story.

The stories created, that narrate the adventures of imaginary characters, settings, and other things found in the spots, can be collected in little books to be entitled and kept as memorabilia.

This workshop is very interesting and always new, because the children will always find something to do if they start with a "unique piece" - every spot is different, and each one will give it a different interpretation. Stimulating imagination is fundamental for creativity and play.