Art with the princess!

We have been learning about Vincent van Gogh!

I am NOT an art teacher or an expert, I am just trying to introduce my little one into some facts and history about the fascinating art world. Therefore, our learning time consist about:

- Reading a tiny artist biography (Pinky’s just turned 3 years old, so too many details are out of question)

- Admiring and talking about the paintings. For our first artist, I just printed 4 of his most famous paintings:

• Starry night

• Sunflowers

• Bedroom in Arles

• Self portrait

Note: It is amazing how kids can interpret feelings. When we were talking about his work; she took his self-portrait and told me: “Mommy, he is sad!”. In fact, he was mentally sick!!

Then, we just have fun recreating our versions of his art. Here’s a great site with his masterpieces and a short information about them.

Pinky’s Starry night version!

Pinky’s self-portrait! (Isn’t it cute??? She even painted her blue shirt and pink pants- we didn’t have a pink marker so she used red!) 

Pinky’s flowers on a vase version! (We don’t have any sunflowers.)

Pinky’s version of a room at home: The living room. Maybe you can see a sofa with daddy sitting on left and Pinky on right. Next to the sofa (at right) is the fan. There are some toys on the floor.

Our arty corner!!!

Here’s another art project. Finger-painting on canvas and after that pasting bottle caps, wiggly eyes, confetti, and buttons. Great collage and really fun!!

And, at last (for now), my favorite one: Mommy’s and princess’ hands collage! I found the idea at this amazing blog full of beautiful art to do with the kids.

It was a super duper fun one!!!!

Do you have any other ideas I can do with my 3 years old one to teach her about art?

Take care!