By Sacha Sukasam, Primary Visual Arts Teacher
For the past couple of weeks, our kindergarten classes have been preparing for spooky season at ISU. Our lessons started off in the school garden where we had a chance to inspect how much the pumpkins had grown since last May. To our surprise, not only have the pumpkins have doubled in size; they have become absolutely ENORMOUS!
As Halloween approaches, the demand to cut off the pumpkins ran high among the younger students. So once again we headed to our garden and harvested the biggest pumpkin in our patch and carefully placed it in our art class where it will inspire our coming projects.
Mosaic pumpkins
Kindergarteners got a chance to work on their fine motor skills by creating their own mosaic pumpkin using yellow and orange pieces of paper on black paper. Meanwhile, grade 5 learned about the world-renowned artist Yayoi Kusama whose work centers around her fascination with dots and pumpkins.
Papier-mâché
Now the grade 5's are faced with a challenge to create their own pumpkin inspired by Kusama's art. Through trial and error, we finally came up with a strong enough structure to start papier-mâché. Please stay tuned on how the pumpkins will come out!