Stealthy Crafts with Kevin and Sarah

Hello Sr OSC Families,

The highlight of the previous week was the crafting of paper roll ninjas. We, Sarah and Kevin, decided to go eco-friendly this week by creating art with paper card stock and toilet rolls. This was an amazingly simple and easy to make craft.

Tying together imagination with simple arts and craft designed for children of all ages, the children at Senior Out of School Care embarked on a journey of exploring the art of Japanese warriors by creating a one of a kind paper roll ninja.

Paper roll ninja provided the children an opportunity to explore and use their inner creative juices on a calm and quiet Friday afternoon. Masterpieces are not created overnight but, with these OSC minds, this was not the impossible.

Materials needed to make this  ninja can be found in a home setting such as toilet roll cores, card stock, straws, glue stick, black marker/felt pen.

Some excited children decided to use their talents to make their own unique creatures. A couple made octopus stretching their creativity to a whole new level.

Warmest Regards,

Kevin & Sarah

Blog Worthy Moments with Megan

Hi Senior OSC families!

I’m Megan, one of the assistant leaders here at West Richmond OSC and have had the opportunity to help plan and execute art/activities on Tuesdays at Senior OSC. This week we decided to try Popsicle Art as a fun project.  The kids first worked on creating their own canvas and moved onto finalizing their own master pieces.

This Popsicle Art was a simple project that provided each kid with a handful of popsicles, a hot glue gun and vibrant coloured paints that ranged from pastel blues to luscious greens. First they had to hot glue roughly 10 popsicle sticks together and then they could paint an image of their choice over the new canvas they’ve just created. With a photo example as a guideline the kids let their creativity and imagination flow as they painted and glued with excitement and laughter creating works of art that Van Gough would be proud to see.

This activity is interesting because of how it allows each of the kids here at OSC to interpret the craft as they choose and let their creativity be explored. Some chose to follow the specific structure shown in the photo example of the popsicles aligned side by side. Others created a frame like structure to paint over. Seeing each kid that created a popsicle art, every one of the artworks different from another, really showcased every child’s inner creativity and artistic ability in a fun way.

Here below are images of some of the finished products.

 

This was an extremely fun art project to be a part of and looking forward to the many that will continue to follow!

Until next time,

Megan

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