14-01-2013, 05:54 PM
Here at OSC we asked the children to come explore with us during a recent in-day. The challenge put forth to the group was to create a vehicle of any kind that could be later used to watch a movie 'drive in style.' Many groups were formed and soon the multi-purpose room was covered in cardboard, tape, and imagination. Spaceships, trains, race cars, and more began to take shape around the room. Zoe even built a life size replica of a film reel. The hallways were just as busy with most of the creations getting a paint job before lunch. After all the vehicles were finished and lunch was enjoyed everyone made their way into the gym with their creations. The gym was transformed into an old school drive in movie theater with a new school twist (where else could you find spaceships and trains at a drive in movie theater other than OSC?) In keeping with our Exploration theme we watched an invention filled movie. It was amazing to see what everyone was able to create with just their mind, some time and a lot of cardboard. Well done everyone!
Take care,
Carolyn
15-12-2012, 05:33 PM
Welcome to the final day of OSC ‘Art Attack’ Day.
In this final day, we want to make some 3D masks!
This time, we brought several animal mask samples to the
kids to choose from. The kids could choose from rabbits, cats, elephants, zebras, and pigs. The kids used foam sheets to shape their
masks.
Once they picked a particular animal and coloured foam sheet, the traced the shape on the foam sheet.
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| Chose the Animal |
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| Trace the shape on the foam sheet |
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| Cut the foam sheet |
After they cut the animal shape from the foam sheet, you can start to detail your mask!
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| Put the nose and hair on! |
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| Detailing the Ears |
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| A Tiger is getting into shape... |
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| What else we can do? |
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| Cut the eye holes... |
This week we have several great masks that are made by kids. By just using scissors, glue, foam sheets, and imaginations, making 3D masks is as easy as 1, 2, 3.
Here are some great masks made by our kids.
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| Rabbit |
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| Tiger |
And the 3D masks making will conclude our 'Art Attacking' month here at West Richmond Sr. Out-of-School Care this year.
Thanks for following us in the past 3 weeks!
Dennis & Jason Lee
WRCC 14-12-2012, 05:57 PM
Today at OSC we worked on the environmental video project.
Nolan conjured up some interview questions like ‘What do you do to conservation
energy?’ and Rohin patiently directed and filmed the interview. During the
interview with Adam outside Nolan was unfortunate enough to receive a gooey
gift on his shoulder by one of the snow geese, but he was unfazed, as he
continued his interview. The whole process was a lot of fun, even with the
geese trying to sabotage us. We even managed to get over 10 minutes of footage.
Next we move on to editing the video.
We are looking forward to it.
-Peter
WRCC 05-12-2012, 05:51 PMStarting in November, every Thursday is "Art Attack Day!" at West Richmond Sr. Out-of-School Care. Thanks to our Assistant Leader Jason Lee for his creative and innovative ideas. Jason provided the children in our program with a chance to try easy hands-on art projects that they can also do at home. This week, children are making 'Peacocks' out of coloured construction papers and tape.
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| Figure 1 |
Making a Paper Peacock looks easy but it still requires a bit of patience from the kids. First, kids need to cut the construction papers into stripes and then choose one of the colour paper stripe as the base as shown in Figure 1.
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| Figure 2 |
After several rolls of the colour stripes, we can taped the stripes together as shown in figure 2.
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| Female Peacock in Process |
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| Curve up the Tails! |
When the peacock's body is finished, we can use pencil to make peacock's curly tails.
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| Female and Male Peacocks |
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| Cute Green Peacock |
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| Turkey...? or Peacock? |
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| Put the Beak and Head on the Peacock |
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| Colourful Peacock Body |
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| Peacock with Legs |
Again, always to use your creativity, and explore your imagination with this art project! This week, our kids used their imaginations to create different kinds of beautiful peacocks. Starting next week, 'Art Attack' is going to start a 3 weeks project on making your 3D Photos.
Thanks for dropping by!
Dennis
05-12-2012, 05:35 PM
The children at Sr. Out-of School Care have been keeping busy with a variety of new activities and games. We are always looking for new and exciting games that are not only challenging for the kids but brings out much creativity and of course emphasis on fun. Just in case you have missed it we have livened up the room and here are just a few of the games and art activities they have been up to for the past month.
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| Our new "Welcome" banner is up! We have removed the old one and replaced it with the new. The next time you come by try and find your child's name on the banner. |
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| A new twist on a old game, try and get the little marble inside from start to finish while moving the ball through the maze. You have concentrate and be patient. |
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| Our new favortie card game; Ratuki! Popular among all the children here and very easy to play. Try to race to five, but do not forget to call out Ratuki to collect your points. |
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| Be creative and innovative: Bridge Building with Dennis and friends! |
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| Tye Dye Extravaganza! |
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| The finished product! Carolyn had fun planning and running this fun tye dye day for the children. |
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| Fun with clay, hooray! |
We are always looking for new and fun activities to challenge the children. Here are just some of the fun things we have going on at Sr. Out-of-School Care, we look forward to our next project and hope that you got a glimpse of the things we enjoy every day.
Bye for now,
Mercedes
