With Kidzaw.com I can easily add homeschool art to our school schedule. With Master Kitz The Starry Night even us less artistic can create a masterpiece! Art and artists are a few of those subjects that totally intimidate me. Here are a few reasons:
- I can’t draw so I don’t think I can help my kids with their projects.
- Time always seems to slip away for “extras” like this.
- there’s a lot of prep, researching the artist and getting everything ready for a project, most of the time I forgot I needed supplies
Kidzaw kits fixed all of those problems for me! We set aside a few minutes after lunch, I opened the box, read the information and instructions on the paper and started our project. It was all right there, no prep! It really was just that easy.
We recently watched an episode of Doctor Who about van Gogh. We were fascinated by his life and his art. We seem to talk about it a lot recently, so I was very excited to try this kit.
I loved the information that was on the sheet. There were two different sections, one was in paragraph form with detailed information and one was in more of a timeline and included information about art styles. I read over it myself and paraphrased for my younger children. Many times when we read about von Gogh it focuses on his mental illness and says that he cut off his ear. Here we learned about how von Gogh grew up, we learned about his parents and also about the locations he traveled and lived to pursue his art. We learned that at one point he lived in a community for artists, it was here that he got in an argument with another artist, Paul Gauguin. Guaguin left this community and this is when von Gogh cut off his ear. It was from this time forward that plummeted him into a depression that he would not recover from. This was great information that lead us on a search for more history. I was very glad to not only have this project to do, but to learn so much about the artist.
The kit contained everything we needed to create two projects. We now have the rollers and stencils to make more another time. We still have a little bit on paint left to start with.
First we covered that table with brown paper. The instructions do tell you to cover your table and encourage you to get a little messy. We had no problem with the messy part and were glad for the heads up.
Next we added the stickers for the places we wanted stars. I would have liked some more stars. We had a total of 6, each child used 3. The picture in the example does show more that 6 on one project. We did like our final project though.
We put blue paint on a paper plate and rolled this neat roller all through it and all over our paper. Then we used this roller with white paint to make the “wind” part.
After that we took off the star stickers and put the big template on and used the foam roller to add the black. We forgot to put the yellow on the white star area, it didn’t effect the finished project.
After removing the big stencil we let it dry a little and used the pastel crayons on add some detail. This is the step that my 6 and 7 year old lost interest. I finished my 6 year olds project since we were doing it together. I think my 7 year old will come back and finish it in the future.
I absolutely loved this kit and information about the artist. They offer other kits featuring many tinted artists. I am looking forward to adding to our schedule.
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