Art Pieces From April

The 4.5yo attended only 2 art lessons in April given our busy schedule. 

He made this pretty clock in one of the lessons. 

The theme for one of the lessons was all related to witches and wizards. I think it is a really tough theme for this age group. 

All kids were asked to draw a witch in her house, with her pot, broom and a cat. Then it was suggested to them to add some paintings for the walls. So this was his interpretations.. The paintings on the wall showed a ship and another of a house with a sun and grass. And instead of a witch with her cat, he insisted on a dog and added a tiny bird. :> 

A pumpkin house for the witch. But he was quite unhappy while painting this as he kept telling his teacher he doesn't know how a pumpkin look like. Haha... 

The idea for this piece above is to paint a spooky looking haunted house. The kids were not given any paintings or pictures to refer to, so they were encouraged to express on their own. Again, I thought it is a silly idea for a 4-5yo to paint a haunted house. I can't imagine many kids that age would know much, or anything at all about the concept of ghost or spirits and a haunted place. So in the end, M interpreted it as a house for the witches.

Umm.. this was M's version of an owl. I thought it was a monster! Oops! 

The theme for the other lesson was Underwater Creatures. 

I love the assortment of creatures he drew for this piece and as expected, my boy wanted to add a cruise ship. He said it made his drawing more interesting to have a ship sailing above the sea creatures.

An alligator caught in the net... by a police boat. He had a story to accompany this piece. :> This was a self-expression piece.

The kids were shown how to draw the Merlion and the Singapore Flyer. According to the teacher, he was the only one who drew it a little differently from the rest. 

His Merlion has the 'hump' (not sure what it is called and short of a better word..) on the head like the actual one, whereas all his classmates drew a smooth curved line for the head as demonstrated by the teacher. When he was asked by his teacher, he said that was how he remembered the Merlion's head to be - there was a 'higher part', referring to the 'hump'. Whoa! I am so proud of him!! I didn't even realise it myself!