De Vinci Artist Study
November 4th, 2007
This term we have been studying De Vinci and 6 of his famous paintings. Over the term, I have put one of his works as the screen saver on our computer. I would change the picture without telling the children and see if they caught it. They always did. Then, thanks to the Homeschooling Diva’s over at Ambleside Online, we printed out all of the works twice and made a matching or gold fish game out of them. They love playing it and our three year old even yells out “SELF PORTRAIT” when he gets the correct match and our 4 year old asked if it was a picture of God. I smiled thinking, “Why is it that children imagine God to be an old man with long hair and a beard?”.
A good friend of mine lent me a great book that helped to tie de Vinci’s life together. It is called Leonardo’s Horse and Jackson loved it. It tells the tale of de Vinci’s one work that never was finished. Jackson wistfully said at the end of the book “If only Leonardo could of seen it”. We liked it so much we will be adding it to our family library. I can purchased a gently used one for about 5 bucks on amazon. Yikes~I can’t even buy junk at Wal-Mart for that price!
Go read a good book today~ Preferably out loud with your kids all snuggled up on the couch. Not that I am telling you what to do or anything, but I promise it is lots of fun!
Entry Filed under: The Arts, Book Reviews
3 Comments
Add your own1. lora | November 5th, 2007 at 10:03 am
I love the idea of “go fish”, or even a matching card game with art. Working with two pre-schoolers at home, I could easily implement something like this with any of our themes for lots of fun and learning! Thanks so much.
Is there a website where you got the art you printed all in the same size for the cards?
2. admin | November 5th, 2007 at 10:33 am
I actually just used what the other moms had made on a AO web ring.
One thing I just did though is go find the work I like, save it as a jpeg and get them printed as 4×6 pictures through CVS. They turned out wonderfully:-) You could have 2 of everything you like made and glue them on construction paper and use that. Just an idea and it would save you some ink:-)
I just did a ton of ballet prints from Degas for my 4 year old who is in to all things ballet. They turned out great:-)
Hope that helps!
3. JacciM | November 5th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Hi, Amber
We love the Jean Fritz books, too. The girls especially got into Cna’t You Make Them Behave, King George? Cute.
I wanted to let you know that I’m moving my blog!! Here’s the new addy - http://theeducationallife.blogspot.com/
I’d love it if you could come over for a visit. Traffic is nonexistent with it being so brand new. Every little bit helps
Blessings,
Jacci
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