What makes me happy (one part):  If I can paint. I painted it in our accomodation on the wall. And the best thing is you can get inspiration from everything around you, you don't have to buy it,it's in your head. 

I had inspiration from this kind of colorful patterns from Africa:

for example this colours on these old walls in the morningsunshie are inspiring, at least for me

or these umbrellas

We visited the Sint-Bavo church where we couldn't see the the altar ufortunately. But Philip told an interesting story about it, that why are two altar pieces missing.
We went to the Design Museum here in Gent.
We got a paper from Philip with ideas, questions on it.

I think it's ipmportant if you bring children to a museum to give them different aspects so they not just run trough the museum but observe the things, learn something, get isnpiraton.
In my highschool we loved visiting museums in the "Night of museums",because in this one night  every museum is open till late night, waiting  people with special programs.

I enjoyed the design museum here, I've seen a dust mite through a loupe. It was disgusting. One of my favourite item from the museum was a table from books covered with acrylate and a ventilator without windmills:
                                

designed by: James Dyson

In this session Philip showed us awsome programes on the net what we can use with the cildren.
Then we created our own lesson  plan for introduceing a  painting with these programs.
This is our's:

                               

(with 6 years old)

- project for at least one week

- What kind of bugs do you know?  Which is your favourite?

- if they have they can bring books from bugs, pictures, their own stories with bugs

- SCREENCAST-O-MATIC  picture and sound of the bugs 

  (later they have to recognise the bugs from th sounds)

- imitate the bugs (movemnets) – the we make pictures with FOTODANZ -we would do like this with the children:

- and we would paint bugs on the wall with fingers

- bugs from paper with stud

by the way: check out her, she's one of my friend in hungary, she's very talented I like her works, can use them with children as well

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