PaintMisbehavin

Paint Misbehavin’ Sip & Paint - a grown up art session with drinks! Is coming soon to 🧑‍🎨 🎨 🍷

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Today’s activity was partly inspired by artist Kader Attia, and partly by one of my favourite Instagram accounts

posted ages ago that she wrapped some of her son’s toys (dinosaurs I think?) in tin foil for him to unwrap and play with when they were travelling. Her photos instantly made me think of Attia’s installation Ghost. Did anyone see it at the years ago? He used wrapped and shaped tin foil to create figures in prayer. I love it as an artwork because it manages to be beautiful, haunting, fun and intriguing all at once.

So today we tried out two activities- firstly I wrapped some wooden dolls in tin foil for Arlo to open. This is great for inspiring curiosity (a key trait for any artist!) and improving dexterity and is a perfect game for younger toddlers.

Then using the same wooden dolls as a base, we created our own version of of Attia’s Ghost. We wrapped foil around the dolls to get a person shape, before carefully removing them and adjusting the foil. I think they worked pretty well! This is a great activity for slightly older kids. I’ve even run a workshop based on this to groups of year 5&6 students, where we got them to work in teams and create life sized sculptures using each other’s bodies to wrap the foil around! If you have more than one primary age kid at home and a lot of tin foil, it’s really really fun 😆 again, great for developing dexterity as well as sculpture skill, like casting and moulding, and of course teamwork! 💪