Se7en and a Salvador Dali Celebration…

It was Salvador Dali’s Birthday this week, so we had to celebrate with a couple of projects:

And before we get going with the projects here are some fun links:

• A great biography for kids from ArtSmarts4Kids.
• MyKidsArt.com.au has a fabulous Dali page with links and artworks to browse.
• Salvador Dali Art History from E-How… Gotta love the “more Articles like this section.”
• I just love the ten fun facts from gvjh.org
• Go and explore The Dali Museum,
• A list of lesson plans from the Salvador Dali Museum
• And you just have to have a quick peep in the kids section of the museum shop.
• A couple of printable Dali coloring pages at Supercoloring.

Here are our projects:

1. Dripping Utensils
2. Long-Legged Beasties
3. Colorful Collage Clocks

1. Dripping Utensils:

   This is the picture, “Undersea Pizza Slicers…” that got us celebrating:

   

   A lot of drawing has been going on around our house just lately and we took a turn with the kitchen utensils:

   

   

   Once we had our drawings done we used watercolor crayons and then painted some bright fun utensils…

   

   And we were done – some dripping utensils.

   
2. Long-Legged Beasts:

We Began with plain old plasticiene…



And then we made literally hundreds of tiny legless beasts:



And with the help of toothpicks:



Our beasts got legs:



And we were done:


3. Colorful Collage Clocks:

We were gifted with blow markers – ages ago and a very rainy week seemed like the right time to try them… paper-plates were colored:



Then with a whole heap of little magazine pictures we collaged away:



Finally some card clock hands were added with split pins:



And we were done…



Nobody really wanted to fold theirs!!!

And a day of Dali wouldn’t be right without a couple of books to drool over:

That’s us, apart from a Salvador pizza for supper:

Have Fun!!!