Kitah Alef’s Honey Jars
The Kitah Alef children decorated their own honey jars for Rosh Hashanah. During Art class, the children were each given a strip of muslin and hexagon stamps. The children printed the fabric with yellow and gold paint.
Kitah Gimmel-2 Makes Apple Plates
The Kitah Gimmel-2 children decorated their own plates for Rosh Hashanah. In the Atelier, each child was given a clear glass plate plus apple, shofar, and honey comb stamps.
Kitah Gimmel-1 Makes Drip Trays for Rosh Hashanah
For their Rosh Hashana take-home project, the children painted their own drip trays. In the Atelier, the children were presented with hexagon-shaped panels, honey drippers, and honeycomb stamps.
Kitah Daled’s Challah Covers
For Rosh Hashanah, the children made challah covers. In the Atelier, the children were each given a cloth napkin to decorate.
Pre-Kitah Alef’s Apple Plates
For Rosh Hashana, the Pre-Kitah Alef children decorated their own plates. Each child was given a 4’’ glass plate to paint.
Kitah Bet’s Clay Apples
The Kitah Bet children are making honey jars for Rosh Hashanah. Their first art offering in the Atelier was clay, rollers, and sculpting tools.
Kitah Gimmel 2 Pomegranate Cards
For Rosh Hashanah, the children were presented with images of pomegranates in the Atelier. They used pens, pencils, pastels, and markers in shades of red and pink to depict the fruits in cardstock.
Kitah Alef Paints Shofars for Rosh Hashana
For Rosh Hashanah the Kitah Alef Morahs wanted to depict the Shofar. During art class, the children were presented with yarn, liquid watercolors, brown tempera paint, and shofar shaped stamps.
Kitah Gimmel-1 Makes Honey Comb Prints
For Rosh Hashanah, the children were presented with bubble wrap “gloves,” hexagon stamps, and honey dippers.
Kitah Daled/Kitah Gimmel Loose Part Bees
The Kitah Gimmel and Daled children were presented with loose parts and hot glue during enrichment. They were asked to make bees with these materials.
Kitah Daled’s Rosh Hashanah Cards
For Rosh Hashanah, the children created beehive patterned cards. They dipped hexagon shaped stamps into gold and yellow paint and printed them on watercolor paper.
Ice Painting in the Atelier
The children were offered colorful ice cubes made with watercolor paints and food coloring. Each ice cube had a popsicle stick handle to make the experience less messy.
Summer Atelier:
This week Morah Jessica presented the children with ice cubes encapsulating flowers, glitter, and essential oils.
Summer in the Atelier Continued:
This week’s sensory art experience was Bubble Foam! This experience was appropriate for all age groups.
Summer Art in the Atelier Continued
The children were offered a gross motor art experience this week. A large plastic bin was lined with brown kraft paper.
Summer Art in the Atelier-Continued
Kitah Alef-This week the children explored shaving cream with squeegees and other plastic tools.
IJP-Summer Art
During Summer Camp at IJP the children are offered many messy art and sensory experiences. These sensory experiences are all great for gross motor development.
“Thank You Mr. Panda" Collage By Kitah Alef
One of the Kitah Alef children’s favorite books is “Thank You Mr. Panda.” In this story the panda gives each of his friends a gift wrapped in this colorful wrapping paper.
Kitah Gimmel’s Large Cardboard Flower
After finishing the loose-part wasp, Kitah Gimmel decided that the wasp needed a flower to accompany it.
Kitah Bet-2 Makes Papier Mache Plants
For their final big project of the year, Kitah Bet-2 created their own papier mache plants. This project blends together their interests in plants with sensory play.