The Burlington Art Centre (BAC) is now called the Art Gallery of Burlington (AGB) and is located on Lakeshore Road. Our class enjoyed a wonderful trip there this Wednesday. We started out with half of us going to the weaving area and doing a course there. The other half of our group went to the pottery room to make clay owls. My group started out in the weaving room. We were greeted by a whole table full of pre-cut wool and were asked to choose three colours.
Then we went to the looms and thread our needles.
It took us a little bit to get the hang of it but after a while most students were able to leave with a woven bracelet or headband. In between sessions our group went on a tour of the gallery exhibit. They had a lovely garden with fish and tropical plants with sculptures of the four elements (earth, wind, fire and water). Then we went to see another outdoor exhibit entitled 'The Watchers'. These were life size sculptures hiding around the garden in various poses and with a variety of expressions on their faces. Have to admit this was a little creepy but it really did get the students talking about art and how they felt viewing it. (The sculpture artist was Magdeline Dykstra) (Wayne Cardinelli was the artist who did all the amazing pottery teapots, many of which were on display for the children)
Then my group was off to the pottery room where we learned how to make hollow 3D owls. We had to follow many directions to create textured wings and ears. I was so engrossed in the pottery and looking at the exhibits in the hallway, I forgot to take pictures. I will be picking up the owls once they are fired in the kiln. I'll add pictures later :) Trust me, they are all very cute and every one of them is different depending on the little hands that made it.
Looking for summer activities? The AGB has many summer art courses for children. Looking through the booklet, there are clay, drawing comics, photography and even clay-mation art classes running all summer for children. Sounds fun to me!
Butterflies
This week was exciting as we got to release most of our butterflies. We still have many still in the chrysalis and one slow caterpillar! I counted well over 65 chrysalis this year...which is an all time success record for us. Here they are in the container, feeling the warm breeze and flying around in there.
We read a book entitled 'Melody's Mystery' which talks about how Monarch butterflies are the only butterflies who instinctively know to migrate. We learned that Monarchs that live west of the Rocky Mountains migrate to California and those that live east of the Rocky Mountains migrate to Ciudad, Mexico! I guess Monarchs don't do mountains!
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We are working on a super secret Father's day gift - hopefully no one blabbed :)
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