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| Ms. Pat in her element! |
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| Image from wimp.com. |
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| Each participant in Week #2 of the Painting Sampler Platter had the opportunity to check out a variety of art-related books, as well as take home additional information about the artists on whom we focused. |
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| Lots of great art books! |
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| This week's artists included Frida Kahlo and Henri Matisse. |
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| Then we got to business with our own interpretation of each artist's hallmark style. |
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| First, we tried our skills at drawing self-portraits with colored pencils. |
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| The results were unique and beautiful! |
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| More self-portraits at Fredericktown. |
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| Some fantastic landscapes were created, as well. |
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| An amazing product from PSP! |
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| After self-portraits, we created Matisse-like paper collages. |
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| Some kids thought seasonally... |
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| While others adopted a more abstract, but equally eye-catching, approach. |
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| A collaborative collage-in-progress at Ste. Genevieve. |
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| Artists referenced for the first week of the Painting Sampler Platter included Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock. Kids could visit the information table for artist bios and art-related take-home activities, as well as for drawing and crafting books to check out. |
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| After a brief introduction to both artists and their style of work, everyone got busy creating! |
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| A Cubist masterpiece. |
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| More wacky fun with Cubism. |
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| Another Picasso-esque piece. |
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| And another gem. |
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| At the Pollock station, kids tried their hands at action painting by flinging, smearing, and dripping paint on their cardstock canvases. |
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| A work in progress. |
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| Look at the gorgeous use of space and color! |
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| Works of art waiting to dry. |
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| A few more creative pieces. |
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| Referencing a different artist, does anyone see shades of a Starry Night...? |
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| And a few more from our Annapolis branch. |
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| This one is called "Messy Cat" :) |
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| Look at the great texture! |
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| Image from the O'Neil Sisters website. |
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| Our giraffe-themed Activity Table featured number placemats, a stick-the-spot-on-the-giraffe game, and animal pattern matching cards (plus, a bonus giraffe book to read!). |
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| A few of our book choices- and a pic of our cute craft! |
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| Our game was giraffe limbo. We had lots of fun pretending to be giraffes at the watering hole. |
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| For our craft, we patterned our giraffes using fingerprints! |
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| Getting creative with ink stamping. |
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| Working on our craft at the Cuba branch. |
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| At Ste. Genevieve. |
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| One of the most creative giraffes of the week. |
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| Who knew giraffes could stand on their heads?? |
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| All of our giraffes were unique- just like our fingerprints! |
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| Wrapping up with some puzzle time. |
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| This week's Activity Table included goldfish cracker counting, snowball tossing, and a "feed the penguin" color game. |
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| A couple of our week's book selections. |
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| Starting off the story time with our animal ABC matching chart. |
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| For our game this week, we learned how to walk like penguins protecting their eggs. |
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| More penguin games at Cuba! |
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| We had a great crowd at Ironton! |
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| Working on our craft at Bourbon. |
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| Using scissor skills at Ste. Genevieve. |
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| The finished product! |
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| All smiles with our paper tube penguins. |
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| What a great day at story time! |
