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Pop-up Animation
These activities are designed for children from 5 years old. Folds and cut-outs lead to the creation of pop-up cards of colourful animals and characters in 3D. These workshops were organised during events like the “Evere Festival!” and “Halloween at Karreveld Castle”.
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Little Kazoos workshop
During this workshop, the little kazoos will sound the words, like the rhymes of the same name. Letting yourself be go with the music of words, opens doors to a funny and amazing world ! Each child creates a world around a rhyme and draws it in pictures using stencils and pastels on a small
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Creative reading of The Poet Circus and Mr. Cheng
Different activities around these two books have been offered in bookstores (Le Rat conteur, La Licorne, La parenthèse), and libraries.
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About my home town
We visit the town, in search of items that will form the beginning of so many stories : a park, a place, the name of a street, a leaf… We collect small things found on our way that will be used as clues and souvenirs thereafter. Children develop their views, their observations and then express
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Draw, invent stories: how to make your book ?
From reading children’s books, children are asked to invent a story that they will illustrate. Several drawing techniques are suggested : painting, gouache, pastels, scratch cards, ink, fingerprints, and also pop’up folds, flaps, collages.Which characters to choose, what story to tell ? Throughout the week, we will answer these questions together and look at how to make
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Once upon a time, there was …the circus !
Inspired by the game “Once upon a time, there was…”, lets create a collective game of cards on the theme of the circus. The rules of the game ? Have fun telling a funny, scary or sad story from the cards. The first player who uses all their cards wins the game ! Except it is we,
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Surprise ! – An illustration workshop adapted from the lively books of Bruno Munari
An illustration workshop from the lively books of Bruno Munari “Look yourself in the eye. We are all different… Mix the designs, change the colours, get accustomed to seeing the world through the eyes of others.” (an extract from the card games “Guardiamo negli occhi” (Look into my eyes), invented by Bruno Munari).What can a
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Class interview about the job of an illustrator author
As an author illustrator, these interviews make it possible to highlight different aspects of the profession, but also to answer questions posed by young readers. How is a story created? The words, the story line, the character research.What is the inspiration? Modern painters, old photographs and other Epinal images.What are the tools used ? Charcoal that
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The production of a book : from creation of the story to the book
From creation of the story to the book, these workshops are designed for children from five to twelve years old. In a school setting, children develop an individual or collective story. They create a small storyboard and follow this drafted framework in order to make their originals in large format. Double pages are then reduced
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Introduction to art and history of art of the twentieth century
The original idea for these children’s workshops, is to link the history of art and creation. As an illustrator and art historian, I propose to cover in a creative and fun way the work of an important twentieth century painter, through a planned session.First of all, a presentation of the artist, including major events of
