(Photos of bird papier mache sculpture and swimming below courtesy of John Cope, Stratton ABC Foundation. Smiling girl with her creations – photo by Li Li Tan)

ArtSpeak.org conducted a papier mache workshop for the children of Stratton ABC Foundation yesterday at their home in Saraphi (Chiang Mai. It was a beautiful sunny day with some fun river swimming thrown in! Check out the talented children’s lovely creations below and on our FB page. See also post and youtube video on Stratton’s website.

Note: the mural drawing and painting took about 1.5 days from start to finish.

Thank you cards for volunteers made by the children.

Today was ArtSpeak’s last day at Kids Home Foundation Smile Holidays Project. Needless to say, it was an emotional time for us volunteers. It has been a lot of fun working with the children who attended the classes. Thank you to all who supported and helped me, especially to the wonderful volunteers who conducted many interesting art and craft sessions. I will share photos and information about some of our activities in upcoming posts next week. Or check out the albums on opur FB page – https://www.facebook.com/ArtSpeak.Org.

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Above: Papier mache art by artist Li Li Tan (Gallery of Dreams & Colours and director of ArtSpeak.org)

ArtSpeak will be at Stratton ABC Foundation (Saraphi, Chiang Mai) on 12 May 2012 to teach the children there how to make papier mache sculptures. Thank you to K. Poon for offering to teach the children some craft activities. Looking forward to the day’s creative activities!

Indoor mural bordering one wall at Kids Home Foundation.

ArtSpeak.org worked with 11 lovely children attending the Smile Holidays Project to paint mural for a new children’s room at Kids Home Foundation. The children’s ages ranged from 6 – 11years old.

Also check out the album and other photos on our FB page.

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Art & Craft Activities by ArtSpeak.org at Kids Home Foundation‘s Smile Holidays Project

More fun art and craft activity for children led by the wonderfully talented and lovely ArtSpeak.org volunteer, K. Poon. See slideshow below and photos on our FB page.

Papier mache art armatures made by children

Art Class 1: Here are some of the papier mache armatures and base made by the children attending the Smile Holidays Project at Kids Home Foundation. Activity led by artist Li Li Tan (from ArtSpeak.org and Gallery of Dreams and Colours) with the help of volunteers, K. Poon and Nicole. Fun day! The children had to learn a lot of patience though!

ArtSpeak.org’s next art activity will be at Stratton ABC Foundation (one weekend on the 3rd or 4th week of May 2012). I will be teaching the children there how to make papier mache sculptures and if there is time, to continue painting more walls murals. It would be great is anyone wants to help out or to contribute the following materials:

• Wall paint (white and other colours)
• Acrylic paint (in tubs of 250 – 500ml; in tubes or 2 – 3 boxes) & varnish for protecting the artwork (3 small bottles or spray cans)
  
• Masking tape (8 – 10 rolls)
• Old newspapers and cardboard boxes
• Drawing paper/blocks (A4 – A3 sized)
• White glue (2 big bottles)
• White flour (about 2kg)
• Old and used paintbrushes (for artwork and for walls), pails

Please contact Li Li via our contact form or via our FB page.

If you wish to help the Foundation in other ways (their permanent facility fund raising, re-cycle project etc), please click here for more information on volunteering/donations.

ArtSpeak has started  art activities for Kids Home Foundation‘s Smile Holidays Project (26 Mar – 11 May 2012).  Am really grateful and thankful to have wonderful volunteers helping out. I can’t say enough thank you’s to Nicôle Rossetti le Strange, K. Jo Tatun, K. Poon and Karlee Jacklin for all your help so far. And of course, Stuart Anderson, get well soon!

A big thank you too to Janice Pono, Jessica Gould, Adam Sandaver, Joanna MacClean and Ronnalit N-Kham for your various contributions towards our art projects.

Here are some art pieces the children created using materials found on their nature walk (no plucking!). They worked in groups of 4 – 5 around the theme of Nature. They were also asked about the basic shapes they can see in the artwork (this will lead to the drawing of shapes/outlines for their papier mache activity next week).