What do you do with an idea?

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We read What Do You Do With an Idea? Written by Kobi Yamada and illustrated by Mae Besom.

Then, with the art tools and materials shown above, children envisioned and expressed their ideas in many different ways. 

“What do ideas become? Big things, brave things, smart things, silly things, good things. Things like stories, artwork, journeys, inventions, communities, products and cures. Everything you see around you was once an idea.”

Art is a language

Paul Klee (Swiss). Castle and  Sun. Oil on canvas. 1928

What is going on in this picture?

What do you see that makes you say that?

“A city; houses with the lights off; a castle with a waterfall and moon; a little country; space – the planets are yellow; a place for  skateboards and roller skating; a party truck; the whole world with oceans, continents, fields and a moon..

Draw and color a building using geometric shapes.

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Build a structure with unit blocks.

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Draw it!