Art Attack of the Giant Icecreams!!!

The sunshine came out for a wonderful art class today.  Many thanks to Ms A who let us use her beautiful backyard to create our monster icecreams.  As you can see, the sparkles and jewels were completely overdone and demands for MORE GLITTER PLEASE were hard to keep up with!  In the end, some delicious icecream combinations were created!  I really think Master B should have stuck with his original plan of squished worm icecream. 

 Happy Birthday to Master W, the cupcakes were a complete hit.

 3 year old with scissors, cutting skills were supreme!  Amazing Miss I.

I was blown away that these 4, 5 and 6 year olds knew which primary colours to mix to make green and orange.  Wonderful.

Hooray for some real icecream.  Just because they hadn't had enough sugar.......sorry mums, dads and nannys!

All in all, a great session, the children were really well behaved and I hope they all had a bit of fun.

Dawn Tan Icecreams!

Since reading Frankie magazine I have discovered an amazing artist by the name of Dawn Tan.  I have contacted Dawn to ask permission to use this wonderful Giant Icecream idea in some of my own art classes, and as she said Yes!  Hooray!! (Thank you SO much Dawn).

I have tried it out on Charlie and Sam.  They absolutely LOVED making their giant banana, caramel and choc chip (with sparkly star topping) icecream.  Only problem is, it doesn't taste too good.  I'm running some holiday classes and may just incorporate this idea into the lessons!  If it's sunny, I'll have to remember to bring some real icecream and cones to eat while the paint is drying.  Shhh, don't tell the kids, or the mums and dads for that matter!
I really loved Charlie's idea of making it drip in the summer sun!  Here is the finished product:

Yummmo, almost good enought to eat!