Coloring fruit and vegetable designs, drawing and painting on vegetables, or using them as inking pads, … These are some examples of activities using coloring and painting as a way to introduce nature to children. Below several examples of such creative activity organized in our gardens:
Creation of a memory game with children from the Bercy nursery school
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As the weather did not allow us to work in the vegetable garden, we decided to create a memory game with the children. We printed black and white drawings of fruit and vegetables in vegetable gardens or baskets on sheets … Lire la suite
Decorating the Traversine Villiot Christmas teepee
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All set! All the elements are ready to be hung on the Christmas Teepee in the Traversine Villiot garden! Plant balls, stars decorated with fir branches and pine cones, colored bamboo snowflakes, wooden snowmen… Despite the cold, the children enjoyed … Lire la suite
Star decoration for the Christmas teepee
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Children from the Bercy elementary school played an active role in decorating the Christmas Tipi in the Traversine Villiot garden.Among their creations, based exclusively on plants, they decorated stars made from strings wrapped around a wire, using Christmas tree branches … Lire la suite
Decorating the tipi in the Villiot garden
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Christmas is approaching, and the garden teepee is being transformed into a festive Christmas tree! Several workshops were organized to bring this metamorphosis to life…Children from CLAJE (Centre Paris Anim de Villiot) made little snowmen from 2 wooden washers for … Lire la suite
Bercy pupils create stars for the Villiot garden tepee
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Every year, the tipi in the Villiot vegetable garden is transformed into a Christmas tree, adorned with plant-based Christmas decorations! As part of this animation, pupils from Bercy elementary school made stars by assembling bamboo branches with raffia. After painting … Lire la suite
Maracas recycled with children from the Bercy kindergarten
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Children from the Bercy kindergarten made unique, colorful maracas by reusing applesauce containers. To begin with, they applied a coat of varnish to the packaging to make it easier for the paint to adhere. They then chose a solid color … Lire la suite
Land Art under the pergola of the Traversine Bercy garden
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This afternoon, elementary school pupils created a magnificent piece of Land Art in their school garden. Using dried leaves, chestnuts and small sticks, they imagined and assembled a collective work of art. Everyone contributed in their own way, exchanging ideas … Lire la suite
Bercy children create leaf collage paintings
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Children from Bercy elementary school drew inspiration from their own interests to create their own paintings. After gluing the dried leaves to the paper, they drew around them to imagine unique shapes. One, for example, formed a soccer player, while … Lire la suite
Shapari Behzadi workshop
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Today, children from the school and CLAJE had the opportunity to meet Shapari Behzadi, a visual artist and teacher from Tehran. She organized a creative activity based on natural elements such as branches, leaves, straw and bundles. The activity involved … Lire la suite
Colouring activity at Bercy school
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As part of the extra-curricular activities at Bercy school, a colouring workshop was organised on the theme of “lucky charm” flowers by the Dessine l’Espoir association. After creating a model of their project, the children drew it on an A3 … Lire la suite
Arcimboldo-like self-portrait workshop by the children of CLAJE and elementary school of Bercy, Paris
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The children of the Centre Paris Anim’ (CLAJE) elementary school of Bercy realized their self-portrait in the style of Arcimboldo. After colouring fruits and vegetables, the children cut and glued them to form their own face.
Drawing workshop of garden with the children of the elementary school of Bercy, Paris
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Today, we asked the children of the Bercy primary schools to draw the vegetable garden of their dreams! They were able to organise their imaginary garden as they wished, by placing fruits, vegetables, animals, insects, compost, ponds…While waiting for spring..
Winter digital painting workshop with the children of the Bercy primary schools, Paris
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The children of the elementary school of Bercy made a card to wish a good Christmas to their close relations. They wrote on it, drew with felt pens, cut out and glued paper and stickers. Above all, after tracing their … Lire la suite
Playful discovery of insects with the children of the Bercy nursery school, Paris
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The children of the nursery school of Bercy in Paris were able to discover the various insects in the garden through colouring boards realised by the association. The children coloured in bees, ladybirds, butterflies, ants, earwigs, woodlice and grasshoppers: all … Lire la suite
Playful discovery of insects with the children of the elementary school of Bercy, Paris
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The children of the elementary school of Bercy in Paris were able to discover the various insects in the garden through colouring boards realised by the association. The insects were classified according to their role in a garden, namely pollinators, … Lire la suite
Autumn painting activity with the children of the Bercy primary schools, Paris
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We organised a painting activity using our stencils representing all kinds of leaves, fruits and vegetables. They were also able to use dried leaves to create various patterns. The children made many colourful paintings to take home!
Halloween modeling workshop with Double Face at the Traversine Villiot, Paris
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To celebrate Halloween, Dessine l’Espoir joined Double Face to allow the children of the residence Villiot Râpée to realize frightening heads of monsters. After a day spent modeling clay under the guidance of Zoé from Double Face, the children painted … Lire la suite
Colouring with the Lauris preschool at the Grand Potager
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The Lauris preschool children enjoyed a calm time to realize colourings in the Grand Potager of the Domaine de Fontenille. Sitting around the mandala, they coloured their own version of the beds forming a flower. After the visit to the … Lire la suite
Decoration of clay pots for Easter at Bercy school, Paris
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With the Easter holidays approaching, the Bercy primary school children decorated small clay pots in the shape of rabbits. They painted the pots in the colours of their choice. Then they formed the ears of the rabbit by cutting out … Lire la suite
Making candles for Grandma’s Day at Bercy School, Paris
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Happy Grandmothers’ Day ! Before leaving on holiday, the children of the Bercy school made candles to offer to their grandmothers. They painted small glass jars and decorated them with stickers, green or dead leaves collected in the school yard … Lire la suite
Decoration of clay pots and wooden signs at the claje, Paris.
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During the vacations, the children of the youth center of Villiot (Claje – Paris Anim) have decorated small clay pots and wooden signs. After painting a first layer with the colors of their choice, they then added colorful patterns and … Lire la suite
Future set-in-nature theatre is underway at the Traversine Villiot garden
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The Traversine garden will soon host a mini set-in-nature theatre ! First step: cutting out and colouring the paper templates that will bring to life all the stories that the children made up. Fairies, boares, feathers, pumpkin houses, she-warriors… that … Lire la suite
Paint on vegetal stamps by the Bercy nursery school’s students
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The Bercy nursery school students took part in an unusual painting activity. After drawing branches on paper sheets, they got to decorate them with multicolored fruits, by using lemons, bell peppers, zucchinis, onions, celery and artichoke leaves as stamps to … Lire la suite
Decoration of the bird boxes at the Grand Potager
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After having made the bird boxes that will soon be scattered around the Great Vegetable Garden, the children set about decorating them. To do this, they used materials found in nature such as dead leaves, small branches, moss and flowers. … Lire la suite
Drawing an hotel shelter
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elementary students were invited to draw an insect shelter EnregistrerEnregistrer
Collages at the Laafi center
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The children of Koudougou decorated tree leaves drawings by sticking metallic and colored stickers on them. These drawings will join the suitcase offered by the children of Koudougou to the children of the school of Bercy as part of the … Lire la suite
Children of Koudougou colorings
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In the context of “communicating classes”, the children of Laafi kindergarten in Koudougou colored local tree leaves, such as neem, jujubier, mango tree, drawn by a facilitator. These drawings are destinated to the children of the Bercy school preschool, in … Lire la suite
Creating a Memory game
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This afternoon at Roosboom children have created a Memory game on the theme of garden vegetables. This activity allow children to develop their creativity while providing them source of entertainment, and improving their memory and their knowledge of vegetables. EnregistrerEnregistrer
