I know one of the things I enjoy most about visiting schools is seeing all the beautiful artwork and how children can all start at with the same instructions and have such amazing creativity within their own piece of artwork.  With Covid-19, this is just one more aspect of sharing our school community experience that needs to be reimagined.

As a class, we read the book, Beautiful Hands by Kathryn Otoshi and Bret Baumgarten.  The artwork is beautifully colourful and all done in handprints.  The simple text explores how people can have an impact, be creative, and demonstrate love without needing to touch each other.

After a class discussion, we then went outside and explored painting with our hands, both as handprints and exploring how acrylic paints blend through finger painting.  Once dried we cut out our handprints to make our own beautiful hands, communal artwork.

In case it’s hard to read, the bulletin board reads,

With Covid-19, we can’t hold hands but we can learn, create and play together!

Big Learning Idea:

Creative experiences involve an interplay between exploration, inquiry, and purposeful choice.