Landscape Painting Vista in Reggio Italy!

Reggio Emilia, Italy: Two LARGE toddler paintings merged into one mural landscape!

Reggio 'documentation' of the process-within-the-product!

Reggio, Italy: Toddler 'feet' painting process documented in photographs

Toddler friends, painting with their feet in Reggio Italy

REGGIO EMILIA, ITALY!!!  
Here I am as my tour of the building continues in yet another toddler classroom space in the new national childcare center in Reggio. Their mural creating a "landscape window scene" is documented in photographs again. This time, two different sensory painting experiences have been spliced into one final product-display for their bulletin board. The 'blue' painting was created with chubby little fingers and the paint as media to be explored. Notice that the toddlers are 'standing' to paint their blue finger exploration with the paper affixed to the wall.  


The 'green' painting is created with wobblie-wittle feeties walking thru the paint (paper placed easily on the floor.) Then the teachers have merged the two experiences into one final communal finished product: the landscape vista above, complete with window tissue paper curtains, pulled back with curtain tie-backs. Cute.

I LUV the way the photographs are merged together with the completed mural!
The perfect connection between process and product. The photos interspersed with the art are seamlessly woven in -- for even the casual observer, days or weeks later. Parents and tourists alike can appreciate the fun + energy that was the original creation. Click here to see all of my blog-posts from my amazing day in Reggio, Italy.

This post has been added to a Sensory Play over at Teach Preschool.




I'm THRILLED to add this post to the first ever(!!) linkie party at PreK+K Sharing on the topic of PAINTING. Click on the button to go back to all of those amazing ideas.