Though reprinted thousands of times and ultimately selling tens of millions of copies, first editions of The Very Hungry Caterpillar are rare in the dust-jacket in good condition. We would introduce guests to the materials and the concept of a project, but it was up to the guest to interpret and create the piece of artwork on their own.

After checking with me that it was big enough, they cut it out and used that to trace onto the back of their painted paper as many as they could. The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is a museum devoted to the art of the picture book and especially the children's book. Y., and his childhood in wartime Germany, this autobiography gives readers a glimpse at what shaped the artist's life, including essays on his work by his editors, a speech for the Library of Congress, and more than sixty full-color illustrations. The students were given a small pieces of blue and yellow Model Magic paper clay to roll and knead together to make green.Carle is a precise and energetic man whose large studio hums and clatters at one end with the high-tech whir of computers and scanners, and at the other with the old-fashioned rustling and scratching sounds the artist working with papers, pens, and brushes have generated for centuries. This project has been designed to be done over two sessions, but if needed, it can be extended to three sessions depending on the age group of the students and the complexity of the collage themes. As a child, Carle’s dad would take him for walks through meadows, memories which heavily influenced his illustrations.

Born in the United States, Eric Carle was taken as a six-year-old child by his parents back to their native country, Germany. Martin's eye had been caught by a striking picture of a red lobster that Carle had created for an advertisement. My senior year at UMass Amherst, I spent the spring interning at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. As Eric Carle later told the story, he was fiddling with a hole punch when he got an idea for a book about a book worm. Carle used tissue paper, tracing paper, pencils, glue, crayons, and colored pencils for his illustrations.Purtroppo esiste soltanto in lingua inglese per cui se non si ha dimestichezza con questa lingua se ne può avere soltanto un approccio superficiale.

Let’s say I want to create a caterpillar: I cut out a circle for the head from a red tissue paper and many ovals for the body from green tissue papers; and then I paste them with wallpaper glue onto an illustration board to make the picture. An agreeable overview of Carle’s life and work, a consideration of the genesis of his ideas, a look at how he fashions his collages, and admiring words from some of his colleagues. If you have any questions or have a technique that you use in your classroom with this project, please leave a comment! Collage art is created by cutting different pieces of paper into different shapes and creating a picture out of it. After the contest, the winning banner was hung alongside other submissions in Massachusetts before being exhibited in Children's Museums across the United States and Japan for the next three years.Preps have been learning about ‘diversity’ and that differences should not only be respected but celebrated!