In Ideal Exhibition, our 3rd and 5th grade students are exploring the world of Hervè Tulle through collaboration and individual multi-media art making. Through drawing, painting, and sculpture, the students create two and three dimensional installation pieces such as murals, totems, and mobiles. Our resident parent-teacher Cecil Servigon has offered up a few fun art games that families can try at home during our Friday evening “Disconnect 2 Connect” on February 28th from 6-9.
1. THE DICE GAME
Draw any shape on a piece of paper. Throw your dice once. The number you throw is the number of eyes you’re going to draw in your shape.
Throw your dice a second time! Now you’re going to draw that many mouths.
Throw it again! This time, it’s for the number of noses.
Now let’s throw to see how many arms you’re going to draw!
And this time, it’s for the legs!
Shall we throw again for the ears?
And to finish off, let’s draw the hair. Here are the guidelines:
1-2 = a bit of hair
3-4 = normal
5-6 = lots of hair
Now you have a monster!
By 5th grader Benjamin
2. LINES
Herve Tullet’s first technique: drawing lines. Horizontal, vertical lines, crossing and overlaying them or adding shapes to create movement and texture. Then by tearing the paper, making a hole in one page, and overlapping it with another page featuring different lines, allowing surprising compositions to emerge.
This layering and tearing technique encourages children to think beyond traditional drawing, embracing imperfections and unexpected outcomes as part of the creative process.
3. TRAFFIC JAM 
Two players place objects as obstacles on a blank sheet of paper. Each picks a different-colored marker (or crayon/pastel) as their “car” and navigate from point A to B, experimenting with colors, thickness, and marks. Once the obstacles are removed, they add buildings, trees, and people, transforming their paths into a city!
3rd and 5th graders in action during the Traffic Jam game
4. PAINT THE MUSIC 
Play short (1-2 minute) snippets of different types of music—soft, energetic, upbeat, soothing, dramatic, playful, cinematic. Listen and paint what the music inspires you on a big roll of paper as a mural or individual piece for smaller format work. You can use tempera paint using brushes and sponges, and liquid watercolors with straws.
Close your eyes to fully feel the music before painting.
P.S. 11 students painting to music