One of the things I like most about our son’s kindergarten, is the different events they arrange during the year. The end of school year recital where the children perform, the summer concert, the sports day and then in autumn the art exhibition. This year a theme of our son’s class has been play with recyclables. He has brought empty tissue boxes and PET-bottles, and brought home submarines and cars and rockets made by the scrap materials. He has been very proud of his creations, and I have taken great care not to destroy them while we are biking home. As the recyclable art has piled up at home, my wife and I have tried to suggest that maybe we could actually recycle a few of the items, but so far they are living in a big big cardboard box standing in our living room.
The art exhibition was held a Saturday morning and all the children came with their parents and proudly showed what they had made. There were different paintings based on books, activities, vegetables, there were sand sculptures and the whole kindergarten was decorated with different kinds of art installations. But the pièce de résistance was without doubt the self portrait sculptures made from recyclables. Our son had made a figure with toes and fingers and everything, sitting at a desk with a car in front of him. Our son was very proud and we were very impressed.
It was such a pleasant event to be part of, and it is such a happy experience to see the joy of the children and to know that kindergarten life is so full of colors, happy energy and creativity. And now that the art exhibition is over, maybe we can begin to free the space in our living room that since summer has been the home of household recyclables, and start to focus on a new project.
