Day 9 in the 10 days that was.....GOMA

On day 9 we headed off to the city for the day mainly to visit the gallery of Modern Art, we were lucky enough to have another homeschooling family come along with us. Between us we had 6 children, that's enough for an excursion.

We are aiming to visit GOMA each time the exhibition changes, as it has proved in the past to be good value(its free unless you want to go into the separate exhibition-but always check if its suitable for little ones). Its a great educational and hands on cultural experience for the children and just a lovely relaxing day out for all. The last time we went it was the 21st century and this time it is Surrealism.
J and R always get excited when we say we are going to the "city". We are by no means country people but they still class the big smoke as an exciting adventure and big day out! I love this.

We started off in the children's area where there were quite a few tables/activity centres set up with lots for the kids to do. We started each activity by reading about the history of the art and the concept behind it, followed by the directions of what to do.

 

These were fun. They started with paper that had 2 ink blobs on them. They had to turn the page around till they could see something or think of something they could create from it. We talked about how you can also do this looking at clouds.

C loved this one. They had an A3 size blank paper and lots of small card. They could rip the pieces and glue them to make their own piece of art.

We didn't take any art home as the kids just wanted to hang their art up on the wall. They loved seeing their art on display for all to see and appreciate.

This one was fun. The children picked a landscape and then had lots of different cut outs of various objects/animals that they could glue on.

J's

R's

 Building Sculptures!!!

Once we finished all the hands on activities, we stopped for a snack by the river. The kids had a quick run around.



Then we wandered the gallery, appreciating the different art works.

We finished the day with a walk to southbank for afternoon tea and a play!

Thats a BIG day for a 19month old!