France-Ecole Maternelle Saint Exupéry – Visiting the artistic blue garden created by the artist Aline Rutily

On the 25th of May 22 children went to Saint Germain en Laye to discover the artistic blue garden created by the artist Aline Rutily. They had a sensorial approach : they could touch and smell the leaves of lavender, they could admire all the bleu flowers. They used mirrors to see the reflects, they used frames to focus on details, they used kaleïdoscopes to multiply the image.
Then with bleu wax chalk and color pencils they draw the flowers the blue garden.
At the end of this morning pupils spent few times in the children’s department of the library where they could see books on flowers, garden…