From

a CANVAS Facebook post*******************************************

In October, we held an art program (provided by the Fukasawa Art Institute)!

https://www.canvas.ws/kenkyujo/report/2020920in-1.php

Have you ever used a broom?

What kinds of brooms are there?

A broom for school, a broom for cleaning the balcony, and a broom for cleaning the desk.

There are all kinds of brooms—they come in all sorts of shapes, don't they?

So, have you ever made a broom?

What's it made of?

How do you make it?

■ Take it apart and rebuild it into something else

Today's materials are a straw hat and a tree branch.

How does a straw hat turn into a broom?

I took the straw hat apart piece by piece, and

Turn it into something else (a broom).

Use your hands and hold it down with your feet.

Which way should I pull it?

It keeps unraveling.

Just working away—it feels good.

■Natural Materials

Choose a branch to use as a broom handle.

Smooth, bumpy, straight, rough.

Look, touch, and smell.

Which one should I choose?

There are many different kinds.

What kind of tree is this?

　

■Quiet Work Time

The hat I took apart

I attach them one by one to the tree branches with tape.

Silently and carefully.

Is it almost done?

I'll try cleaning with the broom I made myself.

Do you find yourself thinking, “I wish I could do this differently”?

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It was our first in-person workshop in a long time.

A child who hums "Hmm, hmm, hmm~" while making something

A child who gets really excited about tearing a hat to pieces and keeps tearing it apart, wanting to do it more and more

A child who ties branches together to make them longer so it's easier to clean

A child who connected three tree branches to form the shape of a person and made a "kanji broom."

All sorts of creations were coming to life.

See you next month!

*The tree branches were ones we received from Niwa no Mochiden~

That's Professor Mochida from last year's (June 2019) "Mysterious Walk at the University of Tokyo."