For queens and kings

YOU'RE PRECIOUS.
When I was home in the last holidays, my father did show me some his paintings he made recently. Then we started to spontaneously tranform the kitchen in an art room and started to paint. Some time before I saw the graffity picture on the way to work and thought this would be nice to use as an idea. Well, in thoughts about this work the sentence "You're precious." came to my mind. And the crown as a symbol should be for everyone, not only for princess-like girls or powerful kings.

Some weeks later we went to a theatre play with one of my workprojects. The kids loved the play and so did I. It was the story of
"Where the wild things are". As the wild things make the boy to their king, they give him a crown. So afterwards we were making these crowns out of toilet rolls.

DIY: Treasure Map

For my work with children I always need new ideas to make up exciting stories. Usually I think of things I have at home anyway and how I can use them to do something by myself.
So one evening I ran out of ideas, so my boyfriend and me were brainstorming and finally he came up with this idea: Making a message in a bottle and creating a treasure map with the help of stamps. We really had fun to make the treasure map by painting and stamping pirates, ships and a treasure. Coffee, burned edges of the paper and crumpling the whole thing made the look complete. I haven't done that since my art class back then in school.

The task for the children was to "read" the message in the bottle. It can be read as a short comic-story about pirates on a ship who come to an island, where a monkey gives them a treasure map. In the end they went for treasure hunting. Afterwards the kids could "write" down their own messages or stories with the stamps. That was also an exercise to practice fine motor skills.
Of course I pretended to have found the message in the bottle at the beach and that the treasure map is really old and should not be touched, otherwise it would fall into a million pieces.