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n ntmpinarea primverii, copiii de la Afterschool-ul Clubul Universul Cunoaterii din

Urlai au mers n excursie la Atelierul de Olrit de la Piscu, atelier ce face parte din cadrul colii
Agathonia a Asociaiei Gaspar, Baltasar i Melchior cu care colaborm pe partea de workshopuri
creative.
Dup o scurt relaxare n grdina colii, copiii sunt invitai n sala de clas mpreun cu
doamnele nvtoare care-i nsoesc. Pentru unii dintre ei este prima excursie iar pentru toi
dintre ei este prima dat cnd trec pragul unui atelier de olrit.
Se aeaz n bnci i ncepe lecia de introducere n ale olritului. Ei af c strbunii notri
foloseau vase de lut pentru mai toate activitile legate de buctrie: se mnnca din strchini,
se bea din mici pahare de lut, iaurtul i borul erau pregtite n oale de lut.
nva lucruri eseniale despre prelucrarea i arderea lutului, i stnd aa n bnci, se vede
cum ard de nerbdare s se apuce de lucru. i doamnele nvtoare sunt ncntate la gndul c
cei mici vor face ceva inedit.
Se ncepe prin modelarea unui obiect de lut folosind roata olarului. Meterul i ncurajeaz i le
vorbete blnd. Cei mai mici se uit puin strmb la lutul n care urmeaz s-i bage minile,
semn c nu prea s-au jucat n noroi, dar ncet, ncet prind curaj i se bucur de obiectul care a
luat form cu ajutorul minilor lor. Este o lecie scurt i practic de folosit roata.
Apoi, folosindu-i creativitatea i talentul artistic copiii trec la pictarea unui sfenic n linii
i culori primvratice. Rou, galben, buline, dungi, tot felul de modele apar pe micile obiecte.
Urmeaz linogravur (tehnic de reproducere i de multiplicare a unui desen, obinut
prin imprimarea unei plci de linoleum). Avnd ca tem venirea primverii, copiii deseneaz
buchete i vase cu fori cum se pricep ei mai bine. E o atmosfer plcut: toat lumea
meterete.
La sfritul atelierului de creaie cu toii am plecat mulumii i fericii: avem felicitri
speciale pentru mmici pentru c numai mine nu-I 8 martie, vase pictate n care s punem
primii ghiocei, vase de lut cu care s ne mndrim c au ieit din mnuele noastre de copii i o zi
minunat de care s ne amintim mult timp de acum ncolo.

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Greeting the spring, children of the Afterschool Club The universe of knowledge from
Urlati went on a trip to the Pottery Workshop at Piscu, workshop which is part of the Agathonia
School of Association Gaspar, Melchior Baltasar that we are collaborating with on the creative
workshops.

After a brief relaxation in the schools garden, children are invited into the classroom
together with the teachers accompanying them. For some of them it is the first trip and for all
of them it is the first time when they footstep into a Pottery Studio.
They sit in the benches and the introduction to pottery class starts. They find out that
our ancestors were handling clay vessels for almost all activities relating to the kitchen: they
ate from clay porringers, they drank from small glasses of clay, yogurt and borsch were
prepared in pots of clay.
They learn things about essential processing and burning of clay, and standing in the benches,
you can sense they are eager to get to work. And the teachers are thrilled at the thought that
children would do something like never before.
They start by modeling a clay object using the potter's wheel. Weathermaker
encourages them and speaks them softly. The smallest of them look slightly with a wry smile at
the clay in which theyll put their hands, as a sign that they didnt play enogh in the mud, but
slowly, slowly they get the courage and enjoy the object which took form under their hands. It
is a short and practical lesson using the pottery wheel.
Then, using their creativity and artistic skills children are moving on to painiting a vessel
with lines and springy colors. Red, Yellow, bullet points, stripes, all sorts of models appear on
the small objects.
After, we have linogravura (technique of reproduction and multiplication of a drawing,
obtained by printing on a motherboard linoleum). Having spring as a creative theme, children
draw bouquets and pots with fowers, the way they know better. It's a pleasant atmosphere:
everybody works on something.
At the end of the creative workshop we all left relieved and happy: we have special
greeting cards for our mothers cause very soon it will be the 8th of March, painted vessels in
which to put our first snowdrops, jars of clay we are proud of making with our own child hands,
and a beautiful day for us to remember long time from now.