Create a multi-handed painting

This short film, very pretty with its pastel tones and simple shapes, makes you want to draw, especially since several ideas can be explored:

• Use a mixture of drawings and collages to represent characters. We can start from the analysis of certain images from the short film. The head and body form two separate parts that children can cut out and glue. You can have fun with patterned papers for clothes. After gluing, it will be appropriate to draw the face, limbs and hair.
• Use the black felt-tip pen to draw a city, buildings... after having made the background with pastel ink or watercolor pencils.
• Work on the different representations of the Eiffel Tower. Find out on the Eiffel Tower website the artists who represented the Eiffel Tower. In the short film, it is drawn with simple black pencil lines. We can suggest to the students to find another way of representing the Eiffel Tower after having shown them different paintings by artists from which they can draw inspiration.

We can imagine that these different productions (city/characters/Eiffel Tower) come together on the same painting to form several common works. In this case, we can consider having the students work in groups: a group on the city, a group on the characters and a group on the Eiffel Tower. Provide time for discussion between students working together on the same painting to ensure consistency of production. In the end, it will be necessary to agree on the assembly of all the elements.

Then, we will be able to share with all the others: each group will be able to present their work and discover those of the other groups, which will be an opportunity to express their emotions, to compare the productions which will be different even if they all responded to the same instructions.