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 by analysing 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, you then 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. On the Eiffel Tower's website, discover [the artists who have depicted the Eiffel Tower].(https://www.toureiffel.paris/fr/le-monument/art-et-tour-eiffel) In the short film, it is drawn with simple black pencil lines. We can invite students to find another way of depicting the Eiffel Tower after showing them various paintings by artists they can take inspiration from.

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 could have 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 keep the work consistent. In the end, everyone will need to agree on how to put all the pieces together.

Then, the class can share their work: each group presents its piece and sees those of the other groups, which will be an opportunity to express their emotions, to compare the results, which will differ even though they all followed the same brief.