Henri Rousseau and Tunnel Book

In October 2014, we learned about the artist Henri Rousseau.

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Here is a book to go with it 

(The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau),

but since my order had not arrived, 

we watched its book trailer on Youtube.

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We also talked about some of Rousseau's paintings,

mainly those with animals and jungle scenes.

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Here are two of them.

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The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897

The Dream, 1910

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You can also find many of his paintings here.

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For high resolution paintings that can be enlarged to see the detail,

click on the pictures in Wikipedia.

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During discussion, we talked about foreground, middle ground, and background.

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Also watched this video to understand the different layers.

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For hands-on project, we made tunnel books.

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Here is a good example of the structure of a tunnel book,

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I made some changes for mine, 

instead of having the closure coming out from the front,

I placed them coming out from the back.

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Here are some samples of the children's works.

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