The Mean Ant on a visit

At times when you cannot visit the gallery, the gallery will come to you piece by piece,  by our hardworking coworker, The Mean Ant! Each week, as long as we are advised to stay home, will Brigita Strnad, museum advisor, together with the Mean Ant, prepare artwork for children between the ages of 5 and 9, but can be solved by all of us if we will be bored.

Here is the first task! This time we will be thinking about shapes, colors, stripes and dots from the street. You can find the worksheet in this link, you can print it out or save it right from your computer. Tasks in the form of a teaching tool can be found in this link, and you can open them in the same format by clicking the boxes below.

She was the Mean Ant…

We all know her, but many do not know that the author of the poem The Harsh Ant is Branko Rudolf, the legendary first director of the Maribor Art Gallery. The first known publication of the poem dates back to 1955 (the year after the Maribor Art Gallery was founded) in the collection of poems for children Zamorček in ladjica, and since then the poem has been printed in numerous collections and independent editions. The poem has been set to music by the the composer Marijan Vodopivec and in 1971 it was played in the scene of the TV series Erazem and Wander. Since then, it has been known to all generations of children in Slovenia.