Claude Monet’S house and gardens activity booklet

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...... Who are you, Monet?! Claude Monet moved Claude Monet was born to Giverny in 1883. in Paris in 1840. He grew up in Normandy and started painting For over 40 years, this at the age of 17. He enjoyed house and its gardens depicting landscapes, scenes were where he lived Welcome to of everyday life… and painting my home! and created his art in the open air. In his pictures, he pieces. After he died, sought to capture the impression of the moment, the effects of it was Blanche Monet light and colour, the variations Hoschede who looked a subject could have depending after the house and on what time of day and season gardens. Nowadays, it was. He painted small dabs the Monet Foundation of colour along others. These coloured “spots” blend in when manages this you look at the canvas from afar! enchanting place…

GAME 1 Now it is your turn to play! Enter the house and make your way to the living room-workshop. The paintings provide insight as to what Monet’s favourite themes were. Thanks to this booklet, discover Among them, 4 paintings depict Monet’s house and gardens water lilies, called “nymphéas” while having a fun time! (white water lilies) in French. Allow the frog to lead the way and fi nd the answers to the One of them has an original shape: which one? questions featured in this booklet… Circle the right shape! After touring the rest of the upstairs fl oor, go back down to explore GAME 3 the dining room. Back in Monet’s day, painting k ROA y! C furniture yellow was a y e very modern statement! k Monet loved i r Japanese art, like C many artists of the day. What is the name He collected prints of this work Hokusai and owned over 200 of them! A family home his workshop there. Alice looked created which you In 1883, Monet came across after the house and the children can see on one the house in Giverny somewhat divided their time between of the walls? by chance when out on a walk. life in the open air and the It was love at fi rst sight! many guests who came to visit He moved in there with them… The whole family felt his second wife, Alice, and their comfortable in this eight children. Behind the pink lively and colourful façade and its green shutters lies house! an interior which was modern for its day. Monet soon set up GAME ------4 Guess what it is called GAME 2 thanks to this code: Step into the kitchen. = E = H =A Monet chose its blue colour, yet never set foot inside Claude Monet and his wife each had = T = V = W their own bedroom. In Monet’s, you this room: it was may admire the desk which is adorned the cook’s territory! with scores and musical instruments. How many pans Which of these FLUTE can you see hanging instruments • VIOLIN on the wall? is not to be PIANO 9 12 found? • • 6 • • The “Clos Normand” Depending on what season of the year you grounds tour Monet’s house, fl owers in the garden Monet was a gardening enthusiast GAME 6 will be different. and a fl ower lover. He used his knowledge as a painter to create Among these photos, circle the flower(s) perspectives, enhance the house’s you can see. beauty and make use of shadows and light… On his grounds known as the “Clos Normand”, he had most trees cut down to have them replaced by fl owerbeds. Each bed featured one colour only. And when viewed as a whole, they called to mind a painter’s palette! n - s t - r t - - m r . s . d - ff - d - l t . l . p

Place the right-coloured vowels in the right position Help the frog find its way rikey to find out their name(s). GAME out of the “Clos C C 5 R Normand” grounds! O I E I A I Nowadays, U O k U

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! A A inspiration from Monet’s O U paintings to arrange light and colour effects within the garden. Find where the underground passage is GAME 7 to get to the water garden!

Clue: prick To your mind, up your this passage enables ears! you to go under: a railway line • a river • a road The water garden Monet was fascinated by Which animal are you the effects light and refl ections unlikely to see in the pond? GAME could have on water. In 1893, 9 he purchased a plot of land at the back of the “Clos Normand” grounds, across the railway line. There he designed a “water garden”, with a pond Decipher this rebus and a Japanese bridge. At the to find out! ------bottom of the pond, he planted white water lilies. He enjoyed entertaining his guests in this garden and spent hours contemplating… and painting it! GAME 8 rike C y C GAME R 10 O To distinguish it A Each of these photos depicting k

from the red which y the bridge was taken during ! was traditionally used a different season. Connect each in Japan, Monet painted photo to the right season! his Japanese bridge green!

Spring Spot the 5 differences 1 Summer 3 there are between the Autumn bridge and its reflection Winter in the water!

2 4 The water lily workshop Nowadays it accommodates Which animals have taken up the gift shop, but back in Monet’s residence in the garden? GAME day, it was the third workshop 12 , Musée Marmottan Monet. he set up in his house at Giverny. Walk to the far end of the This workshop was very spacious: “Clos normand” grounds and 49 feet high, 75 feet long and 39 then back up to the water lily Nymphéas, effet du soir feet wide. These measurements workshop to find out! enabled Monet to paint pictures of an unusual size. This was where he painted his Water Lilies on large panels which were In the Water Lily workshop, you can see attached to the walls. When GAME 13 copies of pictures Monet painted here. placed alongside each other, they Reassemble this picture formed a 305-foot long décor! 1 by connecting each 2 piece to its correct position on the puzzle. GAME Walk through the underground 11 passage once again to go back to the “clos normand” grounds. 5 Among all these flowers

surrounding you, draw 3 your favourite one here.

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You may use “the pictures Monet painted y ! original” work inside this workshop are that can be seen on display in the “Musée Marmottan” and “Musée on the workshop de l’Orangerie”, wall for guidance! in Paris. games answers

1 Circle. 2 Piano. 10 Spring: 4; summer: 3; autumn: 1; winter: 2. 3 The Wave. 4 12. 12 Hens! 5 13 1 4 6 3 2 1

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4 6 5 Nymphéas , Musée Marmottan Monet. 6 Nasturtium; rose; daffodil; tulip

7 A road.

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