Barcelona Archives - Molly and the Magic Suitcase https://mollyandthemagicsuitcase.com/tag/barcelona/ Explore the World! Fri, 09 Jun 2017 16:16:39 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://mollyandthemagicsuitcase.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-icon-32x32.jpg Barcelona Archives - Molly and the Magic Suitcase https://mollyandthemagicsuitcase.com/tag/barcelona/ 32 32 Meet Our Friends! https://mollyandthemagicsuitcase.com/childrens-books/meet-our-friends/ Thu, 08 Jun 2017 16:31:41 +0000 https://mollyandthemagicsuitcase.com/?p=1095 One of our favorite parts of traveling is making new friends. Over the next month, Michael and I are going to feature some of our friends from around the world. This is our friend Francesca who we met in Barcelona. Francesca is an artist, and she loves to paint, draw, and sculpt. Lucky she lives [...]

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]]> One of our favorite parts of traveling is making new friends. Over the next month, Michael and I are going to feature some of our friends from around the world.

This is our friend Francesca who we met in Barcelona. Francesca is an artist, and she loves to paint, draw, and sculpt. Lucky she lives in such a wonderfully artistic city! She even made the shirt she has on here. Everywhere she goes in Barcelona, Francesca can see art – from street vendors, built into the sidewalks, and even in the beautifully designed buildings.

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]]> Beautiful Mosaics https://mollyandthemagicsuitcase.com/childrens-books/beautiful-mosaics/ Thu, 04 May 2017 14:35:57 +0000 http://mollyandthemagicsuitcase.com/?p=1051 Have you ever seen a mosaic? A mosaic is a piece of art made by arranging colored tiles. A great place to see mosaic artwork is in Barcelona, Spain. A famous architect named Antoni Gaudi made tons of buildings and sculptures using mosaics. Our favorite is the giant lizard in Park Guell - his name [...]

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]]> Have you ever seen a mosaic? A mosaic is a piece of art made by arranging colored tiles. A great place to see mosaic artwork is in Barcelona, Spain. A famous architect named Antoni Gaudi made tons of buildings and sculptures using mosaics. Our favorite is the giant lizard in Park Guell – his name is El Drac (The Dragon in English), and he’s enormous.

Michael and I like to make our own mosaic patterns and pictures out of construction paper. Try your own and see what beautiful things you can make!

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