This was a yarn bomb in my city!! Check out the video. It is awesome! http://www.wrn.com/2010/09/knit-wits-yarn-bomb-state-street-video/
If you have not seen Deep Space Sparkle blog yet, and you are an art teacher, you must check it out! This is one of the first art blogs I started regularly watching for lesson ideas. There are so many great ideas here. You are in for a treat 🙂
Someone else posted about this free online course, so I thought I would join too to check it out. It looks like fun. Starts Oct. 18.
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These have been in our art room since I’ve arrived 5 years ago and we really don’t know what they are exactly for. My guess is that they are used to hold clay beads while being fired in the kiln? What do you think???
OH, painting tiles! How I love them!
I have a special art website just for the parents at my school. It is more specific and organized by grade level. We don’t have traditional grade arrangements at our school. Here is how our grades are set up: Nest– KindergartenPrimary– 1st gradeUpper Primary– 2nd gradeIntermediate– 3rd grade3/4s– 3rd and 4th grade mixed4/5s– 4th and 5th grade mixed5/6s–5th and 6th grade mixed Generally kids will enter in a unit and progress through the units in order. So, if they are … Read more…
I just discovered a fun blog from a kindergarten teacher who does lots of way cool art projects. These kids are so lucky to have such a creative teacher! I’m impressed with the felted balls she made with the kindergartners. Why have I been intimidated by teaching felting to kids? Plus she has such a cool name and it is her real name, lol. Meri Cherry’s Blog
While searching the internet for some clay how-to’s I found this picture. Woah! That’s crazy! It’s on About.com
At our church garage sale I picked up a large bag of pine cones for $2. I suppose I could have found pine cones on the ground, but hey, they were all in a bag right in front of me already. So, what to do with all of them? I’m looking for ideas on the internet. I want to find something to make with the kids at school. Little Miss Pine cones found here. Painting a Pinecone found here … Read more…
This blog shows pictures of a baby on top of towels arranged in an artful scene. They are so adorable!! These pictures are gorgeous, but they make me mad for two reasons. 1. My baby NEVER slept peacefully like that for the first 3 1/2 months. Like NEVER. I would always have to hold her in a sling or sleep with her in order to keep her sleeping. Even when she fell asleep and we gently transferred her to a … Read more…
