Any art teacher out there will be able to relate to the excitement of receiving a box of supplies you’ve ordered! It’s like Christmas time!! I am so excited about this new idea I read about on the Getty Art teacher listserve. Clogged glue bottles were the bane of my existence. The little glue bottles with the orange tops constantly got clogged and stuck and you just could not get the glue out without a long and yucky soaking process. … Read more…
In November the students are learning about the characteristics and functions of Alaskan masks as well as the cultural traditions of Native Alaskans. They are making a 3-D mask using typical characteristics— animal or human features, fur, feathers, appendages, hoops around the mask.
Here are a few of the final glazed pocket pots. Kids were in grades K-6. It was an afterschool class. For full directions, see earlier post about this project. Yay! I love them!
This was another good lesson I found on someone’s blog. Claim it if it was yours.. sorry can’t remember who. It was an old Halloween lesson.
Kids painting in my classroom
Turkeys!I found this lesson on Mrs. Art Teacher’s blog: http://applesloveorangespdx.blogspot.com/search/label/turkey Thanks for the fun idea!! I don’t normally do crafty-type projects with my art classes, but these were so cute. At the beginning of the year, the kindergartners need a lot of practice cutting, so this project helped with that skill. 1. I had predrawn various sized circles and then photocopied them onto construction paper.2. The children chose 5 circles and cut them out. I passed them out one at … Read more…
I am not a sewer, let’s just put that right out there. I think it is so fun though to use the sewing machine as a tool for collages. I just started doing it and wow, is it so much more fun to use a sewing machine that actually works as opposed to a junky one that does not work half the time. My art is imperfect. There is no way around it. I can’t sew a straight line, I … Read more…
To connect with the Science, the Primaries are learning about how artists can use recycled and cast off materials to make art. We are watching a video about an artist who goes to the scrap and junkyard to find art materials. We are making our own mask made out of scraps: bottle caps, wood pieces, plastic parts. Reading Rainbow Stay Away From the Junkyard hilarious! We used these donated medicine lids.
This is a dreamcatcher ornament that will be sent to the Governor’s Mansion in Madison, WI for the Christmas tree. A group of kids in a 3rd/4th grade class made this.
Someone else posted about this, but I think it is so cool! This is a group of 6 women who make art and exhibit together, called the Art Divas. ART DIVAS
Today I held an after school clay class for grades K-5. I had 11 kids sign up and we made pocket pots. These are so fun! After painting them, we will attach a wire to the top and they can hang on the wall to hold items like keys or money. I took pictures of the kids as they worked. Roll out a slab of clay. Trace an oval template and cut out. Cut a straight line across the oval, … Read more…
These are all 8 1/2 x 11″ with all sorts of paints, inks, collages papers and pictures. I decided to start working in this size format and decided to put all these pages in regular clear binder sleeves and then put them in a regular binder. I got sick of futzing with the scrapbook binders.
The Governor’s Mansion in Madison sent us a call for ornaments made by 4th graders based on a book. These ornaments will be hung on a large Christmas tree in the mansion. Only one per classroom could be submitted. As a group, several of the students made this dream catcher. The 3/4s read the book Time of the Eagle, by Stephanie Golightly Lowden and made a creative dream catcher to represent the book. It is a great tie-in to their … Read more…
