My 100th post: a Summer School reflection

Today was Summer School Pay Day. Woo Woo!

I taught a 15 day series of classes called Art Fantasy, which was an enrichment class for kiddo's going into 1st grade next month. I had free choice on the lessons,

but I did have a limited budget.

The classes were an hour and a half long and I had two classes a morning. I would love to work until 1 pm everyday, but an hour and a half of art for

6 year olds is stretching it for their attention spans.

A big hurdle for me was hauling all of the art supplies to a middle school biology room for the summer session. ( and back to my school)

The kids had to stand most of the time, but we made new friends!

The last lesson did with these kids was really a hit!

I based the lesson on the Eric Carl book, " A House for Hermit Crab."

I also supplemented the lesson with this YouTube,

Remember, we had an hour and a half!

The students made the shell first with crayola chalk marbling technique. We did this on

9 x 12 sulfur paper using crayola chalk shavings on top of water. Let is dry!

We drew and spiral together and then they were OTO!

I gave them pre-torn paper for the sand and a 12 x 18 background paper. They could use a variety of materials to finish!

I have three weeks left to be somewhat lazy, shop, clean out drawers, shop, pay bills, go to water aerobics and rest up for the new school year!

Some of the other lessons that I managed to photograph from Art fantasy can be found below. I did not take very many pictures for some reason...most of the lessons were very open ended, and some were very Pinterestly!

Happy 100th post!

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Kandinsky Trees

My first graders really need help with their fine motor skills this year. After completing a very successful Kandinsky Concentric Circle painting lesson noted below, I followed up this past week with a tree inspired lesson. Once again, I found my inspiration from Jen Draw the Line At and I used her lesson suggestions for this very successful lesson. My student's used Crayola Metallic crayons instead of the Crayola Construction paper crayons and we used juice lids for some bigger circles in the stamping part of the lesson. Day 1 On day two constructed the trees and circle leaves. I passed out a 12 x 4 inch piece of black paper and had two different sizes of square paper for the circles. Yes, this was a challenge since we did not use pencil, but we drew with our scissors. Day 2 I will definite repeat lesson for next year! I will be displaying these soon. Displayed artwork is posted HERE ...

Monet's Pond

The Dallas Museum of Art has a wonderful Monet Painting in a beautiful gold frame which inspired me to create this lesson for our Big Art Day which is fast approaching in Texas schools. For our Big Art day this year I have a Theme....Circle Art! Themes are the way to go when organizing events. I love this new lesson that was inspired by one of my favorite artists, and two favorite bloggers: Painted Paper and Cassie Stephen's who also use themes. I ordered the 10 inch cardboard circle rounds for this lesson, the same size Cassie used in her Dot Day Art . School Specialty has various sizes. The kids loved painting on this canvas instead of paper. We read about Monet's garden and look at prints of his masterpieces. I even show them some of my pictures that I took when I visited his garden in France. On day one, we painted the pond and the water ...

Clay and Weaving!

I'm brave, I tried a new lesson again.... I can say as we are completing these clay frames that you have to follow some basic rules or you will have broken frames. We have had only 3, but I did make extras. My 4th graders tackled this lesson with stoneware clay, and finished them with oil pastels, one color of watercolor paint and I painted modge podge on them when dry. The texture is the key part of the coloring process! I have rollers and rubber texture mats. At least pencil think and more than 2 fingers in width. You need some lid tracers and a pin tool. Don't try to cookie cutter it. I strongly recommend 15 or 19 holes punched with a straw. You must have an odd number!! If they go hole craze, pop out the clay from the straw and plug the holes. I found the directions for weaving the warp threads here on Cassie Stephen's blog. I am also doing her plate weaving at the same time with...

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