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#Bigartday17 is tomorrow in Texas. We had a big art time making cakes and pie in 5th grade this past 9 weeks. It was fun, it was messy, but I overheard many time, "this is the best project ever!" My inspiration was the lesson that Rita Martin posted on the Art Teacher Facebook page last year. I ordered the claycrete from Amaco that she recommended from School Speciality at the end of last year when I had some money left in my school spending account.  I ordered the large box and had some left over. I have 100 students.  I introduced the lesson using Wayne Thiebaud paintings and this  video .  On day one the students research the pie or cake they wanted to make. They also had to cut out a template from a cereal box that they brought and tape it together.  Use 3M tape, the cheap stuff didn't stay stuck.  I made several templates but a few made their own.  We also referenced this slide from the AOE You can play aro...

After a week of State STAAR testing, we are glad to be back on schedule and having specials again. My wonderful 2nd grade artists are finishing up their  Claus Oldenburg inspired relief sculptures.  This lesson took three class sessions. One the first day we view and discussed Oldenburg's Two Cheeseburgers . How did he make if look like it was warm and yummy?  Most of the kids said they were hungry now too.  Each student made a check list of 12 ingredients for their sandwich. We made the buns out of cardboard and put the items inside their manilla check list folder.(I only had a tracer for the buns so that they weren't too small.)  On the second day I bought out the cool art tools. I also opened the scrap box that had left over painted paper.  I pre cut construction paper in 4" x 6" papers.  I had construction paper crayons for them to use also. We also looked at more art works by Claes Oldenburg. ...