Reduce, Reuse, RECYCLE through ART!!

I don't know if you have heard but we are collecting plastic bottle caps here at CSES for the art room!  During the SOL art resource schedule, students K-5 will be collaborating to create large flower sculpture murals using these plastic bottle caps.  We have been collecting since winter break and look how many we already have!!

Did you know you can not recycle plastic bottle caps?  That is a WHOLE LOT of plastic that would have been thrown away.  With this project, we are teaching our Dolphins that recycling is good for our Earth and that there are many creative things we can do with what we think is "trash".  I am so excited to see this "trash" turn into beautiful art that will stay at CSES and make our school brighter all year long!

Thank you Dolphin parents for giving us your plastic bottle caps!!  

KEEP THEM COMING!!! 

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And we are BACK!

... For now?  With all of this time missed with snow days, our art resource schedule is WACKY to say the least.  And just as I start to get them all back on track... a new storm is brewing!  At least I had one whole week to introduce some new units and get our artists starting on some new materpieces!

Take a look at the artwork in the main hallway from our last unit.  The big idea was CULTURE!  Can you tell?  Talk to your students about culture and see what they can teach you about the importance of art in every culture!

Now we have all (started) to move on to our new big idea which is ENVIRONMENT!  We are looking at all of the different ways that artists are inspired from their environment.  The projects are ranging from still lifes to landscapes to portraits and even recycled art!  Take a look at some students getting started. I could tell they sure have missed the art room... and I have sure missed them as well!

And since February is Black History Month, I saved a bulletin board to display some of the work of a few famous African American Artists that have inspired some of my work and some of  the lessons I teach our little artists.

Come back soon to see how we are progressing in our Environment unit and 

STAY WARM FOLKS!!