It May Be Cold Outside but the Art Room is Warm With Creativity!

Last week we started the BES Spring 2015 Art Club! These 24 students come to the art room after school every Monday until the first week of March. The first week students made their own sketchbooks to inspire their creativity and practice drawing more. I also gave them a 52 week drawing challenge to help spark ideas for them to draw. This week, I had so many of our art club students bring in their sketchbooks with the first week's challenge complete. They all seemed so eager to continue drawing so as you can imagine, this art teacher's heart was smiling with joy!

This week, students began prepping the surface for the recycled plastic bottle cap flower sculptures that will eventually go into the ground outside in front of the library window for all to see!
If you haven't started already....

PLEASE SAVE YOUR PLASTIC BOTTLE CAPS AND SEND THEM INTO THE ART ROOM FOR THIS PROJECT!

At the Art Extravaganza on Friday March 6th, families and students will be able to glue down some bottle caps onto these flower pieces for a hands on activity! I look forward to seeing with community collaboration complete because they are already looking great! Take a look at our art club students priming the wooden flower cut outs!

 

We will have 7 flower sculptures total!! :)

 

 

The 2 x 4s are for the flower stems that will go right into the ground!!

 

 

We have been doing some really awesome things in Kindergarten. Last week, students used clay to make pinch pots! We talked about where clay comes from and what it is made of. We talked about all of the things we use that are made out clay like certain cups, plates, and bowls. All of these things hold materials for us that we use! Students learned how to use their fine motor skills to create their awesome little pinch pots.

 

 

This week, kindergarteners are exploring the THREE MAGICAL COLORS (aka Primary Colors) in the art room! After an awesome magic trick revealing these three magical colors and the three colors they create when mixed together (secondary colors), students created some of their own magic by finger painting! Using only the primary colors, students blended them together to create new colors! Take a look at them in action... finger painting is always a fun day in kindergarten!

 

Students carefully used their "two magic fingers"! This helps to keep the mess at a minimum during finger painting ;)

 

 

What fun we have been having! It has also been nice to have another adult in the art room joining us from VCU School of the Arts. Chea Brown is my student teacher for the next two months and is already enjoying getting her hands dirty. I can't wait to see what units and lessons she has in store for our little beavers!