Did some "Batik" with Grade 3!

First students drew leaves 
large on a 9x12 paper and went over lines with sharpie.
I emphasized "overlapping."
Then they "drew" over their 
lines onto muslin with with glue.
Next came the painting with watered down acrylic paint.
After they dried I soaked the fabric, removed the glue, and ironed them!

Grade 2 Pinwheels for Peace

The clean artroom!

It won't stay like this, but I'm liking the layout!

"Summa" Stuff

I read on pintrest (of course) that you could wash your scissors in the dishwasher. Well I brought home my whole box of classroom scissors and washed them. When I was cleaning out my art room in June I found scissors in the craziest places! Oh those students!

I really want a kiln... so I did this! Art teachers - What do you think?

https://www.gofundme.com/23kr6txg

Link to Chelmsford MA newest "Spotlight on the Arts"

http://cvp.telvue.com/player?id=T01497&video=275076

Grade 1 Animal Drawing

Students each got a small sandwich bag with a plastic toy animal in it

Next students did a drawing WITHOUT looking in the bag!  They had just a white paper and thin sharpie.










The next part of this drawing exercise was to take
the animal out of the bag, set up the animal in front
of them and do a BLIND contour drawing
WITHOUT LOOKING at the PAPER this time!
The last drawing was done by just doing both:
looking at the animal AND the paper


They cut out the animals a little bigger than their drawing and created their backgrounds. I love the effect!!