Outer Space

A painting made by a 1st grader in art club... 

"It's in space and the space ship is passing the meteor and it's close to it but it doesn't hit it".

Creative clay

Here are some clay creations from Art Club last week. This is one student's family, complete with pets and dinner:

 And here is a hanging ornament with a neat geometric texture:

Beautiful work, as always.

A tower as big as Liz!

Their goal was to make a Kapla block tower as tall as me, and look! Mission accomplished.

(this tower has been brought to you by Peter and Brady)

A Bracelet Business

I wrapped pipe cleaners in yarn and braided them together to make these funky bracelets as a demo for an activity this afternoon. The kids at afterschool got totally into making them, and now have big plans to have a "business" selling them at recess!

Beautiful Bowls!

Here are the finished bowls the kids made in Art Club. Each one is unique and full of personality. I love the creative ways they kids mixed the materials!

Proud Puzzle-doers

Paper Mache Bowls

Today in art club we worked on the paper mache bowls we started last week. Now that they are hard and sturdy, they can be decorated in lots of ways, using all different materials...

Here are some shots of the decorating process:

Look at this happy face!

Next week, when the bowls are all dry, I'll snap some photos of the finished products (prepare to be impressed). Meanwhile, if you want to make our own paper mache bowl, I put together some directions after I taught a bowl-making workshop a few years ago in Chicago - you can find them right here.