Using beans, peas, and lentils, we created circular "Mandala" designs!
Animal Pinch Pots
This week we got to play with clay!
We made animal pinch pots and learned all about how to make a sturdy bowl, attach clay pieces to each other, and add textures.
A sea turtle in progress:
A froggy in progress:
Adding textures:
They will take a few days to completely dry, then I will load them in the kiln!
Recycled Masks
Our paper mache masks came to life this week! Look at all the different ways the students chose to paint them:
Paper Mache Masks!
This week we got started on a very exciting, multi-week project - creating our own, unique, paper mache masks using found materials! Here are some of the recycled items I brought for the kids to use:
Each student got a heavy-duty paper plate to use as the foundation of their mask. Then they played around with the materials and brainstormed how they'd like their mask to look.
Some students chose to make "human" masks, while others did animals, robots, and monsters!
Here is one mask with all it's features attached, right before we started the paper mache step - this one is "a surprised alien":
Once the features were securely attached with masking tape, we mixed up our paper mache paste (3 cups of water and three cups of flour) and started to get messy! We covered our masks with strips of newspaper dipped in the paste! Here is a mask with an eye that opens and closes!
And here is a robot with a crazy-cool "electric eye" (made from a colored popsicle stick and a test tube):
They will dry and harden until next week, when we will paint them.
I can't wait to see the finished products!
Tissue Collage Name Signs
Today was the first meeting of the Friday art club group! We used the same technique as the Monday group to make tissue paper collages.
After each student made a few collages and we still had time left, we decided to turn them into the letters of our names to make these signs:
Didn't they turn out well!?
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