Art Club Shirts Part II

This week Art Club finished making their T-Shirts by adding stenciling designs!  The students had so much fun adding the final touches to their t-shirts and making them unique!  

Click here to see the First Day of Tye Dye

Monster Mania in the Making!

School Spirit Art Club is off to work on their first project... MONSTERS!

The students are making big monsters to help decorate for the book fair!  I can hardly wait to see them all done!! 

                                         

Students looked at a variety of monsters, played a monster Game, and then began creating!  

Tye Dye

                                                       First Step of Art Club Shirts!

This year I am having two art clubs and as our first project we are going to make Art Club Shirts! 

So this week we prepared our shirts and tye dyed!  

The students watched youtube videos on different ways to rubber band the shirts and then we went outside to tye dye!  

The students got beautiful results- so bright and vibrant!  In the next few weeks we will decide what we want the shirts to say and prepare to paint them!

Here is a great video on how to make a spiral Tye Dye Shirt!

Monster Mania!!!

This past week, I introduced Oregon artist James DeRosso to my students.  They all had something to say about his silly monster sculptures!    

             

Every grade will be making a variation of Monsters, but 4th and 5th Graders will be making monsters out of clay just like James DeRosso!  I am lucky enough to have a Kiln at my school and now that I have gotten used to it over the past year, I am ready to put it to a lot of use!  

This class watched the video of James DeRosso and then watched as I demonstrated how to make a Pinch Pot.  I showed them how we are going to take the pot, turn it on its side and the opening becomes the mouth!  

We went over the 4 S's 

Scratch
Slip
Secure
Smooth 

 Students attached monster teeth, eyeballs, horns etc to their heads.  I have them put them on a board by the color table they sit at so I can try and keep them organized for a quick return!  

Stay Tuned for more Monster Projects!!!

Click Here to see the finished product

Zentangle Hands

 Zentangles 

Zentangles seem to be all the rage right now so I decided to jump on the band wagon and try them out for our back to school project! This site really helped me understand what they were all about! https://www.zentangle.com/zentangle-method

 I started off by showing the Students an Activ Board Presentation, showed them some examples and then put them to work!