Artistic Freedom

   I have had a couple people comment or ask me about an earlier post about homemade sketchbooks made out of CEREAL BOXES. I just made some more with my summer school classes and documented how I did it. Hope the pictures help explain the steps better. All props have to go out to my Cooperating Teacher Deb during my student teaching in 2010. These are her idea and I owe her the world. Thanks Deb!   Box full of already cut to size cereal boxes    fold cereal box evenly on one of the side edges, as shown below    Shows the fold along the one side     The inside has the cereal box exterior design    With an already 3 hole punched piece of paper (printer paper), trace the placement of the holes and hole punch the three holes individually with a hand hole-punch.     Three holes are punched and ready to add paper    Add glue to the cover, don't go past the fold line on the left side   Smear the glue with your finger     Add paper (

  Second Grade drawing... WOW After teaching the students about the underwater food chain, we all made our own using pictures from our books and information learned that day in class. This is a second grade drawing of a food chain that starts out with Plankton and ends with a Shark... Wow, what an amazing drawing!!!

2nd Grade           1st Grade   Kindergarten   1st Grade   I am teaching a Oceans Below class with K-2 students in summer school, so naturally I made it into an art class with lots of ocean wisdom. This lesson was about the deep sea's and the fish that live in a place rarely visited by human eyes. We talked about Lantern fish is their awesome light organs. I made tracers for the students to help with proportion. The students used colored pencils to color their fish... we used our imagination to design the fish since they are usually back and rubbery looking. The students loved how the colors popped. 

 Love the color scheme... will require this next year.   Go Packers... A little Wisconsin pride  She might be sucking up........I'll take it. My third grade just finished their never ending weaving project. They started out with the weaving made on a cardboard loom. The weaving was the basic warp string and "under and over" format. When the students all finished their weaving's, we started the clay plaques. The students were all given a small piece of grid paper to help make their design symmetrical. The students started by figuring out the placement of the six holes that would hold the warp strings. Once the holes were drawn on, the students designed one half of their plaque using the squares (ex. four squares to the left, three squares up, and eighteen squares to the right). The students reversed the directions on the other side of the plaque. The students cut out the grid design and I saved them for the next class. The students came ready f