Friday, March 25, 2011

Thursday: making journals

March 24 2011
Using a wide variety of paper we had on hand, a whole punch, yarn, telephone wire and beads, the kids made their own journals today. The pages inside were all different colors and sizes.
March 24 2011

March 24 2011

March 24 2011

March 24 2011

March 24 2011

March 24 2011

March 24 2011

March 24 2011

March 24 2011

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Thursday, March 10

thursday, March 10
We went out to the CCAE garden for inspiration (and  little fresh veggie snacks) Nasturiums are edible.
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thursday, March 10
Then, inside with our harvest, to sketch a design for the paper lanterns we'd be painting.
thursday, March 10

thursday, March 10
Using the sketches as reference, straight to watercolor on the lanterns.
thursday, March 10

thursday, March 10

thursday, March 10
And one could add some Chinese symbols to the lanterns too. This was Mackenzie's practice page.
thursday, March 10

thursday, March 10

thursday, March 10
And since it was such a gorgeous day, we spent 15 minutes outside running around at the end of class.
thursday, March 10

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Building Forts!

building forts together
Using the cereal boxes, shoe boxes, tissue tubes, telephone wire and anything else they could find, the kids worked in teams to build forts. (Leo, Jonathan and Jose had painted all the boxes with gesso, last week.)
building forts together
First a discussion of structure
building forts together
Assembly begins
building forts together
"I'm sure we can work these huge wooden poles somewhere into our fort."
building forts together
Adding details and architectural elements
building forts together
Certainly plenty of materials available.
building forts together
Painting
building forts together
Leo handled any glue gun requests.
building forts together

building forts together

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This would be a cupcake house. Cupcake shaped, cupcake landscape, cupcake doorknob.
building forts together

building forts together

building forts together
Some forts from Tuesday's class
building forts together
and every fort needs a functional canon.
building forts together