Friday, May 27, 2011

Tie Dye and everthing else!

tie dye
We tie dyed t-shirts today, using Dharma Trading Company's wonderful kit
tie dye

tie dye

tie dye

shadow play
My husband came to help, and showed Jackie how to do shadow play.
tie dye! tomoko and lorena
Tomoko (Director of CCAE Education Dept) and Lorena (wonderful volunteer) even had a chance to tie dye t-shirts.
gardening
Harvesting for carrots in the garden
sand castle work\
Sand Castle construction
animation 3animation viewing
Last week Loreno showed the kids how to create a storyboard, and then photographed their clay figures and created animated films of the kids work. We watched the films and applauded wildly!
monica and jonathan
Teen volunteer Monica helped teen volunteer Jonathan, with a math problem, I think.
ready set go
We had airplane races
hangin out
And we even had time to hang out. All within 2 hours on a Thursday afternoon!

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Printmaking!

printmaking!

printmaking!

printmaking!
We had a great time printmaking! the kids created their own stamps from sticky back foam and stamped them on watercolor paper. Then they created a second stamp by incising into stryrofoam, and over printed with it on the same paper. And then they made some more prints in various combinations.
printmaking!

printmaking!
This one is mine. The printed watercolor paper on the left,
the incised styrofoam and sticky back foam stamps on the right.

printmaking!

printmaking!

printmaking!

printmaking!

printmaking!

printmaking!

printmaking!

printmaking!

\printmaking!

printmaking!

Mundo Lindo needs your support for the upcoming school year, starting in September 2011. Email me, Jane LaFazio, and I can tell you how you can make a tax-deductible donation. Mundo Lindo is FREE to 4th and 5th grade kids from Escondido Public Schools.