Friday, January 25, 2013

working with clay

Clay Lesson
The kids love clay, and don't get much chance to work with it. This is air dry clay, so the pieces will be dry by next week, and then they'll paint them.
Clay Lesson
I showed them how to make a pinch pot and a coil pot~ and talk a bit about where clay comes from and how the Native Americans created dishes and bowls.
Clay Lesson

Clay Lesson


Clay Lesson As usual, Victor created a dinosaur. He's quite the expert on them!Clay Lesson

Clay Lesson
After they made the bowls, to learn the techniques, they created rabbits and cats, and furniture!
Clay Lesson
One group of girls constructed a whole set of bedroom furniture including a giant lava lamp!
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Watercolor Flowers

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watercolor flowers
I brought in artificial flowers for the kids to draw and watercolor.
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Besides learning art skills, the kids make friends with kids from other schools

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Friday, January 18, 2013

Adinkra Symbols~ January 10th

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I've used these Adinkra Symbols from West Africa in many art lessons with the kids. This time they chose 4 symbols, drew them on brown paper (recycled paper bags) then painted them with tempra paints. Thanks Lydia for teaching the lesson, since I was out sick.
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