K: Geometric Shapes

Kindergarten is learning about Geometric Shapes!  The students also learned about different shapes through overlapping and tracing pre-cut cardboard shapes.  When they were done with that, they were to trace over each line with crayon and to paint with water colors at the end.  They turned out beautiful! Here are a few:  Enjoy!

9: Letterboxing

For 9th Grade, I prepared a lesson on whats called Letterboxing.  Maybe you've heard of it.  To sum up the idea, it's basically an art-based scavenger hunt where you get rewarded with other people's art work if you are successful.  People actually do this!  I have personally traveled all over the country and found letterboxes on top of parking garages for a great view, near railroad tracks, in the woods, or by a really good restaurant.

For my class, each person carved 2 Linoleum stamps/prints.  Working collaboratively, each table created a letterbox.  In that letterbox, (a tupperware container) each person contributed 1 stamp, a log book, and a stamp pad.  Each table also created a hiding spot somewhere in the school and then made up a clue using words/pictures/short statements for other tables to look for.

Overall, we had 8 different clues, which means there was 8 different letterboxes.

Here is the link to the actual letterboxing community:  www.atlasquest.com

6: Toilet Paper Food Sculptures

6th Grade:  This project was so much fun!  Due to lack of materials, we got creative and decided to use toilet paper instead of paper mache.  All you have to do is wet the toilet paper, ring it out real good (to decrease the chance of molding) and start shaping it into the form you want.  For bigger pieces, we used molds like cups to wrap the tp around.

Students worked collaboratively to brainstorm different ideas about a restaurant they would have in the future:  What kind of food would it serve?  Would there drinks, deserts, sides?  We talked about different portions and different ethnicities.  They really got into it!  They were to sketch out their drawings on a ''plate'' together first before they were to get materials.

After 2 days of sculpting, (and the weekend to dry) students were to paint their dried out sculptures with acrylic paint with a touch of mog-pog at the end.  It was such a fun project!