Valentine's Inspirational Projects

Well the chinese new year inspiration was such a great project I thought I would try it again with Valentine's day.  I gave my painting/sculpture class the inspiration of Valentine's day.  I said they could do the good, the bad and the ugly of the day.  They could also do this project with paints or in some sort of sculpture.

April

Madison

Paige

Alexis

Carolyn

Logan H.

Kristin

Rylee

Jasmine

Logan O.

Emphasis in Hearts

I found this short lesson on a blog that I am following.  I have started to follow too many, so I can't remember exactly which one and when I saw it, but I liked the idea.  Basically it is having the 5th graders understand how emphasis works in art.  So what we did is trace a heart any way they wanted at least 12 times on a piece of paper.  I then talked about warm and cool color schemes and had them pick one heart anywhere on their paper that had to be different from the rest.

Actually I was just more amazed at how many different heart patterns we got with the simple instructions of trace the heart on the paper 12 times. 

Elissa

Kimi

Dominic

Karlee

Ok so to get better at remember who did what art work I am writing down the names as I take the pictures.  Now as long as they don't get mixed up I hopefully will know who did what.



Quilted Hearts

For a project that seemed simple when I found it on Pinterest.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/dlanzsage/6497286211/in/photostream/  This has been my biggest nightmare this week.  Today's 3rd grade class did a better job than the one the other day, but it still has not been as smooth as I thought it would be.

I am sure I am wrong, but they were having a hard time with concepts like passing paper, and keeping one part of your work and how to fold a square piece of paper in half.  By the way that was step one and I probably should have stopped when the folding of a square became an issue.  But I am not a quitter and so we somehow have finished two classes of these this week.  I have one more to go tomorrow.

Wish me luck.