Thank you, Carol!

I had the amazing fortune of helping a former art teacher "clean out her closet." I am so grateful! Here are some pictures to show her some of the amazing things kids made with her donations. 

Olympic Rings with masking tape over wooden loops

Bread tie skiier

Olympic stand 

Gymnast hoops

Gold medal!

Dream catcher 1

2

Op art - two students made opposite panels 

Mom necklace 

Carol gave us the brushes and ink 

Basket weaving

Den-den daiko - Asian pellet drum! 

Abstract wind sculpture 

Weaving with Pom poms 

Sculpture made with "stain glass" lid, paper strips.

Dress forms! (Or future dolls?) The shirt was hand sewn. 

Musical instruments - shakers and drums.

Halfway done basket

paper bowl weaving

Bear card

Hair net hats...

AND WE ARE STILL GOING STRONG!! 

Thank you so much, Carol Hollis!

"Happy" Drawings

I was given a task to find an image for our Grandparent's Day invitation. It needed to be a typical  happy, rainbow, smilie faced kid art image. And I couldn't find one! Apparently I don't keep records the typical... until today. My goal was to get the happiest pictures I could.

Here's what I did with kinderhaus:

Displayed the Renior painting, "Bal du moulin de la Galette",  and talked about the movement (opposite of "still life" that we did last week) and the joyous activities: dancing, eating, being with family and friends.


Next we watched this great little video to learn more about how Renoir painted: http://www.artbabble.org/video/ngadc/pont-neuf-paris-1872-auguste-renoir

When we went off to draw and paint, we played the song "Happy" by Pharrel Williams , which they loved listening to (over and over).

Here are some of the images that were drawn! Hopefully one or two of the dancers will make it on the invite!

(He's tasting a flower...)

(He's drinking hot chocolate...)

I'll share the official invite after the designers choose an image!