POP UP CARDS!

We're down the home stretch for the Holidays!
Most students are creating POP UP Cards in Art. 

Pop ups can be created for any occasion! If you and your child would like to make more over the break, here is a cool link with a variety of pop ups you can make together!

 How to make Pop Up cards!  

For more information on the history and engineering behind pop ups, take a look at...

All about Pop ups! 

 Enjoy your Holiday See you in January! :)

3rd, 4th and 5th graders are creating beautiful Chihuly Inspired sculptures!

Third, Fourth and Fifth grade students are working together to create beautiful translucent sculptures reminiscent of the famous glass blowing artist Dale Chihuly. 

More about Chihuly

 We are using water bottles the students color with Sharpy. 

Then, we cut the water

bottles into spirals and change their shape using a heat gun.

Next, we assemble the strips into analogous color groups that are close to each other on the color wheel.

At Last! Here is an example of two of our fabulous finished works of cooperative art! It took a while, but it was worth it!

Come by the office and take a look!

Dale Chihuly

Something fishy is going on in Second grade!

Second graders created fabolous 3 dimensional construction sculpture fish! 

 After finishing our Eric Carle Animals we used the scraps to make fins.

 As we recycled, we learned about where our fins should go and and how many fins fish really have. 

                fish fins


They really loved this super "sciency" sculpture lesson!

Kindergarten's Crazy 3-D Creatures

Kindergarten used recycled everyday objects to create their own 3D works of art. They were inspired by the illusions created by the street artist David Zinn. 

You can find out more about David Zinn On these You tube pages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5wvFI3D95s&index=1&list=PLrJYPQk6MedTz-7vN-zOsYnC2c4Tm6uHj

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcaquZeORbE&list=PLrJYPQk6MedTz-7vN-zOsYnC2c4Tm6uHj&index=3

Or you can read about David Zinn on his web site.

http://zinnart.com/

 

These are a few of our art works in progress!

We took these while we were lining up and everyone wanted theirs in the picture. :)

Kindergarten's Alexander Calder 3-Dimensional Line Sculptures

 Alexander Calder made Mobiles that move and stabiles that stand still.

 These are our Sculptures inspired by his whimsical works of art!

Here are some sites to explore if you want to learn more about him.

http://www.nurturinglearning.com/artists-and-art-alexander-sandy-calder/  http://www.teachingstars.com/2012/07/19/adventures-in-art-alexander-calder/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Calder

Fourth grades wonderful Frida Kalo symbolic self-portraits!

What are somethings we have finished this 9 weeks?

  Fourth grade created watercolor resist symbolic Self portraits inspired by the Mexican Artist Frida Kalo.

 
 We want to say a Big THANKS to Custer Road United Methodist Church for restocking our water colors for the rest of the year as well! We couldn't make our art this beautiful without you! :)